List of Economics articles
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Al-Qaeda linked al-Shabab recruits walk down a street on March 5, 2012 in the Deniile district of Somalian capital, Mogadishu, following their graduation. In Somalia, Iran Is Replicating Russia’s Afghan Strategy
Iranian forces are supporting al-Shabab and allegedly offering bounties. The U.S. government must stop Tehran before it further destabilizes the Horn of Africa.
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offshore tax havens coronavirus money To Pay for the Pandemic, Dry Out the Tax Havens
Corporations and the wealthy have stashed away as much as $36 trillion in untaxed money. It's time to bring the hammer down.
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Lebanese riot police guard a bank in Beirut on April 28. The United States Is Pushing Lebanon Further Into Iran’s Embrace
The Lebanese economy is collapsing, and the risk of conflict is rising—but Washington has failed to grasp why Iranian influence is spreading or the measures needed to stop it.
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U.S. President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence at the White House White House Installs Anti-Abortion Loyalist at USAID
Across federal agencies, the Trump administration is seeding the government with ideologues meant to advance hard-line policies.
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French Finance Minister Emmanuel Macron gestures during a session at the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos, on Jan 22, 2016. The Pandemic Could Be the Crisis Liberalism Needed
The future has rarely seemed bleaker for free-market democracy—but small changes can bring it roaring back.
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Air passengers wearing protective suits walk out of the arrival lounge of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport in Kolkata, India, on July 6. Trapped on the Wrong Side of the India-China Border
From a pandemic to geopolitics, for families and businesspeople caught by border closings, things are going from bad to worse.
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Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador speaks with the press on November 13, 2019 in Mexico City. López Obrador Goes to Washington to Play Nice With Trump
Once an anti-Trump firebrand, the Mexican president knows he needs his U.S. counterpart—and isn’t taking any chances on the November election.
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The Syrian city of Idlib in March after the coroanvirus outbreak. In Syria, a Grim Trade-Off Between Tackling Pandemic and Famine
The pandemic-fueled food shortage in Syria suggests the worst is yet to come in other conflict-riven countries around the world.
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Then-U.S. Senator John Kerry addresses reporters at the U.S. Capitol about the release of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Terrorism's report on the Bank of Credit and Commerce International's illegal financial dealings on Oct. 1, 1992. The Dictator-Run Bank That Tells the Story of America’s Foreign Corruption
BCCI was a kleptocratic institution whose influence reached the White House—and a model for today’s global crooks.
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HP-override-pandemic-2020-2022 Will the Coronavirus Fuel Conflict?
Projections based on economic and development data show an increased risk of internal violence in fragile states driven by rising prices and falling incomes.
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People walk down 16th Street after “Defund The Police” was painted on the street near the White House in Washington, D.C., on June 8. Defund the Bankers
The U.S. economy needs reform, and the Black Lives Matter movement shows how it can be done.
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People wait in line to receive food in Queens, New York, on May 11. To Fight Inequality, the United States Needs an FDR. Can Biden Deliver?
The COVID-19 crisis could lead to a modern-day New Deal—but only if Democrats have the courage to replace failed economic policies with radical reforms.
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A team of dressmakers works in a factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on Nov. 22, 2012. This Is What the Future of Globalization Will Look Like
The pandemic proved, once and for all, that the world can’t be flat. But global trade can recover—if we rewrite the rules.
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coronavirus-turning-point-crisis-protest-foreign-policy-hp Crises Only Sometimes Lead to Change. Here’s Why.
The coronavirus pandemic won’t automatically lead to reforms. Great upheavals only bring systemic change when reformers have a plan—and the power to implement it.
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Demonstrators wear masks of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Benny Gantz as they protest against plans to annex parts of the West Bank, on June 23 in Tel Aviv. Corporations Will Be Complicit if Israel Goes Through With Annexation
Annexation will raise their legal risk of being held accountable for human rights violations and war crimes.
