Tag Archives: democracy

Social Media and the Revival of American Democracy

How could Facebook, YouTube and Twitter help to limit the role of money in U.S. politics?

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Freedom and Corruption

Do the data suggest that there is any stable relationship between democracy and corruption?

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Message from Singapore: When the West Is No Longer in Control

What does Singapore’s finance minister, Tharman Shanmugaratnam, think about the future of the global economy?

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Tim Geithner: Eternal Optimist, or Soothsayer?

Why does the sitting U.S. Treasury Secretary act more like the marketing department of the New York Stock Exchange?

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Ai Weiwei on Modern China

Why is Chinese artist Ai Weiwei an outspoken critic of China’s government?

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Libya, Globalization and Oil

How has the United States surrendered some of its sovereignty to the oil markets?

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Who Lost Egypt?

Did America lose Egypt? Or did China — and what China represents — gain Egypt?

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Egypt and the Global Oil Market: Geopolitics Is Back

Markets are extraordinarily bad at getting political risk right — and the Egypt crisis is no exception.

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Will Egypt Today Share the Fate of Turkey in 1911?

Why are the parallels between Cairo today and Constantinople a century ago all too obvious and disturbing?

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When China Challenged America to Catch Mice

Has the United States ceded the art of pragmatism to the Chinese?

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