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Should Governments Drop Money Out of Helicopters?

We examine one crazy-sounding but very serious idea to prevent a low- or no-growth future

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Is Saudi To Blame For 鈥業S鈥�?

Many claim 鈥業S鈥� is the ideological offspring of Saudi Arabia

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How Will a Population Boom Change Africa?

The UN forecasts that the number of people living in Africa will double in 35 years

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Should We Solar Panel The Sahara?

Solar could provide clean energy on a vast scale. But the politics are difficult.

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How Much Inequality Is Too Much?

How far does inequality affect growth and prosperity?

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Do We Have Enough Genders?

Gender identity is considered more fluid than ever thanks to the trans movement

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What is China Doing to Clear the Air?

The air in much of China is so bad the government has repeatedly declared "war" on it

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How Has the US Gun Lobby Been so Successful?

The National Rifle Association is one of the most powerful organisations in the US

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Are We Fighting Cancer the Right Way?

The rising number of cancer cases worldwide poses a challenge for doctors and governments

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How Did Iceland Clean Up its Banks (And Why Can't We)?

Iceland put its prime minister on trial, cleaned up its banks and jailed senior bankers

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Why Don鈥檛 We Eradicate Mosquitoes?

Mosquitoes cause a huge number of deaths. But getting rid of them would be complicated.

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Has President Assad Won?

Bashar al-Assad still rules Syria after five years of war

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How Did Governments Lose Control of Encryption?

Spies, hippies, jihadis and the ongoing conflict over the power to keep secrets.

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Why Are Wages So Low?

Pay packets in developed economies have hardly grown in decades.

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What Would it Take to Put a Human on Mars?

Nasa is planning a manned mission to Mars. But the challenges are enormous

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Can we Quake-Proof a City?

Earthquakes have killed a million people in the last two decades

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Why Do Mexicans Drink So Much Soda?

Mexicans are among the world鈥檚 biggest soda consumers, and it鈥檚 affecting their health

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What Happened To Al-Qaeda?

Charting the fortunes of the group that once led the global jihadist movement

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Do We Have Enough Genders?

Gender identity is considered more fluid than ever

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What Kind of Person Becomes a Violent Jihadi?

The search for a 'terrorist type' and understanding people who kill for their beliefs

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Should We Give Homeless People Homes?

How the city of Medicine Hat in Canada, gave every person living in the streets a home

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What Happened to the European Dream?

The search for the vision that inspired the European project's founders

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What's Killing White American Women?

The mysterious case of rising death rates in the world's richest country

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How will Virtual Reality Change our Lives?

VR is finally a reality, and could affect everything from gaming to psychology

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Would A New International Convention Help Refugees?

The case for rethinking the 1951 UN Refugee Convention to deal with today's crisis

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Are we Fighting Cancer the Right Way?

The World Health Organisation says cancer rates around the world are rising fast

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Why Can't Egypt Stop FGM?

FGM is more common in Egypt than anywhere else in the world

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Are We Really About to End World Poverty?

The UN thinks ending extreme poverty is within our grasp

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Why Do So Many People Dislike Hillary?

How the US presidential frontrunner got to be so unpopular

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Can the EU Survive?

The fate of the European Union without Britain

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