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Silk Road

How governments in emerging economies can help boost and sustain growth

Why do some countries grow faster than others, year after year? Why do China and South Korea grow rapidly while a large group of countries in Africa and Latin America remain underdeveloped? Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Lucas famously wrote that “the c…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Obamacare

The Atlantic Daily : These Attacks Could’ve Been Prevented

It’s Monday, July 15. In today’s issue: an investigation into the national backlog of untested rape kits. Plus: those Trump tweets, and the lawsuit against Obamacare. Were you forwarded this email? Sign yourself up here. We have many other free email newslett…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Julian Assange

CNN’s Atika Schubert on a decade of reporting on Assange

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bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Feudalism

Socialism

Socialism is a rich tradition of political thought and practice, the history of which contains a vast number of views and theories, often differing in many of their conceptual, empirical, and normative commitments. In his 1924 Dictionary of Socialism, Ange…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Blastoma

Kinsley’s Cookie Cart: Beating Cancer and Sprinkling Love

TAMPA, Fla. Ask 5-year-old Kinsley Peacock what she likes to do, and she doesn't hesitate to answer. "Playing with my brother," said Kinsley. Her mom says she's the best big sister ever, because she has the sweetest heart. And, lately, she's got a sweet to…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Fortnite

This $25 Nintendo Switch controller supports in-game Fortnite chat with a headphone jack

The Nintendo Switch is a bit lacking in the accessory market, and that means a lot of the deficiencies that came baked into the first-generation version of the product aren’t really getting addressed in a timely fashion. We’re talking features like Bluetooth …

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Obamacare

Is Biden’s Health Care Plan Actually That Moderate?

Intelligencer staffers Benjamin Hart, Ed Kilgore, and Eric Levitz discuss. Ben: Today, Democratic still-front-runner Joe Biden revealed his campaigns health-care plan. As many of his rivals endorse transformative changes to the system, mostly under the banne…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Singapore

Commentary: Singapore trade, disrupted, (not) business as usual

SINGAPORE: To say that the global trade landscape has changed over the last few years would be a gross understatement. At the founding of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, one would not have guessed, for example, that its appeal body for trade disp…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

Neymar

Football gossip: Maguire, Neymar Bruce, Fernandes, Alderweireld, Coutinho

Leicester have promised England centre-back Harry Maguire, 26, that he can leave the club if Manchester United or Manchester City eclipse the £75m Liverpool paid for Virgil van Dijk and set a new world-record fee for a defender. (Telegraph) Paris St-Germain'…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

SpaceX

SpaceX finds surprising cause behind Crew Dragon explosion – CNET

The SpaceX Crew Dragon will head to the ISS on its first test flight. NASA On April 20, a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule unexpectedly exploded during a ground test at Cape Canaveral in Florida. After an investigation, NASA and SpaceX now say a leak led to a sur…

bubmagJuly 16, 2019

How governments in emerging economies can help boost and sustain growth

The Atlantic Daily : These Attacks Could’ve Been Prevented

CNN’s Atika Schubert on a decade of reporting on Assange

Socialism

Kinsley’s Cookie Cart: Beating Cancer and Sprinkling Love

This $25 Nintendo Switch controller supports in-game Fortnite chat with a headphone jack

Is Biden’s Health Care Plan Actually That Moderate?

Commentary: Singapore trade, disrupted, (not) business as usual

Football gossip: Maguire, Neymar Bruce, Fernandes, Alderweireld, Coutinho

SpaceX finds surprising cause behind Crew Dragon explosion – CNET

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