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The kidney shortage in the United States is expensive for those affected. And if it's too expensive, it's often fatal. Iran has dramatically alleviated the kidney shortage by allowing donors to be compensated.

The Kidney Sellers: A Journey of Discovery in Iran

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Are there really be 300,000 French people in London and would they really want to leave France for the UK anyway? The Mayor of London, British journalists and commentators have trotted out this "fact" a number of times over the last few years to illustrate just how popular the UK?s capital is with its neighbours across the Channel. It appears that Nicolas Sarkozy may have said it as far back as 2008. Wesley Stephenson and Charlotte McDonald brush off their best French to find out the truth. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.

It's easy to laugh at North Korea's backwardness, but that laughter encourages us to ignore the government's brutality in the least free nation on earth. Michael Malice, in his new book, attempts to demystify the regime.

DEAR READER: The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Jong Il

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Bills to raise revenue are supposed to start in the U.S. House. So why did ObamaCare receive the "gut and replace" treatment when it arrived in the Senate?

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The President's plan to reform National Security Agency surveillance would nullify one form of bulk collection of Americans' phone records, but leaks about NSA implicate the agency is a far wider range of mischief.

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The number of states with zero school choice options gets smaller every year. Bob Bowdon of Choice Media evaluates the state of educational freedom for children in the United States.

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Tesla Motors makes "premium electric" automobiles, but some state-level protectionists don't like that Tesla owns its own dealerships.

Tesla and the Red-State Blues

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Could Bayesian statistics find Flight MH370 from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing? This niche form of statistical modelling has been used to find everything from submarines to missing people. More or Less explores how it was used to locate the wreckage of Air France flight 447 from Brazil to France which disappeared in 2009. This programme was first broadcast on the BBC World Service.

Sanctions on foreign countries that do bad things don't tend to achieve the desired results, but what about lifting punitive trade restrictions on countries in need? Bill Watson calls them "anti-sanctions."

Let's Try Anti-Sanctions

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