Sunday Reads - The Best of Politics, Economics, & Ideas





This is easily one of the best collection of reads I could gather for your Sunday.




  • China falsifies data to mask slowdown. (NYT)



  • Forget Edison: This is how history's greatest inventions really happened. (The Atlantic)



  • No country for armed men: Pakistan is in such bad shape, even the generals do not want to run it. (Foreign Policy)



  • Audio-Visual Slideshow: How India plans to tackle its growing water crisis. (BBC)






Eurostat estimates that 24.7 million people in the EU27 (27 members of the European Union) were unemployed in April. The Reuters graphic below breaks those numbers out on a country-by-country basis.