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Activism Gets Rolling in Taiwan

June 8, 2011
The deepest respect for a society often comes from those who criticize and take corrective action. Writing for the New York Times, Ralph Jennings tells the story about a US-born lawyer who moved to Taiwan in 1977, becoming a citizen 26 years later to fight for environmental causes. In 2003, Robin...

Once Again Divided

October 20, 2003
It's not only the western media's portrayal of the Iraqi war that has Arab journalists up in arms – some are not so happy at the perceived inaccuracies in other Arab sources. At the Third Arab Media Forum last week in Dubai, discussions disintegrated into shouting matches as journalists...

Muslim Alienation Risk in Europe

February 26, 2007
Integrating Muslims into European society has proven difficult for many EU member states. Fears of stereotypical extremism run rampant in non-Muslim populations, and Islamophobic incidents are on the rise in the EU, though still under-reported. A report from the European Monitoring Centre on...

McCain, Obama and Hot Air

July 17, 2008
Both John McCain and Barack Obama have focused their climate-change policies on efforts to reduce carbon emissions. The controversial Bjorn Lomborg, however, argues that reducing carbon emissions will cause great harm to the world economy while doing little to stop global warming. Instead,...

奥巴马首度出访应该去中国

December 12, 2008
美国当选总统巴拉克•奥巴马面临着大量紧迫的经济和安全挑战。但耶鲁大学国际贸易和金融学教授、前美国商业和国际贸易部副部长杰里弗•加藤认为，这并不意味着奥巴马政府就应当忽视跟中国建立更紧密联系的重要性。中美两国需要彼此合作，一起振兴陷入衰退的全球经济，制定规则来应对气候变化和鼓励开发替代性能源，以及设计一个向更广泛的多极治理机制过渡的计划——把一个只有7国的集团替换为一个由20个主要国家构成的集团。加腾认为，“这个‘中央王国’ 跟美国内政外交上的利益都紧密联系，其他国家无法望其项背。而且，鉴于中国的经济增长率、2万亿美元的外汇储备、在世界经济中地位的不断上升以及在全球范围的影响日益扩大，...

Celebrate Koran Oath as an All-American Moment

January 5, 2007
Critics lashed out at one US congressman’s decision to use the Koran rather than a Bible for taking his oath for office. Some critics said Keith Ellison’s decision to use the Koran “undermines American civilization.” Indeed, most members of Congress don’t use any book at all. Ellison’s decision to...

Europe Close to Creating “Budget Tsar”

November 15, 2011
With European countries struggling to get a control on debt, the European Commission is taking steps to appoint one person responsible for scrutinizing finances. Rival commissioners could not over-ride disciplinary measures imposed by the commissioner for economics and monetary affairs on nations...

Iraq Teach-In QA

Bruce Ackerman et all
March 26, 2003
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