ANALYSIS & OPINION
So Warren Buffett likes newspapers again?
Just because he blew $142 million in cash on 63 daily and weekly Media General newspaper titles yesterday doesn't mean that newspapers are back or that Buffett's become a romantic about the business.
What is the long-term euro vision?
The standard answer is fiscal, banking and political union. But that would be bad politics and bad economics. And the euro doesn’t need all that to survive. This is possible with liquidity backstops for the solvent; debt restructuring for the insolvent; and flexibility for all.
How to resist Big Brother 2.0
As the Net becomes the basis for commerce, work, entertainment, healthcare, learning, and much human discourse, each of us is leaving a trail of digital crumbs as we spend a growing portion of our day touching networks. We have little idea what governments are doing with this flood of personal information. And the aftermath of 9/11 should remind us just how quickly our civil liberties can be undermined in the name of national security.
Ending NATO’s double standard
As people around the globe see war criminals brought to justice, they want to see the world’s most powerful armies held accountable as well. There is a growing sense of a two-tiered system of international justice. The West puts others on trial for war crimes, the argument goes, while exempting its own forces from scrutiny.
Equal rights and the U.S. economy
America over the past 50 years has become a country that discriminates less and less on the basis of gender, race and sexual orientation, but it is also a place where the class divide is becoming so stark as to constitute a new form of discrimination.
Beppe Grillo: The anti-politics politician
For some three decades, this comedian has viciously satirized the corruption of Italian politics. Last week, in Italian elections, he won the honor of being a part of the very thing he mocks. But whether he can sustain a movement that now has some purchase on power is a large question.
Eduardo Saverin joins the stateless billionaires
The United States is the only country in the world which applies the same tax regime to all its citizens, regardless of where they live.
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