Globalization wields powerful influence over societies and cultures. Business travelers and tourists both observe and distribute new ideas. New ideas, interactions, foods and products are tried, then embraced or discarded. With the internet or satellite television, films, publications, photographs, news reports and cartoons can travel instantly, entertaining or angering audiences around the globe. With social media like Facebook or Twitter, individuals offer news and own instant pronouncements on trends. Whether slowly through immigration or immediately online, these connections bring about some convergence of norms on fashion to human rights while also provoking challenges from traditionalists. A global society has emerged, and it’s tightly linked.

Exporting Censorship

US companies betray freedom of speech by selling censorship technology to repressive regimes
Xeni Jardin
March 15, 2006

That Good Education Might Not Be Enough

Few degrees are immune to the brunt of global competition
Peter G. Gosselin
March 15, 2006

Cartoons and the Globalization of Protests

As the world shrinks, the scope of conflict between the West and Islam widens
Paul Reynolds
February 28, 2006

The Basics: How to Outwit the World’s Internet Censors

It is possible to stay one step ahead of the Chinese government
Tom Zeller Jr.
February 1, 2006

From Cartoon War to Trade War

Despite an Iranian boycott of Danish products, descriptions of a “clash of cultures” are exaggerated
February 9, 2006