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Harvests at Risk With Squeezed Labor: Bloomberg

March 27, 2020
Governments’ go-to method for stopping the spread of COVID-19 is imposing travel limits on infected countries. Such limits could threaten food production in the United States, Europe and elsewhere. “American produce growers preparing to harvest crops are warning of a devastating impact on fruit and...

Rappler: Attempt to Silence Critics of Duterte

November 11, 2018
As their popular support wanes, leaders with authoritarian styles hurry to stifle criticism. Rodrigo Duterte was elected president of the Philippines in 2016, and his war on corruption has since expanded into attacks against critics. The Department of Justice has indicted Rappler Holdings...

Why Taxation Must Go Global

November 3, 2014
Citizens and businesses expect their governments to provide many programs – highways and other infrastructure, public health, and defense – but most despise paying taxes. “As a result of the growing pace and intensity of globalization and digitization, more and more economic processes have an...

Death at Sandheads

June 17, 2004
Mysteriously, merchant ships have sunk continuously at the Sandheads in India's Bay of Bengal, leading many to question why. More mysterious, however, is the fact that ships continue coming here and sinking. Official estimates indicate that at least 81 ships have gone down in this area in the...

Containerized Trade Imbalance Set to Worsen

March 25, 2004
A third of all shipping containers that land in Singapore are empty, according to recent surveys. This trend is set to continue throughout Asia, as more manufacturing shifts to the region. But shipping empty containers is costly – and worrisome to operators of shipping lines. The current imbalance...

Japan Joins the Exclusive Space Spy Club

March 31, 2003
To the surprise of its neighbors, Japan has taken action to protect itself from North Korea. After North Korea tested a ballistic missile in 1998, the usually slow-moving Japanese assembly decided immediately to build a space-based surveillance system. Japan launched two information-gathering...

Center for Public Integrity: TPS Cancellations in the US

May 8, 2018
Since 1990, the United States could grant temporary protected status for citizens of select countries with challenging conditions including conflict or disasters that prevented safe return. The Trump administration has announced an end of this protected status for citizens of Honduras as of January...

COP21: China Prepares to Act on Climate Change

December 1, 2015
The climate talks in Paris known as COP21 are underway, and world leaders confront overwhelming scientific evidence that catastrophe is inevitable if countries continue to rely on fossil fuels. Global awareness runs high about the increasing economic and security threats of volatile weather...
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