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Can a White House Visit Shore Up a Sagging US-South Korea Alliance?

September 14, 2006
North Korea is the biggest common problem for both South Korea and the US, but the two presidents do not agree on strategy. As presidents Roh Moo-hyun and George Bush meet on September 14, their conversation could be awkward. Both men are stubborn about how to end the standoff over North Korea’s...

Immigration in Italy: Southern Misery

January 15, 2010
Rosarno, Italy has recently experienced a wave of anti-immigrant violence targeted at Africans, many of whom work as crop-pickers. Causes of such violence are multi-faceted. An influx of immigrants, many of whom entered illegally, created tensions with the existing population over employment and...

Confluence of Horrors, Global Impact Makes Japan's Tragedy a Transcendent Event in History

March 21, 2011
As humans learn from the experience of others and make accommodations, the tsunami and nuclear accident could transform many future endeavors, explains Joji Sakurai in an essay for the Canadian Press. Japan, an advanced economy, has been the second most generous foreign aid donor in the world and...

One Thousand Writers, One Flat World

February 18, 2008
Writers and readers celebrate diversity of voices, settings and stories – and yet that diversity is under attack by two competing sources, explained novelist Nayantara Sahgal in an opinion essay for Outlook India. One is a world of consumer marketing that aims to convince people that there is a...

EU Shoe Duty Trips Up Retailers

May 22, 2006
European consumers like bargains from Asia, but continental manufacturers expect protection from competition, fully expecting the government to increase tariffs on overseas products. So the EU trade commissioner aims for some compromise, for example, imposing tariffs on shoes for adults, but not...

Burmese Junta's Remedy: Crackdown

June 10, 2003
Despite international condemnation led by the United States, the ruling generals of Myanmar are continuing to crack down on supporters of the democratic opposition. The crackdown began last week when the opposition leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was attacked and arrested, prompting US President Bush...

Pollution Killing River They Said Was Too Big to Poison

June 6, 2006
The Yangtze River cuts a horizontal swath across the middle of China, supporting 400 million people, or one out of every fifteen on earth. Long thought to be immune to acute pollution because of its size, a report by the state-sponsored Xinhua news agency has shown that poisonous water threatens...

In Post-9/11 World, US President Has the Loneliest Job

September 10, 2007
That fateful day in September six years ago brought about a changed world for the US and a new world view of the US. The world is weary of the Iraq war, missed opportunities in diplomacy, unilateralism and a general belligerence associated with the Bush administration. The Pew Global Attitudes...
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