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Seven Scenarios for the Future of Syria 27 Aug 2013 | 07:28 am
As the war in Syria drags on, it is becoming ever more vicious. Militias kill hundreds of civilians, ethnic cleansing large swaths of the country in the process. Rebel groups fight among themselves fo...
What Antoinette Tuff has to teach politics 26 Aug 2013 | 11:08 am
Amid all the commentary about Antoinette Tuff’s successful talking down of a potential school gunman in Georgia, Gary Younge in the Guardian makes two of the best observations I’ve seen about it. Firs...
Labour and Uncle Sam 21 Aug 2013 | 02:36 pm
Should Britain expect more from the Special Relationship with the United States than managed decline? What price should progressives be willing to pay for influence? Latest in our #progressivedilemmas...
What progress looks like 19 Aug 2013 | 05:50 pm
We started out with four feet of skin care; today it’s twenty feet. Today we don’t have deodorants, but someday down the road we will have deodorants in China. Five years ago perfumes were not a big b...
The women of rural India are not meek – and we do not help them when we pretend that they are 13 Aug 2013 | 04:44 pm
The meeting started off with a comfortable simplicity. In a village in Uttar Pradesh, India, a group of semi-literate women greeted the visiting development professionals with garlands and tikas and...
On course for 3.6 – 5.3 degrees Celsius 12 Aug 2013 | 09:09 pm
A little earlier in the summer, the International Energy Agency published an excerpt from the forthcoming 2013 World Energy Outlook. Included in it was their latest calculation of the global average t...
Last of the White Russians 12 Aug 2013 | 07:15 am
Occasionally an item of news reminds us of how transient most great political dramas are, and how quickly major crises come and go. This is rather healthy: it puts us on notice that most of the issue...
Kissinger: when you don’t have a foreign policy, talk about development! 9 Aug 2013 | 08:19 pm
Micah Zenko of CFR has just blogged this transcript of a 1975 telephone call between Henry Kissinger and his long-time aide Winston Lord on the knotty problem of what to say about Africa in an upcomin...
It’s getting clearer and clearer we’re in an inequality crisis – so why am I optimistic? 8 Aug 2013 | 07:53 pm
We are not living in an age of austerity. We are living in an age of brutal inequality. Millions struggle to feed themselves and their families – even in Europe. But the men who caused the financial c...
The first law of politics 6 Aug 2013 | 10:56 am
From Janan Ganesh in the FT: More than any profession, politics suffers from the myth of strategy. Its practitioners and pundits tend to attribute electoral success to a compelling “message” or “narr...
