James A. Coffman (MDI) and Donald C. Mikulecky (VCU): Global Insanity Redux. “Ungoverned space”: Janosch Prinz on the concept that puts humanitarian aid in the firing line of the War on Terror. Links between slavery, environmental damage are cause for hope: Ellen Wulfhorst reviews Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide and the Secret to Saving the World by Kevin Bales. How do you stop intractable conflict? Ana Swanson on how so many of the world’s people live in so little of its space. The end of the Malthusian nightmare: Robin Harding on how falling fertility opens a new stage in human history, with greater control of our destiny. Thanassis Cambanis on broken nations and the perils of dysfunction: Forget about windows — what do you do when an entire way of running a country stops working? Every country’s debt, mapped. Neil Irwin on how to make sense of plummeting global markets. Battered, bruised and jumpy: The whole world is on edge.
