How to overthrow Kim Jong IlA four-part manifesto by lawyer Joshua Stanton on how and why the West must help fuel an uprising in North Korea. It will be painful, expensive, and long, but if the country’s only hope is to break it down and rebuild from scratch.
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Gittins: Australia is no longer a miner player
Australia has a long history of brilliant political ideas — preferential voting, HECs system — yet lately we wimp out on big ideas that have international repercussions. We’re not as small as we think we are, writes Ross Gittins.
The net worth of every US President compared
The Atlantic has calculated the net worth of every US president in today’s dollars, shedding an interesting perspective on Obama’s wealth: he’s positively poor compared to the likes of Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, JFK and Lyndon Johnson.
What are words worth on the web?
A look at the complex economics of online media: “Opinions posted on blogs are cheap. Great journalism is expensive.” So should online media editors prize hits over high-quality content? And what are words on the internet actually worth?
