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.
detailsIt appears that the survey was delayed bringing the results out closer to the US presidential election to impact them.
detailsEmerging 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.
detailsJust 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....
detailsJust 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....
detailsIn an interview, Amir Afkhami explains what Covid-19 may mean for Iran, and the world.
detailsThe case for a coordinated and synchronized global fiscal stimulus is becoming stronger by the hour.
detailsThe 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.
detailsA nations response to disaster speaks to its strengths and to its dysfunctions.
detailsIt 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.
detailsAs the Amazon fires continue to burn, Rachel Nuwer asks: how dependent are we on the survival of forests?
detailsUS 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
detailsITS TIME OTHERS STEP IN TO STOP BLACKMAIL AND PRESSURE
detailsOur 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...
detailsGovernments are largely responsible for the borrowing binge, with their debt growing not just nominally...
detailsAmerican universities and colleges emerged as dominant players in the global ecology of higher education, a dominance that continues to this day
detailsTuberculosis was one of the worlds greatest preoccupations. Consumption, as it was known, killed indiscriminately
detailsThe extra costs of a recount may be conscionable, but the lasting social cleavages spurred from days of indecision in tense electoral circumstances are not
detailsFrom 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.
detailsAround the world, people are fed up with venal politicians. But they may be looking for the wrong solution.
detailsThe cryptocurrency is almost certainly due for a major correction. But its long-term value remains a mystery
detailsAs 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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