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Moments Before the Union, "Old" Europe Gets Cold Feet

March 3, 2004
As Europe's leaders prepare for their expansion party, they fear immigrant gate-crashers. Shada Islam notes that widespread fears of immigrants flooding Western Europe in search of employment, welfare, and health benefits has forced many governments to enact restrictions to stem this supposed...

¿Quo vadis, Estados Unidos?

July 13, 2004

Double Vision in Beirut

May 12, 2005
In the three months since the assassination of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri, the Middle Eastern country has seen a remarkable transformation. Large-scale and tenacious street protests resulted in the resignation of the incumbent pro-Syrian prime minister. As Western powers...

Match Speech With Action

September 8, 2014
Political leaders understand what their countries must do to compete in global markets and create sustainable economies over the long term. Education systems must prepare students with a skill set – reading for understanding complicated directions and to conduct research; math, critical thinking...

Abenomics: What Japan’s Economic Experiment Can Teach the Rest of the World

August 16, 2016
Japan’s economy shifted from being the envy of the world in the 1980s to today's case study in stagnation. The country's nominal GDP for 2015 is mostly unchanged from levels in 1995 even as the US nominal GDP grew by more than 130 percent, reports the Economist. “To reflate Japan and...

How Walmart Is Changing China

November 23, 2011
Walmart is working with China to identify and reduce waste in packaging, shipping and energy use, explains China expert Orville Schell in an article for the Atlantic. Any cost-saving idea can be multiplied among thousands of suppliers, thousands of stores, millions of employees and shoppers. Since...

Indonesian Democracy’s Enemy Within

December 1, 2005
The common wisdom that democracy will help subdue the Islamic militantism is being questioned in Indonesia. While the world condemns the terrorists who have struck Indonesia in recent years, Sadanand Dhume reports that one of Indonesia's own political parties embraces those terrorists'...

Independent: Investors With $2.8 Trillion in Assets Unite Against Climate Change Denial

February 16, 2017
Taking steps to end reliance on fossil fuels and curb climate change is on the agenda at the meeting of foreign ministers of the world’s 20 largest economies in Bonn, Germany. “But as G20 foreign ministers meet on Thursday to prepare for a climate change summit in Hamburg in July, managers of funds...
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