Catholic Relief Services: What We Learned from the Indian Ocean Tsunami

Catholic Relief Services, 12.28.2009

Read more at http://crs.org/ By Cecile Sorra Even though Catholic Relief Services is an agency seasoned with more than 65 years' experience respondi...

The Copenhagen Accord: A Big Step Forward

David Doniger, 12.23.2009

Policy Director, NRDC Climate Center

Too many observers, in my view, are judging the Copenhagen Accord by the wrong yardsticks.

Goldman Sachs Helps 10,000 Women, Including Orphanage Director Andeisha Farid

Jim Luce, 12.29.2009

Thought Leaders and Global Citizens

In March 2008, Goldman Sachs announced a significant new initiative called 10,000 Women that has two goals: To increase the number of underserved wo...

Copenhagen: A Theater of the Absurd

Sam Black, 12.22.2009

Research Associate at the Stimson Center

I think we owe it to the Copenhagen participants to recognize that, for these two weeks, they made the debate over health care seem reasonable by comparison.

Hyderabad, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, India: Crisis

Vamsee Juluri, 12.21.2009

Author and Professor of Media Studies, University of San Francisco

Hyderabad is the sort of city that makes poets out of ordinary men. It has a history of being home to different sorts of people, accepting them with an easy charm that only Hyderabad knows.

Key Countries Agreed to Copenhagen Accord to Address Global Warming

Jake Schmidt, 12.21.2009

International climate policy director, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

World leaders -- most notably President Obama -- took over these negotiations and used everything in their power to push forward an agreement in Copenhagen.

The Obama Doctrine: Pen, Sword and Soap Box

Michael B. Laskoff, 12.20.2009

"...content against obedience..." W.S.

For some people, the assent of the Obama Doctrine will be uncomfortable: it's designed for a world rendered in shades of gray, not the black and white of easy demagoguery. Nevertheless, subtle should not be confused with weak.

Literacy in India: A Gift That Never Stops Giving

Marissa Bronfman, 12.18.2009

Writer

Since the early 1990s, every WLC program has given a pivotal role to women's groups in Hindi -- as they have proven to be extraordinarily powerful forces in promoting female literacy and empowerment in India.

Report From Copenhagen

Rep. Diana DeGette, 12.17.2009

U.S. Representative from Colorado

We told a delegation from India that no agreement can occur without transparency in reporting progress by the developing world. Without the ability to verify, what good is an agreement?

Copenhagen Blues: Obama's Weak Hand on Climate, and the California Option

William Bradley, 12.17.2009

California-based Political Analyst NewWestNotes.com

Obama has cobbled together some impressive-looking cards, including action in California. But he's nowhere near signing a Copenhagen Protocol, were one to emerge, which it will not.

Holiday Giving: Intimate Evenings with Acclaimed Authors and Rare Collector's Books

Marissa Bronfman, 12.14.2009

Writer

Giving is a given during December but why not give a little something extra special this holiday season that will delight the book lovers in your life and promote literacy abroad?

India's Civil Wars

Mira Kamdar, 12.14.2009

Author, Essayist, Aspiring Jazz Violinist

The Maoists have flourished in areas where the government of India has virtually abandoned the rural poor. These populations are completely cut off from the economically vibrant, rapidly growing India.

American Journalism: Think Globally, Build Trust Locally

Farai Chideya, 12.14.2009

Multi-media journalist and author

The public's assessment of press accuracy and fairness is at a two-decade low. In other words, the audience doesn't trust us. I believe the feeling is mutual: we don't trust the audience, either.

Old U.S. Allies Are Hedging Their Strategic Bets

Leon T. Hadar, 12.13.2009

Journalist and foreign affairs analyst

Washington should welcome the steps towards strategic adjustment being pursued by its allies and refrain from any attempt to force them to re-embrace to the old subservient approach towards the United States.

Nuclear Energy - Answer to Global Warming or Status Symbol? (update)

Evelyn Leopold, 12.11.2009

Veteran reporter at the United Nations

In the search for "green" alternatives to oil or coal, nuclear energy is expected to make a comeback - mainly in Russia, China, India and developing n...

How to escape the next lost decade

James Jubak, 12.14.2009

Investor columnist, founder JubakPicks.com

A $10,000 investment in the S&P 500 lost almost a thousand dollars over the last decade; a similar investment in Matthews China (MCHFX) would have grown to $53,097.29 over the same time period.

Afghanistan and Pakistan: Anatomy of a Proxy War

Bob Churcher, 12.10.2009

Ret. British Army Officer

Powerful elements in Pakistan will continue to support the Pashtun insurgency in Afghanistan no matter what Islamabad's government says or does. This is the core problem for Obama.

Chatting with UNICEF's Director Ann Veneman

Jim Luce, 12.14.2009

Thought Leaders and Global Citizens

I met UNICEF's executive director Ann M. Veneman recently at Her Majesty Queen Silvia of Sweden's World Childhood Foundation luncheon at the United Na...

Jewish Voices of Color Must be Heard

David A. Love, 12.09.2009

Writer and human rights advocate based in Philadelphia

As we enter this holiday season, Jews around the world will celebrate Hanukah. The Jewish community is a diverse one, a multicultural and multiracial assemblage, by no means monolithic, representing millions of people throughout the world.

Suketu Mehta: Bombay's Biographer

Christopher Lydon, 12.09.2009

Host of Open Source from Brown University

Suketu Mehta's masterwork, Maximum City, did for Bombay what the immortals Dickens and Balzac did for London and Paris.

And How Good Is India's Offer?

Carl Pope, 12.08.2009

Executive Director of the Sierra Club

India will keep its per capita emissions below those of the industrial nations, so the faster we reduce our emissions, the faster India's per capita emissions will peak.