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Battery Powered: The Promise of Energy Storage

March 18, 2015
Fortunes in the energy industry can shift overnight, with prices, alternative sources and progress in technology. Improving batteries’ capability to store energy would galvanize the renewables industry. “The key to unlocking renewables’ potential is thus stationary energy storage, batteries that...

Times of India: Khashoggi Mystery

October 22, 2018
The death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul puts a spotlight on Saudi-US relations and investigations that seem more about spinning stories to ease public concerns than getting at the truth. “The Khashoggi mystery is proving hard to solve not because it is such a...

Muslims Craft Their Own Video Games

June 7, 2006
Syrian video-game pioneer Afkar Media is committed to a positive portrayal of Islam through new video games that feature Muslims and Arabs as heroes instead of villains. Their most recent release, named “Al-Quraysh” for the tribe of the Prophet Muhammad, is a strategy video game that follows the...

China Sees Globalization’s Downside – Part II

October 13, 2010
A poster child of successful globalization, China has recently taken some knocks from the process. This YaleGlobal series explores how China’s global connections brought prosperity but some unpleasant surprises as well. By leveraging its economic might and organizing power of the state, China has...

Mothers Want Hope for Their Children

April 19, 2006
The tide of illegal immigrants to American shores has become unmanageable, with numbers far outstripping those at any other time in US history. Immigrants take jobs that are unpopular with native US workers, often at reduced wages, thus allowing US firms to compete globally. The immigrant workforce...

Degrees and Dollars

March 8, 2011
The message is bleak: Education does not automatically lead to jobs, suggests Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist. To maximize profits, corporate executives steadily relocate factories to nations with low-cost workers or try fast-improving technology for tasks performed by well-paid, educated...

Wall Street Journal: Fewer Foreign Students in US

November 14, 2018
US enrollment of international students has declined for the second year in a row, amid worries about gun violence, harsh immigration policies, resentment over trade and a culture of nativism. “Foreign students are big business,” writes Michelle Hackman and Douglas Belkin for the Wall Street...

Strike on Syria for Chemical Weapons – Not Illegal

October 3, 2013
The world wrestles over what to do when nations and the UN Security Council fail in their responsibility to protect civilians from atrocities. A strike, as threatened by US President Barack Obama for a chemical weapons attack on Syrians, would have been legal, argues Harold Hongju Koh, former dean...
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