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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…
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…
Anne-Marie Slaughter

The Coming Atlantic Century

PRINCETON – The United States is rising; Europe is stabilizing; and both are moving closer together. That was the principal message earlier …
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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Shailaja Chandra Apr. 1, 2013

India’s Data of Discrimination

NEW DELHI – Last December’s fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old woman in New Delhi triggered an unprecedented public outcry in India. Tens of t…
Shaukat Aziz Mar. 1, 2013

Emerging Markets’ Feminine Future

LONDON – According to the United Nations, 70% of women worldwide experience violence in their lifetime. The World Bank adds that women aged …
Moha Ennaji Feb. 28, 2013

Arab Women’s Unfinished Revolution

FEZ – Though women across the Middle East participated actively in the Arab Spring protests that began in late 2010, they remain second-clas…
Naomi Wolf Feb. 28, 2013

Sheryl Sandberg’s Good Fight

NEW YORK – Is it always offensive to advise women to change something about themselves in order to ensure that they can achieve their goals?…
George A. Papandreou, Ouafa Hajji Jan. 31, 2013

Ending the War Against Women

ATHENS – On Valentine’s Day, countless couples will celebrate romance by candlelight. On the same day, one billion women and men worldwide w…
Yuriko Koike Jan. 28, 2013

Farewell Hillary, For Now

TOKYO – F. Scott Fitzgerald famously said that “there are no second acts in American lives.” Hillary Clinton’s stunning (and, I trust, unfin…
Jaswant Singh Jan. 11, 2013

India’s Outrage

NEW DELHI – Last year ended for India on a note of public outrage that has burdened the country with anger, frustration, and pessimism. The …
Naomi Wolf Dec. 31, 2012

Ending India’s Rape Culture

NEW YORK – The crime seems incomprehensible. A 23-year-old physiotherapy student is dead, 12 days after having been raped for more than an h…
Shashi Tharoor Dec. 13, 2012

A World of Schoolgirls

NEW DELHI – One of the more difficult questions I found myself being asked when I was a United Nations under-secretary-general, especially w…
Naomi Wolf Nov. 30, 2012

A Death in Galway

NEW YORK – The case of Savita Halappanavar, a 31-year-old dentist from India who had moved, with her husband, to Ireland, continues to rever…

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