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Sunday 06/August/2017 16:57 PM

The noose tightens around Trump presidency

Even with a new minder trying to bring some order to the White House, President Donald Trump remains in a heap of trouble. The recent installation of...

Sunday 06/August/2017 16:42 PM

Financing universal education

The 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals represent a remarkable commitment by the international community to eliminate poverty and improve...

Sunday 06/August/2017 16:30 PM

Extraordinary measures in era of decisionism

It has been ten years since the financial crisis went international. Until July 2007, the subprime mortgage crisis seemed like it was strictly a problem for...

Saturday 05/August/2017 17:26 PM

Africa’s defining challenge

Africa has the youngest population in the world, and it’s growing fast. By 2055, the continent’s youth population (aged 15-24), is expected to be more...

Saturday 05/August/2017 17:13 PM

Soil science for a hungry planet

According to the United Nations, sometime around 2050, the planet’s human population will be close to ten billion, a threshold that will stress many of...

Saturday 05/August/2017 17:01 PM

Ukraine’s imperiled press freedom

On July 20, 2016, Pavel Sheremet, a prominent Belarusian-born journalist, was heading to work at the studios of Radio Vesti in Kyiv when the Subaru he was...