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Alex Pentland

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Alex Pentland is Professor of Media Arts and Sciences, and Director of the Media Lab Entrepreneurship Program, at MIT Media Lab. He is the author of Social Physics: Lessons from a New Science.

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Living Big Data
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Living Big Data

May 27, 2014 Alex Pentland imagines communities guided by rich streams of real-time information.

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How the IMF Can Battle Gradual Irrelevance
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How the IMF Can Battle Gradual Irrelevance

Mohamed A. El-Erian

These days, the International Monetary Fund’s policy recommendations – especially as they pertain to the advanced economies – have little impact. Although this is partly a consequence of more inward-looking national politics in richer countries, the Fund itself is not blameless.

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Crime and Excessive Punishment in Tunisia
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Crime and Excessive Punishment in Tunisia

Rim Dhaouadi urges policymakers to reform the country's overly repressive criminal justice system.

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Reversing the Death of Venice
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Reversing the Death of Venice

Carlo Ratti says that the city must rebuild its society before it can protect its buildings from rising sea levels.

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Is Sri Lanka the Next Argentina?
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Is Sri Lanka the Next Argentina?

Arvind Subramanian questions whether the country’s newly elected president can prevent further macroeconomic instability.

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Is the War on Terror Over?

Is the War on Terror Over?

Karen Greenberg & Elmira Bayrasli discuss the global war on terror and US President Donald Trump’s role in ending it.

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Building a Euro-Japanese Alliance of Hope
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Building a Euro-Japanese Alliance of Hope

Anders Fogh Rasmussen identifies four areas in which closer bilateral ties can bolster democracy and the rule of law.

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The Right to Be Seen
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The Right to Be Seen

Anne-Marie Slaughter & Yuliya Panfil suggest how excluded groups can use their digital data to access basic services and advance their own goals.

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The Decline and Fall of William Barr
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The Decline and Fall of William Barr

Kent Harrington thinks the US attorney general is committed to doing President Donald Trump's bidding, no matter what.

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