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The reality was exposed in a sobering book by journalist Shannon Brownlee entitled Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine is Making Us Sicker and Poorer. The issue has also been taken up in a couple of recent US reports. In May, the Good Stewardship ...

As Anatol Lieven observes in Pakistan: A Hard Country, “barely 1 per cent of the population pays income tax, and the wealthiest landowners pay no direct taxes at all.” As a Peshawar tax auditor told him, “If anyone took taxes seriously, ...

“Traditional religion is having a tough time in parts of the world,” writes Joel Garreau in The New Atlantis. “Majorities in most European countries have told Gallup pollsters in the past few years that religion does not 'occupy an important place' in ...

I would be tempted to call a grand jury,” wrote Steve Coll, a Pulitzer-winning biographer of Mr. bin Laden. “Who owned the land on which the house was constructed?” If the ownership were traced to HM, it would mark an unusual example of co-operation ...

There wasn't a single North American accent among them, but the show went on smoothly without anyone so much as noticing. Onstage were Gao Xiqing, president of the China Investment Corporation; Juan Carlos Echeverry, Colombia's Minister of Finance; and other figures from what used to be called "the South."

‘This is not about selling wristwatches or sweaters,” says Tim Wu, the Columbia Law School professor considered one of the world's leading thinkers on technology policy. “This is information – information is power.” ...

Reihan Salam, a writer for the conservative National Review and the son of Bangladeshi immigrants, disputes the impression of tokenism. He argues it is a grassroots phenomenon: Asians who have immigrated to small or rural areas, for example, are likely to share their neighbours' conservative values....

... Cleantech Summit, will hear from a high priest of green: the former environmental adviser to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Terry Tamminen. ...

... of the urgency of this mission,” said William Hartung, director of the New York based Arms and Security Initiative and a leading arms-control authority. ...

The next three to four weeks are "going to be crucial to the future of any potential US-Iran rapprochement," says Afshin Molavi, a fellow at the New America Foundation, in Washington. If the current tension leads to a kind of Tiananmen-style crackdown, ...