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Following Sheikh Hasina’s removal from the position of Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Muhammad Yunus assumed leadership of a non-partisan interim government. His strategy for political survival ...

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The great spiritual luminary Thomas Merton once alluded to the image of a person who spent a lifetime climbing the ladder of success only to discover, at the top, that the ladder was leaning on the ...

Christopher Pollard does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations ...

Jason Furman is one of the most influential Democratic economists of the past two decades. From 2013 to 2017 he chaired President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, where he helped shape tax ...