New Headlines, General Studies Topics and Current Affairs Topics 3rd June 2018

1. Three scenarios illustrate the threat of a nuclear device in rogue hands
2. Talking hypothetically
3. A podcast on the 2016 edition of \"The World If\"
4. If economists reformed themselves
5. Reforming economists’ tools
6. If China embarked on mass privatisation
7. How China sells its state-owned enterprises matters as much as whether it does
8. If financial systems were hacked
9. Recent attacks give a glimpse of the sort of cyber-assault that could bring the world economy to a halt. Better defences are needed
10. Data snapshots
11. If computers wrote laws
12. Might future law-school graduates look to machines rather than the judges
13. If the ocean was transparent
14. The ability to peer unhindered into the deep would reveal a host of wonders—and have huge practical consequences
15. If everyone had a personal drone
16. What if Germany had not reunified
17. Joining East and West together within NATO and the European Union was the worst option
18. If Hillary Clinton is president
19. She won the election by leaning right on national security and left on the economy. Now comes the fallout
20. If Russia breaks up
21. The world rightly worries about the prospect of a Greater Russia. But a Lesser Russia could be just as troubling
22. If a NATO member comes under attack
23. How the West would recognise
24. If lying made your nose grow
25. If the yuan competes with the dollar
26. The yuan’s rise will challenge America
27. If the world introduces a “Piketty tax”
28. Thomas Piketty
29. If the Panama Canal gets a rival
30. Why a Chinese firm might dig a giant waterway through America’s backyard
31. Slower growth - disaster or blessing?
32. If the rich world aimed for minimal growth
33. If Africa banks its demographic dividend
34. The difference economic reforms could make for Africa
35. If autonomous vehicles rule the world