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Pakistan's Partial War on Terror

October 15, 2009
Pakistan is now reaping the bitter harvest of what it had sown by cultivating Islamic militants. Islamabad believed that it could use militants and terrorists to keep India in check and as a hedge for maintaining influence in Afghanistan should the US withdraw. But the recent uptick in suicide...

Central Banks Are Already Doing the Unthinkable - You Just Don't Know It

March 21, 2016
International Monetary Fund staff have called the past eight years an “era of extraordinary monetary policy,” with central banks applying more than 600 interest-rate cuts since 2008. “But the new wave of policy accommodation has ushered in fresh panic that monetary policy is suddenly subject to...

Micro-credit Pioneer Gets Nobel for Peace

October 13, 2006
The Grameen Bank of Bangladesh and Muhammad Yunus, its founder, have won the latest Nobel Peace Prize in recognition for their work using microcredit loans to lift millions of women out of poverty. In the past, banks in the developing world rarely lent to the poor, trapping farmers in a cycle of...

The Losers of Deglobalization

November 22, 2016
Brexit and Donald Trump’s presidency both rode to success on a wave of nationalistic fervor, based on the view that globalization on balance harms the UK and the US. Yet the histories of those countries demonstrate that economic protectionism can lead to political instability and worse, total war....

France-Amérique: NATO and the Trump Enigma

April 3, 2017
French diplomats and pundits admit to confusion over US President Donald Trump's goals and opinions about NATO. An essay goes on to pose multiple questions and suggests that longstanding US allies such as France do not expect clear answers, with analysts wondering whether Trump deliberately...

Wildlife at the Mercy of International Trade Politics

March 5, 2013
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species regulates trade on endangered wildlife – so far 5000 animals and 29,000 plants. The parties meet about every three years, and at this year’s meeting in Bangkok, the US will propose a ban on trade in polar bears and their parts – a proposal...

New York Times: Resistance Inside the Trump Administration

September 6, 2018
The United States is in democratic crisis with chaos in the White House and ongoing questions about the president’s capabilities. The New York Times took the extraordinary step of publishing an anonymous opinion essay said to be written by a senior official in the Trump administration, among the...

BBC: Graphene-Based Sieve Turns Seawater Into Drinking Water

April 4, 2017
More than 95 percent of earth’s water is saltwater in the oceans. A research team with the University of Manchester has created a sieve that may remove salt from seawater. Testing is underway and “The sought-after development could aid the millions of people without ready access to clean drinking...
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