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- Marian Tupy examines the [failure of government-to-government aid](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10253) to Africa in *The Financial Times.*

- In *The Wall Street Journal*, John Hasnas [asks ](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10260)whether “compassion and empathy” are really characteristics we want in a judge.

- In the *South China Morning Post*, Ted Galen Carpenter examines [why North Korea ignores international calls for nuclear disarmament.](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10259)

- Richard W. Rahn reports on [the extreme changes](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10257) about to occur in the British government in *The Washington Times.*

- In Monday’s [Cato Daily Podcast](https://www.cato.org/dailypodcast/podcast-archive.php?podcast_id=908), Mark Calabria weighs in on “shadow banking” and the effort to regulate it.

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