China’s Numbers Don’t Add Up

Chinese corruption and bureaucracy remain challenges for foreign businesspeople.

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The Transatlantic Battle Against Tax Evasion

Why is combating tax evasion so important in the globalization debate?

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Profits Up, Labor Down

Is a weak labor market good for U.S. corporate profits?

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India’s Food Crises: A Close-Up

Can India be a global power when it can’t guarantee its own food security?

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Slavery and Guns: America’s “Peculiar Institutions”

How are U.S. “gun rights” today an extension of a right created to preserve slavery?

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Syria: Lessons from History

Two historic examples of U.S. action vs. inaction may be instructive for Syria now.

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Selective Morality and Syria

A case against a U.S. attack in Syria — and a path forward.

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China’s Income Gap

China’s rich-poor (and urban-rural) divide is looking more and more like the West’s.

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Germerica: The German Love Affair with America

What tied Germany and the United States together for over two centuries?

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Guns Kill People, Unevenly

Gun violence falls along stark racial lines in the United States.

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