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The Economists Who Stole Christmas

The Economists Who Stole Christmas

How might opposing schools of economic thought — from neoclassical and Keynesian to Libertarian and Marxist, view Christmas presents…
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Why Has Latin America Turned Away from the Left?

Why Has Latin America Turned Away from the Left?

In Argentina and Brazil, one cannot understand recent political changes without reference to the corrupt antics of populist and…
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Racing the Machine

Racing the Machine

Economists have always believed that previous waves of job destruction led to an equilibrium between supply and demand in the labor market…
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Has Interpol Become a Tool of Oppression?

Has Interpol Become a Tool of Oppression?

Journalists are increasingly being targeted by Interpol arrest notices, as authoritarian regimes abuse a system meant to curb cross-border…
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Universal Education’s Moment of Truth

Universal Education’s Moment of Truth

Article 26 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that every child should have access to free primary education. Yet, 69 years…
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The EU Must Recognize the Palestinian State

The EU Must Recognize the Palestinian State

At this point, the best way to encourage Israelis and Palestinians to return to the negotiating table is to work to level the playing…
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A Climate Cure Worse than the Disease

A Climate Cure Worse than the Disease

The climate policies lauded in Paris at the One Planet Summit this month are essentially high-cost, low-effect gestures. While the EU will…
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The Meaty Side of Climate Change

The Meaty Side of Climate Change

“Carbon majors,” like big oil and gas companies, have long been the focus of efforts to curb climate change and stem rising temperatures…
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Seeing Through Big Tobacco’s Smokescreen

Seeing Through Big Tobacco’s Smokescreen

Legal setbacks in the US have forced the tobacco industry to concede that its products are harmful, and that for decades cigarette…
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Making the Most of the Brexit Deal

Making the Most of the Brexit Deal

A chaotic Brexit, in which key questions about the relationship between the UK and the EU are left unanswered, may be avoided, but severe…
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Africa’s Must-Do Decade

Africa’s Must-Do Decade

In recent decades, some developing countries — mainly in Asia — have managed to industrialize. For African countries to achieve sustainable…
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Inequality in the Twenty-First Century

Inequality in the Twenty-First Century

As inequality continues to deepen worldwide, we do not have the luxury of sticking to the status quo. Unless we confront the inequality…
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The Holy Grail of Genetic Engineering

The Holy Grail of Genetic Engineering

CRISPR-Cas — a gene-editing technique that is far more precise and efficient than any that has come before it — is poised to change the…
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Two Myths About Automation

Two Myths About Automation

While many people believe that technological progress and job destruction are accelerating dramatically, there is no evidence of either…
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India’s Culture War Comes to Bollywood

India’s Culture War Comes to Bollywood

The Bollywood film Padmavati has inspired heated debate, hysterical threats of violence, and a ban in four states governed by the ruling…
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The Myth of a Fossil Fuel Phase-Out

The Myth of a Fossil Fuel Phase-Out

How we use energy is a hot topic for a warming world, and fears of pollution and resource strain have produced an arms race of energy…
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Gender Equity for Africa’s Scientists

Gender Equity for Africa’s Scientists

The next Einstein could be an African woman, but Africa’s gender gap in science education and jobs means the world may never know. To…
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The High Cost of Denying Class War

The High Cost of Denying Class War

The rise of populism on both sides of the Atlantic is being investigated psychoanalytically, culturally, anthropologically, aesthetically…
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Rage Against the Machine?

Rage Against the Machine?

Almost every aspect of our economies will be transformed by automation in the coming years. But history and economic theory suggest that…
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A Better British Story

A Better British Story

Despite all of the doom and gloom over the United Kingdom’s impending withdrawal from the European Union, key manufacturing indicators are…
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Learning from Russia’s Other Media War

Learning from Russia’s Other Media War

With the global proliferation of fake news threatening democratic institutions, “media literacy” training is more important than ever…
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