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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…
Hans-Werner Sinn

The Collateral Damage of Europe’s Rescue

MUNICH – The eurozone is now in its sixth year of crisis – and of efforts by the European Central Bank and the international community to en…
Robin Niblett

Transatlantic Trade-Offs

LONDON – Almost two decades after the idea was first mooted, the United States and the European Union agreed last week to begin negotiating …
Mahmoud Mohieldin

Getting Cities Right

WASHINGTON, DC – The developing world is experiencing rapid urbanization, with the number of city dwellers set to reach four billion in 2030…

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Mehdi Khalaji May 22, 2013

After Ahmadinejad

WASHINGTON, DC – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s preferred successor, Esfandiar Rahim Mashai, will not be running in the June 14 ele…
Tony Rothman May 22, 2013

Apocalypse Not Now

PRINCETON – Recently, physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) – the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, located near Geneva at…
Christopher R. Hill May 21, 2013

Managing Syria’s Meltdown

DENVER – As Russian and American diplomats prepare for a Syrian peace conference, the Middle East is experiencing convulsions not seen since…
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 …
Bernard Haykel May 14, 2013

Syria’s Sectarian Stalemate

PRINCETON – What began in Syria as a revolt against an oppressive regime has evolved into a sectarian civil war and, more recently, into a p…
Fiorello Provera May 13, 2013

The Endangered Arab Christian

BRUSSELS – The recent abductions of Syriac Orthodox Archbishop Yohanna Ibrahim and his Greek Orthodox counterpart, Paul Yazigi, reflect not …
Ike Okonta Apr. 30, 2013

Nigeria’s Poverty-Powered Insurgency

LAGOS – Nigerian security forces recently razed a northeastern fishing village, leaving almost 200 people dead and destroying some 2,000 hom…
Nawaf Obaid Apr. 25, 2013

The Collapsing Arab State

BOSTON – The so-called Arab Spring generated a wave of hope among those fighting or advocating for democratization of the Arab world’s autho…
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…
Shashi Tharoor Apr. 19, 2013

Bangladesh’s Quest for Justice

NEW DELHI – The sea of humanity besieging the Shahbag area in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, for the last two months, has had an unusual de…

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