I’m taking a break from my series on governance to post the source code for an agent-based model I created called Creatures.

Fidel Castro is fading away as nature achieves what 50 years of American policy did not. The FT reports: Mr Castro of late had become a mere shadow in the background who had been neither seen nor heard from for months, leading to the latest spate of death rumours and his retort: get used to […]

The case against NGO workers in Egypt brought to light some deep anti-American sentiment in the Egyptian government and public, but it also sheds light on a gray area of U.S. foreign policy. “Quangos”, as the Brits call them—quasi non-governmental organizations—operate partly as non-affiliated promoters of democracy and freedom abroad. But they receive U.S. government […]