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Margaret Chan

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Margaret Chan is Director-General of the World Health Organization.

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Reducing Speed to Save Lives
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Reducing Speed to Save Lives

May 9, 2017 Margaret Chan & Michael Bloomberg show how municipal and national governments can improve road safety to reduce preventable deaths.

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Sustaining Women
Jon Krause

Sustaining Women

Jun 12, 2012 Michelle Bachelet, et al.

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Poverty’s Cancer
Paul Lachine

Poverty’s Cancer

Feb 21, 2011 Yukiya Amano & Margaret Chan

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Beyond Pandemics
John Overmyer

Beyond Pandemics

Jun 15, 2009 Ban Ki-moon & Margaret Chan

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Austria and the Plot Against Europe
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Austria and the Plot Against Europe

Charles Tannock

The collapse of Austria’s government has revealed how extensive Russian manipulation of Europe's politics has become. The question every European democrat of the left, right, and center must now ask is whether the true scope and scale of the political, moral, and material corruption of Europe’s far-right parties has been exposed in time.

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Voter Turnout Will Decide Europe’s Fate
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Voter Turnout Will Decide Europe’s Fate

Yves Leterme & Sam van der Staak show how populists can exploit declining participation to succeed in this month's European Parliament election.

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The Global Consequences of a Sino-American Cold War
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The Global Consequences of a Sino-American Cold War

Nouriel Roubini

What started as a trade war between the United States and China is quickly escalating into a death match for global economic, technological, and military dominance. If the two countries' leaders cannot manage the defining relationship of the twenty-first century responsibly, the entire world will bear the costs of their failure.

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Can Ramaphosa Do It?
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Can Ramaphosa Do It?

Andrew Donaldson says South Africa's new government must generate more private investment to stimulate growth.

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Europe’s Only Decision
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Europe’s Only Decision

Carl Bildt calls on leaders to finalize a new strategic agenda, from which all policy and personnel matters must follow.

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The Resilience of the Arab World’s Pouvoir
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The Resilience of the Arab World’s Pouvoir

Shlomo Ben-Ami shows why the forces pushing for political change in Algeria and Sudan could go the way of their predecessors.

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A Greek Canary in a Global Goldmine
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A Greek Canary in a Global Goldmine

Yanis Varoufakis warns that the country's surging bond and equity markets could foreshadow a global disaster.

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It’s Cheaper to Talk than to Cut Emissions
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It’s Cheaper to Talk than to Cut Emissions

Bjørn Lomborg argues that voters are unwilling to pay the costs of meeting their governments' lofty climate-change targets.

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