Stories

Objections Sustained

Objections Sustained

Sara Hossain can sound ambivalent about her role as honorary executive director of BLAST, the Bangladesh Legal Aid and Services Trust.  “I don’t...

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Data Minded

Data Minded

Nithya Ramanathan won’t deny that she loves engineering puzzles. “I just find them really fun to solve,” she says. “But ultimately I get pretty...

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Burning Down the House

Burning Down the House

“Basically, we are telling our kids and our grandkids that we don't care about them when we burn the Amazon… This is something that can't happen...

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Amazonian Armageddon

Amazonian Armageddon

Once again, the Amazon is burning—and deforestation may be approaching a tipping point that could turn the world’s largest rain forest into dry...

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Believing It’s Possible

Believing It’s Possible

As founder of the Open Source Pharma Foundation, which is creating a crowd-sourced alternative to the pharmaceutical industry, Jaykumar Menon feels...

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Dealing with a Dragon

Dealing with a Dragon

“Everybody is saying, ‘Oh, why isn't China being so meek and so docile anymore? Why is it showing his teeth?’  The simple answer is that, it is what...

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Has China Won?

Has China Won?

The competition between China and the United States is the defining geopolitical reality of the 21st century. The evolution of its new Great Game...

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