Matt Yglesias makes a smart point: [I]f you take the long view of world history you’ll see that the question that needs explaining isn’t “why is so much stuff happening in Asia” but rather “why is so little stuff happening in Asia.” For most of human history, Asia is where all the action is since […]
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Rumor has it, Amazon is set to launch a smart phone dubbed, unsurprisingly, the Kindle Phone in 2012: The device, so far dubbed the Kindle Phone for want of another name, will be launched around this time next year in the fourth quarter of 2012, according to All Things D. The information comes from ‘s research […]
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This has been making the rounds: To an extent, this is true. The western, industrialized world is far richer than Africa and most of Asia and most of South America. The poor and working class in America may indeed have hunger issues, but they are not starving the way that the poor of famine-swept Somalia […]
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