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.

End of Silk Road as FBI Shuts Down Illicit Website

Website offering drugs and other illegal goods was up for two years
Stuart Pfeifer, Shan Li, Walter Hamilton
October 7, 2013

China Intensifies Internet Crackdown

Online criticism of the government equals defamation
Jamil Anderlini
September 16, 2013

Communities Should Continue to Benefit From Mobile Revolution

Human rights emerges as a corporate concern
Sifiso Dabengwa
September 2, 2013

New York Police Label Mosques as Terrorist Organizations

Federal judge rewrote rules to allow secret blanket surveillance
Adam Goldman, Matt Apuzzo
August 30, 2013

Mosque or Modernity?

Reforms may yet emerge from within Islam
Michel Rocard
August 28, 2013