…shape of the world surrounding them. Columbus claims the New World, painting by John Vanderlyn, 1847. 1650s-1680s: A Taste for Luxury: The first coffeehouses spread from the Muslim world (through…

…the World Bank dedicated its 1997 flagship World Development Report to the “rediscovery” of the state after two decades of denigrating or denying its role, the report was also very…

…the world who have diabetes. Fig. 2. Diabetes mortality. World Health Organization 2014. Used with permission. Today, personal blood glucose meters are widely considered best practice for optimal diabetes management….

…Punched Card Accounting Machine, a model in operation in the years immediately following World War II. In a typical application, the machine read a deck of punched cards, each of…

…and unrealistic unawareness of the threats nations face today. For many in the intelligence world today, hacking into computers and network infrastructures worldwide is, quite simply, an extension of the…

…liberal values. This explains some of the purchase these programs have among a familiar cast of decidedly liberal “development partners” like the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and even…

…The executive board room of the World Health Organization. The World Health Organization (WHO) received much of the criticism; the organization learned of the outbreak in March but did not…

…support them. In response, a new counter-critical common sense informs their reading of political and world events, a reading both determined by and filtered through a dromological news cycle saturated…

…(the state of the world, the mysteries of the cosmos), but the state of the world itself (the fact that the world still exists as we speak) that provides information…

…me tell you. My rule of thumb for easy credit on these world affairs realtime assignments is to look for Wikipedia articles with a lot of [citation needed] flags, read…

…always seems to cut out, the water that sometimes runs once a day, the roads that wash out in the rainy season. By carving out an exceptional, enclaved space that…

…statistical control” (Fisher 1934). The brutality of the First World War had made people into resources for procuring blood, but the Second World War produced the conditions for the large-scale,…

…economist who was a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics at the time. The Institute, now the Peterson Institute for International Economics, was founded in 1981.[2] Circa 1979-80,…

…an Army General. Nor could international organizations augment American resources: “At all times the infectious disease unit at WHO is running on a shoestring,” said an international health official. As…

…vengeance (International Business Times 2015). Anonymous members declared war on politically violent Islamic extremists. Some Anons said it was their democratic duty to engage in the international political battle against…

…readers to easily connect insights to individual documents, a situation exacerbated by a degree of inconsistency and repetition within the archive itself.[4] In other words, news values dominated entirely over…

…and infectious diseases affecting health everywhere, and to alert member nations when a local outbreak threatens to spread internationally. It also sets international health standards, requires member nations to have…

…like the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank, editorials and scientific papers in medical journals like The Lancet, and policy documents and pamphlets prepared by aid agencies, health…

…Assessments” from around the world (Green 2014; World Bank 2001). Alongside the World Bank Development Sourcebook (World Bank 1996) and a range of other handbooks and sourcebooks and kits, the…

…and specific disdain for climate-change deniers. One thread in particular, in which CRU director Phil Jones and Penn State Earth Systems Science Center director Michael Mann discussed using a statistical…

…in the complex world of development, where vulnerable livelihoods leave little room for creative destruction. There is also a qualitative difference between the beta version of the latest geolocation app…

…modern archives seem somehow quaint and controllable by comparison to those of today. Today it sometimes seems that collecting everything is just what we do. Why not log it? Why…

…Russian intelligence—is: would the hackers and the Russian government have responded in the way that they have? By systematically leaking documents and slowly dripping information? I don’t know. Maybe they…

…name remains in a smaller, red font: Moi International Sports Centre. It is the name of Daniel Arap Moi—the strongman who ruled Kenya for nearly a quarter of a century—that…

…the raw terms of geopolitical claims to power. Canada and Russia, both having abandoned the Kyoto Protocol, have clearly staked their game-theoretical futures on expansive fossil energy reserves. Russia’s fossil…

…we are offered an alternative: gross national happiness. Massive surveys like the Gallup World Poll offer global maps of affect and desire (Figure 1), and governments seek interventions that provide…

It was the first time the disease appeared in Sierra Leone. It began to make the news in June. Dozens of British newspapers covered the story over the summer. The…