Katherine Krauss

In response to some of the comments posted on my blog about optimism for an increasingly less violent world, I would like to clarify my views on optimism, realism, cynicism and pessimism, so as not to be mistaken for a foolishly naïve optimist, but also to criticize the...

This time one year ago, the entire Mediterranean Arab world was plunged into the chaos of the Arab Spring Revolutions, and no one could quite tell the outcome. One spring later, as the countries in this region begin to settle down, I would like to analyze the political trends of...

When looking over my past blog entries, I realized that a common theme among them has been the need for mutual tolerance (and if not, amnesty) so that global collaboration can be achieved. While I still believe this to be true, I realized that when taken with the violence of...

Two weeks ago, China and Russia vetoed a United Nations resolution to urge Syrian President Basahar al-Assad to step down from office and relinquish his hold on the government. While China and Russia were obviously motivated by their own political agendas to such an action, it is important...

The state of the environment and the effects of global climate change are two of the most hotly debated issues of our era. What kind of world will we leave to our children, and how will we achieve that kind of world? Shall we sit back and accept the fact...

In the December edition of National Geographic, senior environment editor Robert Kunzig wrote an article about how the world will support the seven billion people that the earth is predicted to have before long. In the article, Kunzig supported the global trend of urbanization, stating that urbanization is...