Sightlines
List of Sightlines articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Exchange: What Do Margaret Thatcher and Genghis Khan Tell Us About the Future of Globalization?
Jeffrey E. Garten and Robert Zoellick on refugees, women, and the connected world.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Innovations: How to Save 3 Billion Lives — By Just Adding Water
Thanks to BYU researchers, now a small, freeze-dried "kit" can produce vaccines in the world's poorest countries.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Exchange: Erica Chenoweth and David Scheffer on When to Get Violent
Are guns necessary to topple a dictator?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Exchange: Sam Hopkins and Michela Wrong on Africa’s New Missionaries
How has Western aid shaped Africa and its institutions?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Innovations: Why Is Moscow Developing an Army of Automated Insects?
Russian designers have created a robotic roach to aid in search-and-rescue operations — and, yes, espionage.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Exchange: Joshua Oppenheimer and David Rieff on Genocide
How different are victims from victimizers?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Europe’s Migrant Crisis By the Numbers
These four charts show the scale of the continent's humanitarian situation.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Exchange: Lynsey Addario and Shirin Ebadi Talk Iran
Is anyone free to report on Tehran?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Innovations: Are Potholes a Thing of the Past?
How a group of scientists and engineers turned to the human immune system to revolutionize road repair.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Exchange: Andrei Soldatov and Joe Weisberg Talk Russian Intel
Why do governments bother to spy at all?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Innovations: A Drone Called WANDA
The U.S. military is studying the movement of fish to design the next generation of autonomous underwater vehicles.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Decoder: Asia’s Bride Market
How the demand for wives in South Korea, Singapore, and China is fueling a regional matchmaking trade.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Decoder: The Plague
There are up to 2,000 cases of the deadly disease annually worldwide. Could the Islamic State create even more?