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I write this in London, but this blog post covers a criticism intertwined with the recent history of the NRA, or National Rifle Association, a membership advocacy group in the…
Karl Muth offers his opinion on the growing debate around income inequality.
There’s a big to-do about income inequality in the U.S. and U.K.
Let’s establish a few things up-front…
For those who tuned in for yet another TRIPS rant about how people are dying from AIDS in Africa because of American patent laws, you can tune out now. That’s not the point…
Alex Cobham and Andy Sumner bring us up to date on the techie-but-important debate over how to measure inequality.
It’s about six months since we triggered a good wonk-tastic…
For those who have not recently read Shelley’s “The Revolt of Islam,” a poem written in 1817, I recommend it. I first read the poem, composed in a dozen cantos,…
Cornelius Adebahr sounds a note of caution for those hoping to use history as analogy in the case of Syria.
Let’s start with the banalities: Syria is not Iraq, Obama is not…
Karl Muth explains why recycling the old is far from a new idea.
In 2004, Chrysler launched the 300C saloon (which did not, unlike its 1960’s predecessors, have 300…
Brian Stoddart examines the possible directions of the emerging economic powerhouse and what they may mean for onlookers.
Now that Manmohan Singh’s Congress-led United Progressive…
I remember, and fondly, walking with my mother from the old promenade in Wan Chai westward toward King George V Park. It is a fascinating walk that millions of people have taken,…
Martha Molfetas questions the wisdom of the oil industry’s current search for exploitable reserves.
After turmoil hit Somalia in 1991, oil firms, aid groups, and even embassies…