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12 August 2015
Karl T. Muth explores how we should train people who need legal knowledge but do not intend to become lawyers. Each year, thousands of people graduate from programmes designed to…
09 August 2015
The idea has taken hold that Russia and the West are locked into a new period of information warfare, a new Cold War, that each side must do its best to win. Victory for Russia…
03 August 2015
Karl Muth explores the world of ‘U visas’ and argues they could have a wider application than many think. There is a special visa that most people have never heard of…
23 July 2015
Karl Muth on discusses his cynicism about claims that foreign advisors, such as himself, can spur development. I struggle with the concept of developed countries “…
16 June 2015
Karl Muth argues that future space races should not be the sole preserve of government.  Like many nerds born in the 1980’s, I attended Space Camp. Part summer program, part…
21 May 2015
Karl T. Muth offers a suggestion to invert how we choose and award academic scholarships in an increasingly competitive education market. One of the things economics and finance…
18 May 2015
In rich countries, the biggest causes of death are strokes, heart attacks and cancer, accounting for more than two-thirds of all deaths. But for the poorer world, people often…
14 May 2015
Cornelius Adebahr argues interest based cooperation between the West and Iran can and should go further, regardless of nuclear agreement. For some, it’s the ultimate…
13 May 2015
Ending extreme poverty is likely to be one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. So it is a good idea to figure out what that entails. And it turns out that it’s…
08 May 2015
Ebola has gotten much of the attention in 2014, and it has killed about 8,000 people. Over the same period of time, however, about 4 million people died from AIDS, tuberculosis (…