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The North Dakota Way
Wikimedia Commons Fargo is an unlikely candidate for the next great American city. The metropolitan area population is slightly higher than that of Yonkers. The nearest major airport is 250 miles...
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Between a Rock and the Abyss
from Wikimedia Commons After a lull in economic upheaval, the latest Eurozone nation to face a banking crisis seems now to be Cyprus. The small, Mediterranean island, better known for being divided...
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Teaching the A Team
In recent decades, the United States has made it a priority to improve American education by “guaranteeing proficiency”—that is, bringing everyone up to par. President Lyndon Johnson’s Head Start...
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Egypt’s Mexican-Style Coup
Wikimedia Commons As I write this, there is less than an hour left to the end of the Egyptian Army’s 48-hour ultimatum that unless an agreement can be reached between the President Mohammed Morsi and...
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Great Barrier Grief
For the past few years, Australia’s economy has largely avoided the downturn that other Western economies have experienced. Unemployment peaked at 5.7%, far below the US peak of 10.2% and less than...
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In Ukraine, Two Disparate Futures of Geopolitics
by Russian Tanks in Moscow By all accounts, the Ukrainian Crisis should not be happening. Whether it be through the assurances given by Russia in the Budapest Memorandum of 1994 to respect Ukraine’s...
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West Africa’s Prophet Problem
by The choir of Christchurch Cathedral, Lagos. March 7′s Wall Street Journal included a rather unusual headline – “Heavenly Currency Intervention Is Sought“. If one were to read the article, it would...
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An Interview with Joyce Banda
by Her Excellency Dr. Joyce Banda served as the President of Malawi from April 2012 to May 2014, ascending to that office from the vice-presidency upon the death of then-president Bingu wa Muthrika....
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