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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…
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 …
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…

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David Berry Jun. 19, 2013

Fixing the Innovation Supply Chain

CAMBRIDGE – As a graduate student at MIT, I had the opportunity to work with Professors Robert Langer and Ram Sasisekharan in an environment…
Bjørn Lomborg Jun. 17, 2013

The Limits to Panic

COPENHAGEN – We often hear how the world as we know it will end, usually through ecological collapse. Indeed, more than 40 years after the C…
Kandeh K. Yumkella Jun. 11, 2013

The Power of the Prize

VIENNA – The world faces two looming, interconnected energy challenges: how to provide reliable access to modern energy services to the one …
Parag Khanna May 23, 2013

The Human City

SINGAPORE – The tangled web of international organizations that constitutes global governance has become so remote and ineffective that few …
Richard Cooper, Richard Dobbs May 14, 2013

China’s E-Tail Revolution

SHANGHAI – When you think about centers of technological innovation, Silicon Valley, Seattle, and Seoul are probably the first places that c…
Beth Cardier, Beth Cardier May 8, 2013

The Curing Machine

VIRGINIA BEACH – Last year, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded for a discovery that took 44 years to develop, and involved two differen…
Chris Clearfield, András Tilcsik May 7, 2013

A Hacker’s Market?

NEW YORK – Never in the history of written communication could 140 characters have the impact that they can have now. Two weeks ago, after g…
Esther Dyson Apr. 25, 2013

Exceptions Become the Rule

NEW YORK – Long ago, I worked as an analyst on Wall Street. The first company that I analyzed was Federal Express, which at the time had not…
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…
Brian McClendon Apr. 18, 2013

Cartography’s New Golden Age

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIFORNIA – Noé Diakubama, an emigrant from the Democratic Republic of Congo who now lives in Paris, is one of this century’…

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