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The intriguing maps that reveal alternate histories

2020-11-19

What if major elections, wars and events had turned out differently? Samuel Arbesman explores the detail and delights of maps that plot alternative worlds to our own.

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Is America’s Global Prestige Growing, Shrinking, or about the Same?

2020-10-01

It appears that the survey was delayed bringing the results out closer to the US presidential election to impact them.

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Preventing an Emerging-Market Meltdown

2020-06-11

Emerging markets today account for more than two-fifths of global GDP measured at market exchange rates, and nearly three-fifths after adjusting for differences in purchasing power.

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Welcome to the Post-Virus World

2020-04-01

Just two months ago, most people believed that random mass death no longer stalked the Earth. Reconciling ourselves with the reality that it does clarifies much, including how to....

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Welcome to the Post-Virus World

2020-04-01

Just two months ago, most people believed that random mass death no longer stalked the Earth. Reconciling ourselves with the reality that it does clarifies much, including how to....

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Politics and the Pandemic

2020-03-20

In an interview, Amir Afkhami explains what Covid-19 may mean for Iran, and the world.

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Policy Action for a Healthy Global Economy

2020-03-18

The case for a coordinated and synchronized global fiscal stimulus is becoming stronger by the hour.

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Plagued by Trumpism

2020-03-12

The COVID-19 crisis is rich in lessons, especially for the United States. One takeaway is that viruses do not carry passports; in fact, they don’t observe national borders – or nationalist rhetoric – at all.

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Epidemics Reveal the Truth About the Societies They Hit

2020-03-02

A nations response to disaster speaks to its strengths and to its dysfunctions.

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Is the 21st Century the Chinese Century – or not?

2019-09-16

It has become common for people to refer to the 21st Century as the Chinese Century, much as many called the 20th Century as the American Century.

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What would happen if all the world’s trees disappeared?

2019-09-15

As the Amazon fires continue to burn, Rachel Nuwer asks: how dependent are we on the survival of forests?

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Power and Interdependence in the Trump Era

2019-07-07

US President Donald Trump has been accused of weaponizing economic globalization. Sanctions, tariffs, and the restriction of access to dollars have been major instruments of his foreign policy, and he has been unconstrained by allies, institutions, or rul

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RUSSIA: WORLD NO LONGER TRUSTS U.S. TO LEAD

2019-04-13

ITS TIME OTHERS STEP IN TO STOP BLACKMAIL AND PRESSURE

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Feeding the Ten Billion

2019-02-06

Our diets are becoming less healthy, and global food production is increasingly unsustainable. A new report suggests that the planet can sustainably provide a healthy diet for ten billion people in the future...

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$250 Trillion in Debt: the World’s Post-Lehman Legacy

2018-10-06

Governments are largely responsible for the borrowing binge, with their debt growing not just nominally...

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The Exceptionalism of American Higher Education

2018-05-21

American universities and colleges emerged as dominant players in the global ecology of higher education, a dominance that continues to this day

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The Return of a Forgotten Killer

2018-02-22

Tuberculosis was one of the worlds greatest preoccupations. Consumption, as it was known, killed indiscriminately

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Blockchains Will Change the Way the World Votes

2018-02-02

The extra costs of a recount may be conscionable, but the lasting social cleavages spurred from days of indecision in tense electoral circumstances are not

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10 Humanitarian Crises To Look Out For In 2018

2018-01-08

From the Rohingya to South Sudan, hurricanes to famine, 2017 was full of disasters and crises. But 2018 is shaping up to be even worse. Here is why.

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Honest Politicians Won't Fix Corruption

2017-12-13

Around the world, people are fed up with venal politicians. But they may be looking for the wrong solution.

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Is Bitcoin the Most Obvious Bubble Ever?

2017-12-11

The cryptocurrency is almost certainly due for a major correction. But its long-term value remains a mystery

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Economic Growth Is No Longer Enough

2017-10-28

As new technologies subject the world’s economies to massive structural change, wages are no longer playing the central redistributive role they once did

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