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Your Guide to the Housing Crisis

With the financial world in turmoil, here’s a handy guide to the bursting of the housing market bubble.

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Playing for Keeps: A Symposium

Will the Beijing Olympics ultimately help or hurt the cause of freedom in China? THE AMERICAN asked eight experts.

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Can Money Buy Happiness?

Money doesn’t buy happiness, but success does. Capitalism, moored in values of hard work, honesty, and fairness, is key.

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The Sovereigns Are Coming!

Foreign governments are investing large sums of money in American companies. Should we be scared?

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Little League, Huge Effect

How youth sports shape the economic, academic, and social prospects of Americans.

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The American Scene

The EU-U.S. innovation gap; crouching Tiger, hidden golf threat; McDonald’s—they’re lovin’ it; and more.

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Aging Gracefully

Europe can solve its demographic crisis by unlocking the value of health.

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Avoiding a Tech Train Wreck

The industry is consumed by disputes similar to those that once roiled American politics. We can avoid past mistakes.

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Map Quest

A scramble is underway to redraw boundaries, from the Balkans to the Arctic. What does it all mean?

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The Singapore Model

The city-state of Singapore may have a fix for America’s healthcare woes.

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America the Difficult

Why the United States should put out the welcome mat to foreign direct investors.

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The Deal Breaker

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States: what it is, what it does, and why it matters.

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The Indispensable Industry

New efforts to undermine the country’s drug development system are cause for worry.

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Dieselmania

Diesel engines enjoy large market share in Europe. Is this the engine of our deliverance?

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Hello, Mr. Chips

Scott McGregor of Broadcom discusses the war for talent, opportunity in China, and why he’s in the ideas business.

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Looking for the Virtuous Cycle

Esther Duflo and her MIT colleagues are waging a war on poverty.

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Giving the Country a Checkup

Americans' attitudes toward the U.S. healthcare system.

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Bad Medicine

India is a center for drug counterfeiting—a deadly business that is spreading to the United States and Europe.

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