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California has met the future, and it really doesn’t work. As the mounting panic surrounding the drought suggests, the Golden State, once renowned for meeting human and geographic challenges, is losing its ability to cope with crises. As a result, the...

Are babies America’s and the world’s most precious resource? Or are they a “burden” to be murdered in the womb, with their fetal tissue forwarded for “scientific” and commercial uses? (Editor’s Note: Journalist Anthony LoBaido has covered the issue...

David Foster Wallace (RIP) and his hilarious essay “A Supposedly Fun Thing I Will Never Do Again” on the “nearly-lethal comforts of cruises” shaped my opinion of cruises. In 1996, Harper’s Magazine asked Wallace to go on a cruise and write a long postcard...

3:48 P.M. SAST MS. MABUSE: You guys are an amazing crowd. Good afternoon, and welcome to the University of Johannesburg’s Soweto campus. My name is Nkepile Mabuse and I will be the moderator this afternoon. I really do hope that the strong...

Founder and CEO, African Leadership Academy Fred Swaniker A Ghanaian entrepreneur based in South Africa has been commended by the President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, for using his expertise to help young Africans to develop their...