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Is a US Brain Drain on the Horizon?

December 8, 2009
While a second Great Depression may have been averted, the unintended consequences of the Great Recession are just beginning to be felt. One such effect is reverse migration. As noted immigration researcher Vivek Wadhwa reveals, many foreign-born workers in high-tech industries are returning home...

The Futile Goal of “Winning” Wars

March 2, 2017
Wars and the technology for fighting them have evolved rapidly in recent decades. “We never win, and we don’t fight to win,” lamented US president Donald Trump shortly before announcing plans to increase US military spending. “We’ve either got to win, or don’t fight it at all.” However, Louis René...

Rappler: ASEAN’s Deafening Silence on Human Rights Violations

November 13, 2017
The 31st summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations was marked by a failure to address human rights. “This comes at a time when some citizens of most, if not all, of ASEAN member-states are experiencing some form of oppression by their own governments,” writes Jodesz Gavilan for Rappler...

Inequality and the Nature of Capital: A Reminder

June 17, 2014
Complaints about inequality have taken the West by storm, and that accounts for the success of the book “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” by economist Thomas Piketty. Inequality is not a new topic for developing nations, notes author Chandran Nair. “Piketty, like every other economist, seeks...

Rohingya Crisis Diminishes Suu Kyi

August 28, 2018
Nations have taken meaningless gestures on the highly visible Rohingya crisis a year after the Myanmar military burned villages and drove more than 700,000 minority people across the border into Bangladesh and beyond. Myanmar, insisting that the Rohingyas are not citizens, has redistributed their...

Nike Versus Sweatshop Critic: Back to California

June 27, 2003
Nike, the world's largest shoe manufacturer, could become the world's leader in improving labor standards across the globe. If US courts decide that it must, that is. The US Supreme court decided on June 26 to allow a California state court to proceed with a trial in which US-based Nike...

Everyone Can Help With Contact Tracing

May 13, 2020
Individuals and communities have some control over the spread of Covid-19. “As many communities in Europe, Asia and the Americas take steps to restart economies, public health departments rely on contact tracing to identify and isolate cases and prevent new waves of infections,” reports YaleGlobal...

Unwanted Immigrants: America’s Deportation Dilemma

July 27, 2010
Increased labor mobility has accompanied global population growth and ease of travel. The world has roughly 50 million illegal migrants, about one quarter of which live in the US. Nations widely oppose illegal immigration, but identifying, catching and then deporting violators present a huge...
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