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Bridge to Somewhere

Jose W. Fernandez November 20, 2013
The US now aims to apply aid for international development in strategic ways. As the global middle class expands, most growth takes place in Brazil, China, India, North Africa and other emerging economies, with 85 percent of growth anticipated in the Asia Pacific region alone, reports Jose Fernandez for Foreign Affairs. He anticipates countries to become more competitive on expanding “ports,...

Turkey Seeks to Lock in Long-Term Security

Soner Cagaptay November 18, 2013
Turkey briefly tried isolation until the Arab Spring when it pivoted toward the United States: “The two nations worked with other countries to oust Moammar Gaddafi in Libya that year and, early on, coordinated policies against the Assad regime,” writes Soner Cagaptay. But the United States could not win UN Security Council approval for sanctions or intervention in Syria, due to vetoes from...

US Health Care Reform Is Only Getting Started

Elizabeth H. Bradley, Lauren A. Taylor November 5, 2013
In Scandinavia, health care is a social good, and for the United States, it is a business. The differences on costs and outcomes are glaring. The US invests $8604 per capita on its system, compared with $5674 for Norway, $4564 for Denmark and $3870 for Sweden, according to the World Health Organization. Elizabeth H. Bradley, professor of public health at Yale University, and Lauren A. Taylor of...

Run Your Business From Overseas

Karen E. Klein October 28, 2013
Just as employees work remote, business owners can also operate a business from anywhere in the globe. Businessweek describes a man who ran a business that connects patients with affordable dentists in 27 nations, first from Mexico and then from Thailand. High-speed internet and free online tools like Dropbox or Skype aid remote management, explains Karen Klein. For some entrepreneurs, the move...

How Science Goes Wrong

October 25, 2013
Business interests like to think of themselves as taming science, selecting among the discoveries and presenting them to the world. Scientific research ultimately instigates new trends, comforts, life-saving treatments, new businesses and more. “But success can breed complacency,” suggests an essay in the Economist. “Modern scientists are doing too much trusting and not enough verifying – to the...

Kenya Pays Stiff Price for Intervening

Peter Fabricius September 26, 2013
Kenya’s intervention in the Somali civil war is the reason given for al-Shabab’s terrorist attack on Nairobi’s Westgate Mall that left dozens dead. The terrorist group, described as weakened in recent years by such intervention, controls much of southern and central Somalia, across the border to Kenya’s east. Kenyan troops had aided Ahmed Adobe, a Shabab rival in driving the group out of Somalia’...

With Labs Pumping Out Legal Highs, China Is New Front in Global Drug War

Charlie Campbell September 18, 2013
Factories in China are rapidly manufacturing synthetic drugs, meant to mimic the effects of illegal substances like marijuana or cocaine. The drugs, untested for health and safety, are sold around the world labeled as bath salts or plant food. New to regulators, the substances remain legal until health issues, including deaths, are reported. The US Drug Enforcement Administration describes,...