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Crisis at the US Border

July 3, 2019
The United States has tried tough border policies with the hope of deterring migration and asylum requests. But the number of unauthorized entries have spiked in 2019, more than double that of previous years, reports US Customs and Border Protection. About 600,000 men, women and children, half of...

America’s Allies Brace for a Perfect Storm

October 29, 2019
US foreign policy is in chaos after the president impulsively withdrew US troops from northeast Syria and abandoned Kurdish allies who led the ground war against Islamic State extremists. Turkey then launched military operations against the minority ethnic group. That decision was made as an...

The Wall Street Journal: China Is Winning the Global Race to Control Batteries

February 15, 2018
China listed electric vehicles as one of seven strategic priorities in 2011 and now dominates the markets for batteries from mining cobalt in Africa to production. More than half of the world’s cobalt is in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and a Wall Street Journal articles describes small-...

Turkish-German Integration Smooths Cultural Divisions

January 30, 2004
In an interview with Germany's F.A.Z. Weekly, the Turkish ambassador to Germany, Mehmet Ali Irtemcelik, discusses the importance of integrating German Muslims of Turkish descent, Germany's largest immigrant group, into mainstream German society. The erroneous perception of all Muslims as...

Study: Decline of Traditional Media Feeds Polarization

October 3, 2016
Most citizens have access to more community information than ever before, especially online. But the struggle of traditional news outlets, especially the community newspaper with declining budgets and staff members, contributes to fewer informed voters. “[P]eople today are exposed to news mixed...

Financial Regulation: Facing a Global Challenge

May 13, 2011
Without global interventions, the outcome of the recent global crisis could have been far worse. Finance is an essential tool for unlocking capital, economic development and innovation, and writing for ParisTech Review, André Lévy-Lang outlines features and weaknesses of modern finance and its...

McClatchy: FBI Checks If Russian Money Went to NRA

January 19, 2018
A counterintelligence investigation is underway by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation on whether a banker – Alexander Torshin, deputy governor for the Russian central bank – secretly transferred funds to the National Rifle Association to help the Donald Trump presidential election campaign. “It...

Chinese Territorial Strife Hits Archaeology

December 4, 2013
Shoals and reefs dotting the South China Sea, now subject to competing claims from several nations, once presented treacherous traps for passing ships over the centuries. International law on deep-sea shipwrecks is murky, and recovery rights clash with preservation and research efforts. Owners,...
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