Observation Deck
List of Observation Deck articles
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Europe’s Baller Bank Notes Are Fueling Terrorism
When it’s this easy to stuff a briefcase with 1 million euros, you’ve got a problem.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Interpreter of Malice
A half-century after he diagnosed postcolonial aggression, Frantz Fanon may shed light on the violence afflicting Europe today.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The End of an Era … for White Males
As demographics change, so does the definition of privilege.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Farewell to Arms
Has American fiction lost its political edge?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Espionage Economy
U.S. firms are making billions selling spyware to dictators.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 New Credit Junkies
Emerging markets are developing a dangerous debt habit.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Modi’s Coal Conundrum
Can India avoid repeating China’s dirty-energy mistakes?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Making of the Modern Superheroine
Why comic-book crusaders have nothing on the real-life women who changed the world in 2015.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Does Le Pen Read Houellebecq?
Why European intellectuals’ despair could herald the continent’s next wave of dangerous politics.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Could American Spooks Provoke War with Beijing?
U.S. intelligence agencies are turning spy missions into provocations in the South China Sea.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Baby Benefits Club
Generous parental-leave policies at Netflix and Virgin might signal a shift in the global labor market.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 The Paradox of Power in the Network Age
Who, exactly, will claim the virtual high ground?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Mexico’s Crude Capitalism
The country is providing a model for a new Latin American energy policy. But will it work?
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Silicon Fallacy
Why Silicon Valley’s notion that failure leads to success won’t work for the rest of the world.
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fp-placeholder-social-share-3-2 Japan’s Trans-Friendly Comic Book Revolution
From Wandering Son to boys’ love, how manga is helping straight-laced Japan come to terms with LGBT rights.
