By PATRICK MCGROARTY African countries are trying to shoo the U.S. dollar away, even if it means threatening to throw people who use greenbacks…
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Elizabeth Dickinson Fourteen months ago, Ali was one of Bahrain’s young, educated up-and-comers. The twenty-seven-year-old, with matted black hair and eyes that look too…
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Production : Florent Mazzoleni Réalisation : Véronique Samouiloff Présentation de l’émission : En cinq émissions, Florent Mazzoleni propose un panorama musical iconoclaste autour des musiques modernes africaines.…
Fast food and urban lifestyles bring scourge of the developed world to a changing continent Jeremy Laurance Thursday, 9 August 2012 In the public…
By RICHARD POLT Wherever I turn, the popular media, scientists and even fellow philosophers are telling me that I’m a machine or a beast.…
William McGowan WILLIAM MCGOWAN is the author of Only Man is Vile: The Tragedy of Sri Lanka and Gray Lady Down: What the Decline…
The recession is over—but not for you. From penniless retirement accounts to frozen wages, demographic uneasiness to inept lawmakers, Newsweek’s David Frum breaks down…
By Derek Thompson Demographics are economics. One way to think about the Great Recession is like a great pause button. In normal times, millions…
Alan Philps Aug 3, 2012 For the best part of a century the provision of electrical power has been one of the touchstones of…