In 2005, the US arrested 1.2 million people attempting to cross the US-Mexico border in Arizona’s Arivaca Valley. About half that number were successful journeying through the treacherous desert, encouraged by words on the Statue of Liberty that welcome immigrants from the world over – “Give me...
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American steel companies and their representatives in Congress called on President Bush to rescue their dying industry and increase steel tariffs this spring. He did so, infuriating the European Union, which then filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization, arguing that the U.S. was...
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South Africa’s government allowed the Sudanese president accused of genocide and other war crimes to leave the country – thus weakening the position of the International Criminal Court. “The act of defiance by the president, Jacob Zuma … places him at the head of a growing band of African leaders...
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Nonprofits and NGOs are growing in scale, creating banks and financing mechanisms that in turn review proposals and fund smaller efforts in target areas whether education, housing or health care. Venture philanthropy support, as explained by an article in Stanford Social Innovation Review, includes...
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The Clinton Foundation’s website, transparent about the source of its donations, lists names of major foreign donors including those from Australia, Saudi Arabia and Sweden. The website also insists that “Secretary Clinton was not involved in the work of the Foundation when she was serving as...
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Old electronic devices contain a wealth of gold and silver that can often be recovered at a higher rate than most extant mines. But this electronic trash is going to waste. Most developing nations lack the infrastructure to recycle old technology products, while in developed nations most of the...
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China and the United States disagree on many issues – including claims for the South China Sea, intellectual property protections, open access to the internet and free speech. Leaders of the world’s two largest economies also have reason to cooperate on global initiatives. Xi Jinping, China’s...
Wary welcome: US President Barack Obama welcomes Chinese President Xi Jinping with pomp and ceremony, top, but suspicion over Chinese expansionist designs as seen in the satellite image of an airstrip built on artificial island in the South China...
US President Obama suggested that one of his biggest regrets failure to plan for Libya after the 2011 NATO intervention. Libya is a failed state, but that does not mean intervention was wrong, argues Shadi Hamid, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution, for Vox. “The goal was to protect...
Read the article from Vox. Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow at the Project on US Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Middle East Policy and the author of the forthcoming book Islamic Exceptionalism: How the...
