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21/07/2015 - 20:00

This admiration contains clues to Mr. Putin’s own, somewhat enigmatic philosophy, the venerable historian Walter Laqueur writes in “... →

11/07/2015 - 20:29

It might be that Rousseau is an extreme case, but suffice it to say, there is no end to the hypocrisy of people who tell other people how... →

05/07/2015 - 11:20

What, then, explains the religiosity of American politics? Kruse traces its origins back to the 1930s. Conservative business leaders had... →

28/06/2015 - 13:49

In the financial sphere the Bretton Woods institutions—the IMF and the World Bank—have lost their monopoly position. Under Chinese... →

21/06/2015 - 12:44

The next year, his young son reissued Magna Carta, without some of the clauses. It was reissued several times more in the 13th century —... →

12/06/2015 - 16:58

DeepMind burst into the limelight last year when it published a paper in Nature that showed how a computer could be programmed to teach... →

07/06/2015 - 13:42

The multitude of planetary systems seems to be yet another fact of our cosmic inconsequence, in which our corner of the universe is just... →

02/06/2015 - 19:14

Typically, dictatorships – as seen by researchers – have a few other hallmarks, too. Unlike monarchs, who are drawn from a very small pool... →

29/05/2015 - 14:42

Consider what’s happening in Russia, where an elected autocrat presides over a free market shaped by a powerful state apparatus. Similarly... →

24/05/2015 - 14:51

As an American who never made Israel his permanent home, Hasak-Lowy spent a year in Israel after high school, took some Hebrew in college,... →

19/05/2015 - 16:33

FREE-FOR-ALL Computing gets much of the credit for lowering the barriers to entry to space. The modern smartphone is the product of three-... →

15/05/2015 - 15:24

Since official bilateral ties were established on May 12, 1965, there wasn’t a specific catalyzing moment that made the alliance so strong... →

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