Leo W. Gerard, 11.06.2009
President, United Steelworkers International
China doesn't consider America first or the remainder of the world first. And that's what the USA must do. We need an industrial policy that makes no apologies for putting America and American workers first.
Gilbert B. Kaplan, 11.06.2009
Former Deputy Assistant and Acting Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Department of Commerce
We have neglected the manufacturing base of our economy in much the same way we have neglected financial regulation. There simply is no manufacturing policy in the United States.
Jim Luce, 11.06.2009
Thought Leaders and Global Citizens
Flashbulbs popping non-stop, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations in New York, entered the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New ...
Rebecca Sive, 11.05.2009
Community organizer and women's rights activist
Chicago Mayor Harold Washington never did move away from his people; he stuck with them; he delivered for them. The result: They stuck with him.
Gary Shapiro, 11.05.2009
President & CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association
As the U.S. unemployment rate climbs toward 10 percent and the economy faces a lengthy and uncertain recovery process, Congress and the last two admin...
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, 11.05.2009
Professor of History, UC Irvine
There exist complex ties between the International Exhibition lineage that the 2010 Shanghai Expo will continue, on the one hand, and Disney theme parks, on the other.
Norb Vonnegut, 11.04.2009
Wealth adviser who writes about Wall Street's behavior behind the headlines.
Andy Kessler suggests that it's impossible for investors to get a short-term trading edge. It's better to make long-term investments based on big-picture trends.
Lance Simmens, 11.04.2009
Has spent the last three decades involved in a variety of public policy issues.
Why is it that it is easier to take the country into war without justification than it is to ensure that every American is entitled to health care?
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen, 11.03.2009
Co-Hosts, Green News Report
IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT: The clock is running out on the road to Copenhagen; Oil company slapped with record fine; Another toxic Chinese import? ......
Peter Bosshard, 11.03.2009
International Rivers, Policy Director
China and the world cannot afford more boondoggles in the mold of the Three Gorges Dam. A public discussion of the project's costs and benefits is now needed.
Amb. Marc Ginsberg, 11.03.2009
Former US Amb. to Morocco
So far this year, there has been a tendency to vocalize intent and engage in convenient can-kicking, rather than actionable resolve. That's not timidity -- that's testing the state of the ship's rudder.
Andy Worthington, 11.04.2009
Journalist and author of "The Guantanamo Files"
I am drawing together here the stories of six men who, nearly eight years after their wrongful and mistaken capture, are finally free from Guantánamo, even if an uncertain future awaits them.
Evelyn Leopold, 10.31.2009
Veteran reporter at the United Nations
The aim is to set standards for the global $55 billion export business in guns, tanks, attack helicopters, jet fighters, missiles and other conventional weapons.
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet, 10.30.2009
Editors of Simple Intelligence
This Week's Top Stories in Foreign Affairs:
Iran Rejects Uranium Transfer Deal
SI Analysis: In a show of shrewd and bizarre diplomacy, Iran says tha...
Michael DeJong, 10.29.2009
Environmentalist, artist and author
Now don't get me wrong, I enjoy festive holidays as much as the next person, but we eco-freaks can't help ourselves from sucking the fun out of things, particularly when it comes to harming children.
Betwa Sharma, 10.29.2009
Betwa is the NY/UN correspondent for the Press Trust of India.
Prison conditions worldwide are worse than the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture could have imagined. Jails without air, toilets and food are not rare.
Bernard Pollack, 10.29.2009
We've been reading about how China is investing in African agriculture for a few years now, but this week is the first time we've really seen what that means on the ground.
Chris Weigant, 10.29.2009
Author, Political Commentator, and Blogger (ChrisWeigant.com)
Technology has grown by such leaps and bounds since 1969 that it's hard to conceive how things were before we all had access to computers.
Jim Luce, 10.27.2009
Thought Leaders and Global Citizens
Clif, 71, husband of Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, passed away in September after climbing one of the tallest mountains in the world, Mt. Cho Oyu, between Nepal and China.
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D., 10.26.2009
Founder and president of Pratch
The very rich and the very poor exist under capitalism and communism. We must look to the middle class, and its size and growth, to see the secret of capitalism.
Robert Amsterdam, 10.26.2009
International lawyer on emerging markets, politics of business, and rule of law
The ungrateful chauvinism of U.S. foreign policy reaches far beyond a rant provided by Joe Scarborough, who at least has the excuse of being in the business of manufacturing polemics.