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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…
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…
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It isn’t new news that America has consistently been unable to ratify UN treaties. Even UN treaties that would largely benefit the United States and American companies, even…