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Agata Sagan

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Agata Sagan is an independent researcher living in Warsaw, working on ethics and the persecution of Jews in the Soviet Union.

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  1. What Is Your Moral Plan for 2021?
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    What Is Your Moral Plan for 2021?

    Dec 30, 2020 Peter Singer & Agata Sagan encourage New Year's resolutions that focus on becoming a better person, not just a better eater or saver.

  2. Beyond the Traditional Family
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    Beyond the Traditional Family

    Mar 5, 2019 Peter Singer & Agata Sagan cast a critical eye on a document signed in February by Pope Francis and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar.

  3. Why Loving Our Animals Is Not Enough
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    Why Loving Our Animals Is Not Enough

    Jun 7, 2018 Agata Sagan & Peter Singer worry that most people don't know as much they should about their household companions.

  4. Do You Want to Be a Cyborg?
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    Do You Want to Be a Cyborg?

    May 16, 2017 Agata Sagan & Peter Singer defend people's right to implant cognition-enhancing devices in their brains.

  5. How Much Should Sex Matter?
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    How Much Should Sex Matter?

    Apr 13, 2012 Peter Singer & Agata Sagan

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    The Language of Political Control

    Robert Skidelsky views recent linguistic innovations as manipulative efforts to compel “correct” thought and perception.
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    Globalization vs. Democracy

    Kaushik Basu highlights the contradictions and vulnerabilities inherent in the current international order.
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    The West’s New Infrastructure Imperative

    Diane Coyle explains why a broader conception of the term could reflect a renewed interest in investing in the future.
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    An Iran-Israel War?

    Iran’s mass ballistic missile and drone attack on Israel last week raised anew the specter of a widening Middle East war that draws in Iran and its proxies, as well as Western countries like the United States. The urgent need to defuse tensions – starting by ending Israel’s war in Gaza and pursuing a lasting political solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – is obvious, but can it be done?

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    What a Climate-Aligned IMF Would Look Like

    Mohamed Nasheed & Rakesh Mohan explain how the managing director can fully position the institution to help the most vulnerable countries.
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    The Key to Transforming African Health

    Jayati Ghosh highlights efforts to foster scientific innovation and drug manufacturing on the continent.
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    China’s Rebalancing Imperative

    Stephen S. Roach

    The most successful development stories almost always involve major shifts in the sources of economic growth, which in turn allow economies to reinvent themselves out of necessity or by design. In China, the interplay of mounting external pressures, lagging household consumption, and falling productivity will increasingly shape China’s policy choices in the years ahead.

     explains why the Chinese authorities should switch to a consumption- and productivity-led growth model.
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    From Welfare State to Safe State in Latin America

    Jorge G. Castañeda & Carlos Ominami

    Designing a progressive anti-violence strategy that delivers the safety for which a huge share of Latin Americans crave is perhaps the most difficult challenge facing many of the region’s governments. But it is also the most important.

     urge the region’s progressives to start treating security as an essential component of social protection.
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    The Urgency of Sovereign-Debt Restructuring

    José Antonio Ocampo highlights the need for a comprehensive mechanism to deliver relief to low- and middle-income countries.

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