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Jane Otai, a development worker in Kenya, leads the Empowered Girls Initiative, which advocates for adolescent mothers’ rights to education, health care, and employment.

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  1. Africa’s Domestic-Violence Epidemic
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    Africa’s Domestic-Violence Epidemic

    Jun 9, 2022 Tijani Salami & Jane Otai call attention to a widespread but underreported problem that demands a whole-of-society response.

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    Lawless State Capitalism Is No Answer to China’s Rise

    Curtis J. Milhaupt & Angela Huyue Zhang

    Invoking national security and the economic rivalry with China, the Trump administration is pursuing legally dubious interventions and control of private industry, with potentially high costs for US dynamism. Like the panic over Japan's rise in the 1980s, the administration's response is unwarranted and counterproductive.

     explain why the US administration's legally dubious interventions into private markets are unlikely to end well.
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    Trump’s Dangerous Disregard for International Justice

    Ruti Teitel warns that the US administration’s hostility to the rule of law represents a grave threat to peace.
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    The First AI Government Minister

    Daniel Innerarity & Fabrizio Tassinari consider the implications of Albania's premier appointing a chatbot to his cabinet.
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    Trump the Useful Idiot

    Nina L. Khrushcheva sees in the US president a Soviet-era archetype, enabling and emboldening authoritarian bad actors.
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    Developing Countries Are Paying Too Much to Borrow

    Ishac Diwan & Vera Songwe point to features of the global financial architecture that are doing more harm than good.
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    How Trump Could Ensure His Legacy as a Peacemaker

    David Gross, et al. explain how to reduce the risk of nuclear conflict at a time when the risks of one are rising.
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    India’s Reckoning With Its Dangerous Neighborhood

    Nirupama Rao

    While the recent eruption of unrest in Nepal is not uncommon for a region that remains in perpetual crisis, it does represent a dangerous new trend. For India, the challenge is not only to maintain strategic autonomy, but to promote its vision of a more inclusive, rules-based, and connected South and Southeast Asia.

     explains why the country is increasingly anxious about political instability in neighboring countries.
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    How Off-Grid Solar Can Transform an Economy

    Ibrahim Matola explains how distributed renewable energy technologies are driving growth in Malawi.
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    Why Is Everyone So Self-Righteous?

    Steven Sloman points out that most people view issues through the lens of sacred values, not objective analysis of outcomes.

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