We are offshoring jobs faster than we can create them. We keep stimulating or bailing the economy boat as fast as we can but ignore the offshore hole in the bottom.
American Anthropological Association | Posted 05.24.2012
There are great cultural traditions that are rich, distinctive, and historically deep in virtually all parts of the world, and that have "identities" we can recognize, but that also exhibit multiple differences and divisions that create a jumble of identities within them.
Stacie Nevadomski Berdan | Posted 05.22.2012
America's schoolchildren today are regularly out-tested on math, science, history and English scores by students from around the world. But it's not our students' fault. They haven't been prepared properly by our school systems, which haven't been able to keep up with global changes.
John Feffer | Posted 05.22.2012
College is a lot like the Garden of Eden. It's a pretty place. The temptations are many. And just when you get a little taste of knowledge, the administration kicks you out. So, go out there and don't just see the world, but become involved in the world.
Eric X. Li | Posted 05.22.2012
As things slow down in Basel and Miami, leading galleries, dealers, collectors and artists who congregate here are setting the art world of the People's Republic abuzz. It seems to be only an interim culmination of a 20-year trend that shows no sign of slowing.
Michelle Chen | Posted 05.21.2012
Creative protest through film and media are forming a common language for a dialogue on migrants' rights, breaking their silence with one collective voice.
Marc Lafia | Posted 05.18.2012
The new empire still plays by the games of the old empires: of divisiveness, of scarcity, of might and fear, even while we have never had such abundance and innovation. It is this paradox that our documentary Empires sets out to unravel.
Eric X. Li | Posted 05.16.2012
This is a written Q&A with Rachel Beitarie of the Israeli daily newspaper the Calcalist, published on May 3, 2012. Beitarie: I would like to star...
Katherine Krauss | Posted 05.11.2012
I have chosen and would encourage others to adopt a brand of cynical optimism because it serves as a catalyst for the creativity that is needed to solve the world's most pressing problems.
Russell Mittermeier | Posted 05.10.2012
These biodiversity hotspots and wilderness areas must be among our top priorities for terrestrial conservation if we hope to preserve Earth's natural ecosystem services and biodiversity for future generations of people.
Robert Teitelman | Posted 05.08.2012
The real problem here is not necessarily the underlying economy -- does anyone really think stock markets accurately reflect the state of the real economy? -- but the structure and dynamics of the markets themselves.
Andrew Z. Cohen | Posted 05.01.2012
If 50 years ago you were to tell somebody that Americans would teach Enlightenment in India and that Asian seekers would come to California to learn about what the Buddha taught from an American Jew, they would never have believed you.
Wenonah Hauter | Posted 04.30.2012
China is importing 100,000 heifers to boost domestic dairy production in the wake of scandals that have decimated China's relatively small dairy industry. There are so many problems with this scenario, but here are just five.
Michelle Chen | Posted 04.30.2012
While officials convened at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena earlier this month, the White House put the finishing touches on another free trade agreement. The deal has faced vocal resistance from labor and human rights groups in both countries.
Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 04.25.2012
The United States needs to develop an industrial policy to make Corporate America want to invest and create jobs in our country.
Gregory Unruh | Posted 04.25.2012
Developing a global mindset does not come free -- it is something that has to be actively pursued. Smart international corporations are beginning to understand the importance of developing global mindsets within their ranks.
Robert Reich | Posted 04.24.2012
So many Americans are so angry and frustrated these days -- vulnerable to loss of job and healthcare and home, without a shred of economic security -- they're easy prey for demagogues offering simple answers and ready scapegoats. Take, for example, Bill O'Reilly.
Philip N. Howard | Posted 04.23.2012
If you want to start anticipating changes in international politics, watch the news for items about prisons, dig into a particular country's politics when its government is rigging an election, and keep track of the use and censorship of social media.
Nicolas Baverez | Posted 04.22.2012
The inability to develop a plan for the modernization of France in the world of the twenty-first century leads to the dissolution of the world as is, resulting only in speculation about a virtual world.
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.20.2012
U.S. multinationals are hiring. They're just doing a lot of it overseas these days. Multinational firms based in the United States expanded their w...
David de Ferranti | Posted 04.25.2012
Have you ever had to buy a long-lasting insecticide-treated bed net (LLIN)? Probably not, even if you live in Africa, where nine out of ten malaria-related deaths occur.
Gregory Unruh | Posted 04.18.2012
Successful global leaders have a curiosity about the world and interest in people different from themselves. This interest inspires visionary initiatives and organizations that span national boundaries.
Michelle Chen | Posted 04.09.2012
Work recently resumed in the Grasberg mine of the Freeport McMoran Copper & Gold, but the suffering continues while officials and multinationals maneuver to manage Southeast Asia's resource curse.
Christopher Holshek | Posted 04.02.2012
Failing states are failing states. The difference between over there and over here, however, is that we have been stacking the deck against ourselves.
Carlo Strenger | Posted 05.26.2012
There is only one way to lower the danger of nuclear terrorism and conflicts like that between Iran and Israel: the next generation needs to be educated within an ethics of global cooperation from earliest childhood onward.
Sen. Fritz Hollings | Posted 05.30.2012