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• The fight over America giving itself foreign aid

  

  One of the most inefficient and frequently counterproductive aspects of American foreign aid is our tendency to give aid to ourselves — experts call it “tied aid” — rather than directly giving it to those poor folks and communities overseas … Read More

• Why the Global Health Council closed
• Update on the Kony hunt

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• At Seattle Town Hall, the Google executive who sparked the Egyptian revolution

  In 2010, Egyptian Google executive Wael Ghonim used Facebook to coordinate a protest of the torture and killing of a man by dictatorial President Hosni Mubarak’s security police. It was the beginning of a revolution, the explosion of the Arab … Read More

• Arab Spring flares up
• Analysis: Could the Middle East "Jasmine Revolution" spread to America? Should it?

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• Egypt protests turn violent, Mubarak not ready to leave yet

  The political uprising in Egypt took a violent turn recently, as government supporters (whom many reports say are being identified as often police or security force personnel in civilian clothes) clash with protesters on the street still calling for immediate … Read More

• Is foreign aid about helping poor people, or propping up dictators?
• How (ir)relevant was Davos this year?

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