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    The Competitive Edge of Doing Good

    Peter Singer explains why companies that donate 100% of their profits to effective charities often end up doing very well.
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    Do Israelis and Palestinians Inhabit the Same World?

    Anne-Marie Slaughter envisions a diplomatic approach that does not require each side to adopt the other's perspective.
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    The Culture War at Harvard and Beyond

    Ian Buruma thinks Claudine Gay’s downfall reveals something important about changed perceptions of Jews.
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    Why Are So Many Young Chinese Depressed?

    Nancy Qian identifies the main structural factors driving widespread youth unemployment and loneliness.
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    How a Man’s World Systematically Neglects Women

    Navika Mehta highlights the high costs of not accounting explicitly for both sexes in research, design, and policymaking.
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    An Opening in the Fight to Educate Afghan Girls

    Gordon Brown & Yasmine Sherif urge leaders to establish a communication channel with Taliban officials who support reversing the school ban.
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    Uganda’s Anti-Gay Crusade

    Pepe Julian Onziema condemns the Anti-Homosexuality Act for violating human rights and perpetuating colonial legacies.
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    The Google Trial’s Dangerous Secrecy

    Karina Montoya warns that the tech behemoth’s success in limiting public access to legal proceedings threatens press freedom.
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    The Lonesome Death of Alexei Navalny

    Nina L. Khrushcheva

    From leading protests against the rigged parliamentary elections of 2011 to investigating the corruption of Russia’s elites to seeking to unseat Presdient Vladimir Putin, Alexei Navalny was relentless in his nearly two-decade-long campaign against corruption in and around the Kremlin. Putin responded as any Russian despot would.

     has no doubt that, directly or indirectly, it was the Kremlin that killed the imprisoned opposition leader.
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    America’s Steel Madness

    Anne O. Krueger explains why opposition to Nippon Steel's acquisition of US Steel is deeply misguided.
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    Can Marwan Barghouti Be the Palestinian Nelson Mandela?

    Daoud Kuttab thinks the imprisoned Fatah leader could be the key to reviving the two-state solution.
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    What Corporations Need to Know About Public Health

    Tom Achoki describes a framework for understanding health systems that should guide investment and interventions.
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    What Was Capitalism?

    James Livingston asks whether those at the commanding heights of today's economy are steering us toward feudalism or fatuousness.
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    Reducing Plastic Pollution Requires Local Remedies

    Mirei Endara de Heras explains why on-the-ground initiatives to remove waste must complement top-down efforts to curb production.
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    The Case for Regulating Generative AI Through Common Law

    S. Alex Yang & Angela Huyue Zhang propose a regulatory framework that is both adaptable and tailored to specific contexts.
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    Why Is the Maldives Spurning India?

    Shashi Tharoor worries that the island nation is becoming a Chinese client and nurturing Islamist radicalism.
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    Pakistan’s Middle-Class Rage Against Military Rule

    Adeel Malik explains how economic dissatisfaction fueled the electoral backlash against the country’s leadership.

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