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Paul R. Ehrlich

The Food Threat to Human Civilization

PALO ALTO – Humanity faces a growing complex of serious, highly interconnected environmental problems, including much-discussed challenges l…
Jaswant Singh

The Road to Asian Unity

NEW DELHI – Asia’s lack of institutions to ameliorate regional tensions is often lamented. But greater Asian unity may be arising by the bac…
Haruhiko Kuroda

India’s Growth Crossroads

MANILA – As the slowdown in the world’s major industrial economies drags on, growth in developing Asia is being affected. A serious burden w…
Howard Davies

Financial Regulators’ Global Variety Show

PARIS – In the early phases of the financial crisis, it was fashionable to argue that the United States’ system of regulation needed a funda…

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Liah Greenfeld May 17, 2013

Nationalism, Madness, and Terrorism

BOSTON – If we want to understand what drove the Boston Marathon bombing suspects, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, to terrorism, the answer …
Christopher Lane May 14, 2013

The Distortion of Grief

CHICAGO – How long does it take to mourn the death of a loved one? The question is peculiar, even mildly offensive. Recovery from bereavemen…
Peter Singer May 9, 2013

Why Pay More?

PRINCETON – When Radosław Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, went to Ukraine for talks last month, his Ukrainian counterparts reportedly l…
Joseph E. Stiglitz May 6, 2013

Lives versus Profits

NEW YORK – The United States Supreme Court recently began deliberations in a case that highlights a deeply problematic issue concerning inte…
Donna Dickenson May 6, 2013

DNA at 60

LONDON – On April 25, 1953, Francis Crick and James Watson published a one-page paper that many believed would revolutionize biological rese…
Anne-Marie Slaughter Apr. 29, 2013

The Message from Boston

PRINCETON – America has grown up. Public reaction to the Boston Marathon bombings and the identity of the perpetrators reveals a very differ…
Dominique Moisi Apr. 26, 2013

The Triumph of Fear

PARIS – In May 1981, Pope John Paul II survived an assassination attempt. Thirty years later, Osama bin Laden was killed by United States Sp…
Jean-Jacques Cassiman Apr. 26, 2013

Tempering the Genetic Revolution

LEUVEN – We may not be fully aware of it, but future generations will likely consider our era truly historic. Never before has mankind been …
Parag Khanna Apr. 24, 2013

Hybrid Humans

SINGAPORE – The election of a new pope always sparks debate about the tension between tradition and modernity in the Catholic Church. Perhap…
Nina L. Khrushcheva Apr. 24, 2013

The Boston Paradox

MOSCOW – Whose fault is it that the Boston Marathon was bombed? Is Russia to blame for 250 years of trying to incorporate the Muslim North C…

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