Opinion
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A Wiser America
NEW YORK – When America absorbed the bombings at the Boston Marathon, what was striking was what did not happen.…
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The World Without America
NEW YORK – Let me posit a radical idea: The most critical threat facing the United States now and for…
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Tempering the Genetic Revolution
LEUVEN – We may not be fully aware of it, but future generations will likely consider our era truly historic.…
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When Is Government Debt Risky?
BERKELEY – A government that does not tax sufficiently to cover its spending will eventually run into all manner of…
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Foresight Is The Lead That Leader Has
I was trying to help a small group of boys-all of them Liberians-that were into gospel music in Nigeria and…
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Lending in the Dark
HONG KONG – The proliferation of China’s opaque, loosely regulated (or unregulated) shadow-banking system has been raising fears of possible…
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Vaccination’s Lifetime of Blessings
CAPE TOWN – A world in which our children and their children grow up free from the threat of polio…
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Mentoring Africa’s Entrepreneurs
Experience, we have been told, is the best teacher. Sadly, experience really is the teacher of fools. I have often…
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Suffer the Children, Suffer the Country
NEW YORK – Children are every country’s most vital resource. This is true not just morally, but also economically. Investing…
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Cartography’s New Golden Age
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – Noé Diakubama, an emigrant from the Democratic Republic of Congo who now lives in Paris, is…
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