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The concept of city corporation insolvency (known is municipal bankruptcy in America) is not a new one; it traces its roots back to the financial failure of Roman periphery towns…
Cornelius Adebahr argues that economic decline rather than the nuclear issue determine life in Tehran on the eve of the Persian year 1392. But a ‘perception gap’ between Iran and…
What do Obama and Bono have in common?
Both have proposed that the world should seek to end extreme poverty over the next twenty years or so.
Obama said so in his annual state of…
When will our resource use exceed our global capacity for warming? The last year alone has seen extreme weather events ranging from droughts and derechos, to severe floods and…
Sixty years ago this month, the first version of Donald Ray Cressey’s landmark treatise on embezzlement was published in Illinois, a state with a colourful history of theft,…
Karl Muth argues that the Arab Springs hold lessons for the debates over gun ownership that have recently animated American politics.
As a consistent advocate and supporter of…
I argue that there is a movement toward using social, scientific, military, and other public and private resources to advocate in favour of sameness. This is different from…
In the current round of the never-ending grind that is now international cricket, there are strong reminders that the game, like sport generally, carries strong social and…
There is a radically different context for international aid today than in the past – a context characterised by drastically fewer poor countries and an overwhelming concentration…
The Forbes 400 is a powerful thing. It is an annual list of the wealthiest Americans by net worth and carries in American culture far more weight than the Sunday Times…