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Bari Musawwir was discovered while racing radio-controlled cars. He hopes to serve as a role model for other aspiring Black drivers in motorsports.

When we turn from ethnocentrism or the fixities of exceptionalism, we learn that more knowledge from diverse concepts and methods produces better outcomes.

Official Development Assistance (ODA) isn’t what it used to be: each aid dollar is worth a lot less in terms of development outcomes. In large part that’s because the Development Assistance Committee (DAC), the donor club within the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) that decides what counts as ODA, keeps changing the rules to include ever more spending that doesn’t deliver resources to recipient countries. It raises the question: does the DAC have a constructive...

A helpful framework for thinking about engaging in holistic missions

Everything we know about solving the worlds problems is wrong. Out: Plans, experts and above all, leaders. In: Adapting - improvise rather than plan; fail, learn, and try again In this groundbreaking new book, Tim Harford shows how the worlds most complex and important problems - including terrorism, climate change, poverty, innovation, and the financial crisis - can only be solved from the bottom up by rapid experimenting and adapting. From a spaceport in the Mojave Desert to the street battle...

THE UNDERCOVER ECONOMIST showed how ordinary economics explained everyday curiosities, such as the price of a cup of coffee and the traffic jam on the way to the supermarket. THE LOGIC OF LIFE shows how the new economics of rational choice theory explains much, much more. Drug addicts and teenage muggers can be rational. Suburban sprawl and inner city decay are rational. Endless meetings at the office and the injustices of working life? Rational. Economics explains why your boss is overpaid, ...

After 77 years in one family, Syracuse’s oldest fish fry is closing Updated Apr 06, 2021; Posted Apr 06, 2021 Owner Bill Easterly at Jims Fish Fry on Wolf Street in 2014, when the place was 70 years old.Don Cazentre Facebook Share After 77 years, it looks like 2021 is the last hurrah for the Easterly family at Jim’s Fish Fry. Jim’s, at 1248 Wolf St. across from the Crouse-Hinds plant, will serve its last fish on Friday, April 16. It’s listed for sale as a “turnkey” restaurant ope...

Illustration by Tim Robinson. “To the memory of Christopher Columbus,” reads the inscription to the large Columbus Fountain in Washington, D.C., “whose high faith and indomitable courage gave to mankind a New World.” The monument was erected in 1912, and one cringes reading those words now. Columbus did not give mankind a New World. As the statue of the Native American man kneeling by Columbus’s side suggests, that world was already fully possessed by humanity. Books in Review By...