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Nagasaki 1945: While Independents Were Scorned, Embed Won Pulitzer

July 7, 2005
Sixty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, some newly disclosed journalistic accounts offer a unique insight into wartime press controls. A copy of Chicago Daily News reporter George Weller's dispatches, which were stopped in 1945 by US military censors, has recently been...

South China Morning Post: China’s Textile Industry Faces Tough Times

May 3, 2018
The textile industry does not stay in one location for long. Instead, clothing and textile manufacturers move around the world, following automation and low wages from India, England, New England and the US South and more recently to China. Now the textile and clothing industry may be starting to...

Corruption in European Soccer: The New Yorker

June 11, 2019
The whistle-blowing organization Football Leaks has targeted corruption among dozens of soccer players, executives and clubs since 2015. Portuguese soccer aficionado Rui Pinto has reported on inflated salaries, large-scale tax evasion, controversial and secret deals and rape allegations against a...

To Avert Disaster the US Must Deal With North Korea

March 7, 2017
North Korea is rapidly developing its nuclear program, conducting multiple missile tests as well as two nuclear tests in 2016. The regime is also accused of using a chemical weapon to assassinate the North Korean dictator's half-brother who had been living under China’s protection. The brazen...

Why Globalization Is in Trouble – Part II

August 31, 2006
Globalization has spurred inequality – both among citizens in the wealthiest countries as well as among nations of the developing world. The second of this two-part series by Branco Milanovic explores the growing resentment as only a few poor countries adjust to globalization. China and India...

North Korean Threat Tests US-Chinese Relations

March 23, 2017
North Korea, intent on developing its nuclear weapons program, has conducted at least six increasingly advanced missile tests this year. The nation is a threat and could attack South Korea, Japan, US naval bases in the Pacific or even the US mainland in the not-so-distant future. Tackling this...

Illusion of Security From Singapore

June 19, 2018
North Korea’s Kim Jong-un returned home to a hero’s welcome for snagging a meeting with the US president and concessions including suspension of joint US–South Korea military exercises. Donald Trump returned with big promises, suggesting that Kim is “de-nuking the whole place, and he's going...

Scarborough Shoal: Rappler

November 14, 2019
China has repeatedly harassed foreign ships in the South China Sea. “The harassment of the Liberian registered tanker the Green Aura by Chinese naval and coast guard elements off Scarborough Shoal has generated a huge amount of debate and discussion, especially with regard to the manner in which...
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