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Michael Hobbes
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March 11, 2015
Michael Hobbes
VIDEO: Why Was the AIDS Crisis So Much Worse in the U.S. Than Western Europe?
November 18, 2014
Michael Hobbes
International Development Is Broken. Here Are Two Ways to Fix It.
November 18, 2014
Michael Hobbes
Stop Trying to Save the World
Big ideas are destroying international development
July 3, 2014
Michael Hobbes
Photos: Street Life in the Traffic Capital of the World
July 3, 2014
Michael Hobbes
Welcome to the Traffic Capital of the World
What I learned from the crippling gridlock in Dhaka, Bangladesh
May 16, 2014
Michael Hobbes
Can You Really Compare the AIDS Crises in the U.S. and Western Europe?
The statistical quirks of looking at AIDS across countries
May 13, 2014
Michael Hobbes
Why Did AIDS Ravage the U.S. More Than Any Other Developed Country?
Solving an epidemiological mystery
January 6, 2014
Michael Hobbes
How Did Zimbabwe Become So Poor—And Yet So Expensive?
The shockingly high prices of one of Africa's most impoverished countries
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