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Philanthropy Is Not The Solution: Bright Ideas Light Up Africa
1.6 billion people around the world live without reliable access to electricity. 600 million of those live in Africa. I’m sure this isn’t the first time you’ve heard an astonishing statistic like this. Everyday we’...
WATCH: The Crowd In The Machine
What shall we make of the flood of images and voices coursing through the Internet, and how shall we process it? In our minds, the details of so much material overlap and overwhelm. On the Internet, we say, our attention is get...
Growth of the Al-Shabaab movement in Kenya
Kenya’s Minister for Internal Security George Saitoti in 2011 said, “Our territorial integrity is threatened with serious security threats of terrorism. We cannot allow this to happen at all………R...
Lost in Election Season: Partisan Compact or Social Contract
With a national stagnation of wages and an unemployment rate of 8.1%, it would be an understatement to label the current economic “recovery” sluggish. Economic Policy Institute President Lawrence Mishel is but one among the...
Don’t Forget Japan: December Elections Could Renew Tensions
For the last few weeks, Asian relations seem to have been put on hold. Tensions over territory and resources which dominated attention over the summer receded into the background as attention turned first to the United States, ...
Unpaid Internships: The Only Route To Success?
Right under our noses a poisonous, if not deadly epidemic has struck. No it’s not the measles, its unpaid internships – and whose fault is it anyway? The education system, parliament and employers have all faced criticism,...
