Comment & Opinion - Columnists Archives

16 March 2015
…and it would not change much, neither to the West’s overall relationship with the country nor to Tehran’s regional role. That is, of course, too simplistic a view on what would…
26 February 2015
The latest research series from The Post-2015 Consensus' asks how we can feed the over 800 million people who go to bed hungry every night. The world faces many problems, and…
19 February 2015
Karl Muth explores the seasonal determinants of violence in Chicago. My friend Tom Kirk and I spent some time exploring Chicago two summers ago. At the time, we both had recent…
16 February 2015
The thirteenth research series from The Post-2015 Consensus' asks how we can improve women’s health and save more than 14m children from dying before 2030? We have…
11 February 2015
Karl Muth on the importance of measuring the unmeasurable. Conceptual measurement is enormously important in public policy. Many policy decisions are made on the basis of things…
09 February 2015
The twelfth research series from The Post-2015 Consensus' is focused on Infrastructure targets for the post-2015 development agenda. Professor Emmanuelle Auriol and Alexia Lee…
05 February 2015
The Post-2015 Consensus' eleventh set of papers explore the value of gender equality, and what it may mean for society at large. The Copenhagen Consensus Center has just…
04 February 2015
When does poverty end for an individual or country? The UN debate on ending global poverty and the forthcoming sustainable development goals has tended to focus on very poor…
28 January 2015
Karl Muth outlines why hip-hop artists should seriously consider unionizing, but probably won’t. I’ve been a fan of hip-hop, and particularly West Coast hip-hop, for a…
23 January 2015
Cornelius Adebahr unpicks Federica Mogherini’s return to Washington in the shadow of Russia. Closing in on the first 100 days in office, Federica Mogherini, embarked on her first…