Jonathan Yip / April 18, 2010 11:03 am
Our cover here was a joke, but perhaps one not too far from the truth. Bono writes today as an op-ed guest columnist in the New York Times about the “rebooting” of Africa, and in his lilting prose, he’s actually pretty right. Development economics is a contentious and irreconcilable field; there are infinitely more questions than there are answers. In [...]
Max Novendstern / January 17, 2010 4:43 pm
James Fallows makes a lot of good points in his long Atlantic article, “How American Can Rise Again.” I’ll highlight just one. Let’s call it “the pathos of helplessness”: The full details are beyond us here, but the crucial point is that in principle, the United States itself has the power to correct what is wrong in each case. Take [...]
Jonathan Yip / December 20, 2009 11:11 pm
Music, politics, and celebrity in the age of Bono
