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Tuesday 01/January/2019 14:49 PM

Nature vs. infrastructure

In November 2017, scientists working in Sumatra, Indonesia, made an exciting announcement: they had discovered a new species of orangutan, bringing to seven...

Monday 31/December/2018 14:42 PM

America first puts Syria last

No Middle East conflict is as complex as the one raging in Syria. The fight involves a government that is antithetical to Western values and an extremist...

Monday 31/December/2018 14:40 PM

Why is the Fed still raising interest rates?

Earlier this month, the US Federal Reserve’s policy-setting Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) voted unanimously to increase the short-term interest...

Monday 31/December/2018 14:38 PM

The sum of all Brexit fears

Day after day, week after week, most British citizens think that the turmoil over their country’s proposed exit from the European Union cannot get any...

Monday 31/December/2018 14:35 PM

Carbon taxes at the barricades

For governments everywhere, the shadow of the gilets jaunes (“yellow vests”), whose protests wracked France for several Saturdays before Christmas, now...

Sunday 30/December/2018 14:47 PM

Is cancelling Brexit now inevitable?

In times of political turmoil, events can move from impossible to inevitable without even passing through improbable. In early 2016, the idea of Britain...

Sunday 30/December/2018 14:45 PM

The center left and globalization

Popular uprisings across France are threatening to shatter the hope that so many had placed in French President Emmanuel Macron after his election in May...

Sunday 30/December/2018 14:42 PM

Politics, economics, and carbon in 2019

For many of the world’s economies, financial markets, heads of government, and carbon policies, 2018 did not end well. The scars of the global financial...

Sunday 30/December/2018 14:30 PM

China’s myth-busting miracle

Forty years ago, on December 29, 1978, the 11th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China released the official communiqué from its third plenary...