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Karl Muth calls on Obama to make more of the positive signals coming from the American economy. When will Obama realise he's a boom time president? President Obama is…

Karl Muth lays out a plan for tackling kleptocracy. The riches of Africa have been plundered, and are being plundered. One can argue about whether the kleptocrats on the continent…

Karl Muth outlines what global collective action to tackle climate change might look like, via giant fighting robots and sea monsters. I’m not much of an environmentalist.…

Brian Stoddart argues that as India increasingly moves into the global mainstream its fast approaching elections matter inside and out (this post first appeared in April 2013).…

Karl Muth asks what we can learn from the seemingly infinite popularity of the dystopian militarised city-state: Is its popularity evidence of popular concern for civil liberties…

Cornelius Adebahr argues that finding a comprehensive agreement on Iran’s nuclear program would be a much-needed counterpoint to the recent disregard of international norms and…

Karl Muth reveals another side to the creator of the Gini coefficient. Corrado Gini was a statistician who came up with something many are familiar with today, his eponymous…

Martha Molfetas asks - why is Russia hungry for Crimea in the first place? This past month, Ukraine has undergone a metamorphosis, from protest and violence to creating a new…

We hear the argument over and over again: We need these rules not for law-abiding citizens (and non-citizens) but for people who will acquire and then misuse these items. It is a…

Karl Muth argues that the ‘resource curse’ rests on some questionable assumptions. There is a popular narrative told each year in economics, public policy,…