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  • Global Income Distribution
    What’s happening to the world income distribution? The elephant chart revisited

    n 2013, Christoph Lakner and Branko Milanovic published a graph—quickly dubbed the “elephant chart”—that depicts changes in income distribution across the world between 1988 and 2008.

  • Cyber
    Commentary: Will the U.S. Ever Switch From Cyber Defense to Offense?

    Ransomware was delivered to selected client systems inside the Atlanta municipal network, encrypting computers and demanding a ransom for the keys to unlock them. It was allegedly sent by a known hacker group that has pulled off similar ransom schemes against municipalities worldwide.

  • Turkey
    Opinion: Who Is a Turk? It’s Complicated

    Earlier this year, Turkey opened its closely guarded population register, a monumental archive of lineages going back to Ottoman times. A website that gives access to all public services in Turkey now includes a genealogy tab. Users can download ancestry documents, with records going as far back as 1882.

  • Afghanistan
    Is Peace on the Horizon for Afghanistan?

    An offer of talks by the Ghani government was met with silence from the Taliban. That, in itself, could be a good sign.

  • Arab Spring
    Perspective: Was the Arab Spring a black-swan event?

    The Arab Spring surely satisfies the three criteria for a black swan event: surprising, historically consequential, and rationalized by hindsight.

  • Fashion
    Is Saudi Arabia Ready for Runway Fashion Shows?

    “Since the initial announcement made in February, Arab Fashion Week Riyadh has garnered significant interest from international guests wanting to attend,” said Layla Issa Abuzaid, the country director for Saudi Arabia at the Arab Fashion Council, the Dubai nonprofit responsible for the event.

  • U.S.-Pakistan
    Is Trump Ready to Dump Pakistan?

    Previous U.S. presidents tried and failed to persuade Pakistan to rein in the Taliban and the Haqqani militants on the Afghan border. Now President Donald Trump faces the same challenge, and officials inside his administration are debating how far to press Pakistan.

  • Mohammed Bin Salman
    Perspective: Can Mohammed bin Salman really save Saudi Arabia?

    MBS fits the model of the west’s favourite partners in the Middle East: regime reformists, who promise change but not too much of it. Here is an apparently anti-establishment leader who hails from the very heart of the establishment.

  • Energy Industry
    What Is the Future of the Energy Sector?

    The energy industry is being reshaped by major forces, including decentralization, digitization, shifting demand and prices, and greater sustainability as a public policy issue.

  • Saudi-Ukraine
    Ukraine Is Building a Spaceplane for…Saudi Arabia?

    In a presentation earlier this year, Ukrainian space company KB Yuzhnoye made a splash by unexpectedly revealing an exotic shuttle-like space vehicle. The presentation shows a bullet-shaped design that looks more like a plane than a traditional rocket—and unlike anything seen from the famous Ukrainian rocket makers before.