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The Scarlet Debtor

by Jeff Madrick,

Debt forgiveness is one of the most important innovations of modern capitalism, but it is a fairly recent one. Though the Constitution gives Congress explicit authority to enact “uniform Laws…

Glaciers for Sale

by McKenzie Funk,

A global-warming get-rich-quick scheme

McKenzie Funk Searches Iceland for the Man who Tried to Sell Glaciers

by Harper’s Magazine,

“There was no country more in the thrall of commercial banking and paper wealth. . . . All this helped explain why no one in Iceland seemed worried about building an economy on water, not when the last one had been built on air.”

The best and the brightest

Translated by Peter John R. Buchan,

Pyramides in Iceland, 2004

by Henrik Saxgren,

Krisuvik geothermal field, Iceland

by Joan Myers,

Weekly Review

by Christopher Beha,

Israel bombed Hamas targets in Gaza for three days, killing at least 300 people, 50 of them civilians, and blowing up a mosque and a television station. Palestinians seeking to…

Weekly Review

by Sam Stark,

Caught in the Web, 1860. Governments around the world attempted to slow the global financial catastrophe. Der SpiegelNYTThe stock market in Iceland reopened after a three-day suspension and immediately plunged…

News From Nowhere

by Rebecca Solnit,

Iceland’s polite dystopia

Weekly Review

by Sam Stark,

Caught in the Web, 1860. Oil reached a record $139.89 a barrel. Four Western companies met with Iraq’s Oil Ministry to finalize no-bid contracts to tap Iraqi oil fields, and…

Weekly Review

by Claire Gutierrez,

An American cattleman. Members of a North African faction of Al Qaeda detonated bombs at the U.N. complex in Algeria and at the country’s Supreme Court, killing at least 26…

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The Scarlet Debtor

Glaciers for Sale

McKenzie Funk Searches Iceland for the Man who Tried to Sell Glaciers

The best and the brightest

Pyramides in Iceland, 2004

Krisuvik geothermal field, Iceland

Weekly Review

Weekly Review

News From Nowhere

Weekly Review

Weekly Review

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