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How much more crowded is our planet going to get? Will we keep on expanding indefinitely, or are we approaching the upper limit? Can the planet sustain ten billion people?
U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron wants private companies, voluntary groups and charities to be given the right to run schools, hospitals and vast swathes of public services.
Loss-making Twitter has been valued at $10 billion. Facebook is said to be worth more than Ford. Now, for some investors, the alarm bells are starting to ring.
Unfortunately, there is no feasible way, certainly not in the United States, to go from the present world to a world without guns, says Nobel Laureate Gary Becker.
Today, most men in their 20s hang out in a novel sort of limbo, a hybrid state of semi-hormonal adolescence and responsible self-reliance: It doesn't bring out the best in men.
The emphasis on quantifying what students learn has substantially reduced or eliminated opportunities that children have for exploring, interacting, and learning on their own.
Born at the end of the so-called "long Enlightenment," Lincoln had no reservations about being guided by "Reason" or preferring it to passion. Providence, however, also played its role.
“Satire works by inference,” cartoonist G.B. Trudeau says in Brian Walker’s new book Doonesbury and the Art of G.B. Trudeau. “What you condemn should reveal what you value, what you […]
After a few months of intermittent explosions since late 2010, Bulusan in the Philippines looks to be at it again (although not really a "major volcanic eruption" as the Huffington Post […]
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The Foreign Affairs editor explains why China's growing influence in Africa could be a good thing for U.S. and the world.
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Will a new "Beijing consensus" replace Washington as the dominant economic role model for the developing world, or will the democratizing powers of technology put an end to authoritarian state […]
A new study of Sweden's sex trade laws sheds new light on the age-old debate about criminalizing prostitution.
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Washington will have to learn to lead by example and competence rather than mere assertion of dominance. And the American public is going to have to "grow up."
On Sunday morning President Ali Abdullah Salih gave a speech in front of roughly 30,000 supporters in Sanaa. Foreign journalists were invited to document the event and see the widespread […]
Protestors and opposition leaders in Bahrain are calling on the Sunni king to dissolve the government. Will these protests successfully usher in a revolution or be stifled like in Iran?
What did countries such as Britain and Italy think they were doing when they began to cultivate their relationships with Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gadaffi a few years back?
I said in my previous post that I had a second big move to announce. Well, it’s now official. Starting in August I will be a faculty member at the […]
So the BIG THINKers have reminded us that one of the most personal and technologically promising ideas of our time is DESIGNING BABIES--or making the result of our reproduction better than natural. I've […]
M.I.T. physicist Alan Guth has suggested that new universes—known as "pocket universes"— are constantly being created, but they cannot be seen from our universe.
It was heartening to see that there are tens of thousands of people protesting in Madison day after day. That's the beginning, maybe, of what we really need here: a democracy uprising.