Think Again
List of Think Again articles
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10 Million Sardines in a Sea of Skyscrapers
How sprawling megacities -- from Lagos to Mumbai -- might just save the world.
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Think Again: Climate Treaties
Why the glacial pace of climate diplomacy isn't ruining the planet.
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Think Again: Prostitution
Why zero tolerance makes for bad policy on world's oldest profession.
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Think Again: Nelson Mandela
The man behind the myth -- and the tenuous future of South Africa.
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Think Again: Mexican Drug Cartels
They aren't just about Mexico or drugs anymore.
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Think Again: American Nuclear Disarmament
A smaller atomic arsenal isn't just wishful thinking -- it's bad strategy.
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Think Again: Working Women
Why American women are better off than the lean-inners and have-it-allers realize.
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Think Again: A Nuclear Iran
Why it won’t be the end of the world if the mullahs get the bomb.
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Pakistan’s Rollercoaster Election
Is this a generationally significant change of power, or more of the same dysfunction?
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Think Again: Big Data
Why the rise of machines isn't all it's cracked up to be.
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Think Again: European Decline
Sure, it may seem as if Europe is down and out. But things are far, far better than they look.
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Think Again: Austerity
The big spenders are wrong: Maintaining sustainable budgets is essential to economic growth.
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Think Again: Margaret Thatcher
The former British prime minister was a transformative politician. But her public image as an unblinking Iron Lady fails to do justice to her complexity.
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Think Again: North Korea
North Korea is a lot more dangerous than you think, but that doesn't mean that Kim Jong Un is insane.
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Think Again: The Pentagon
The military's Chicken Littles want you to think the sky is falling. Don't believe them: America has never been safer.