May 18, 2008
My next door neighbors are watching Chinese television. I self-consciously look up from time to time for a peek at them as they stare at Chinese news learning of the country they once fled. I watch with admiration and a thimble full of envy. Three generations under the same roof...
Nanette Fondas | Posted May 12, 2008 | Living
Many election-year observers have noted the absence of a compelling idea or framework to unite either party -- and ultimately the electorate -- in the Presidential race. Slogans like "change," "experience," and "security" don't suffice at a time when Americans are being pounded by waves of global, demographic, and technological...
Alvaro Fernandez | Posted May 7, 2008 | Living
In the past week, The New York Times has published two excellent articles on the growing brain and cognitive fitness market: David Brooks provides great perspective on the globalized Cognitive Age we live in, while Katie Hafner shows how cognitive training is gaining traction from a healthy aging point of...
Carol Maric | Posted May 6, 2008 | Politics
Dr. Gabriela D. Lemus and Hector E. Sanchez | Posted May 2, 2008 | Politics
On May 1, 2006 millions of immigrants and their supporters took to the streets in 140 cities in 39 states across the United States as part of a wave of mass marches that spring in repudiation of extreme anti-immigrant legislation, passed by Republicans in the House of Representatives. The vast...
Stacie Nevadomski Berdan | Posted April 30, 2008 | Business
Continued market jitters, increased layoffs and the decline of the U.S. dollar are causing angst in professional circles here in the U.S. Worries about the viability of sub-prime mortgage lending have hit financial systems hard, while soaring oil prices have affected most every other sector. Economic slowdown, recession, hard times...
Derek Flood | Posted April 27, 2008 | Politics
A column of frail women and children in brilliant cotton tunics deftly balance aluminum jars atop their heads as they trundle down a steep, eroded jungle hillside. They are spending most of their day in search of the area's most valuable commodity, clean drinking water. After hours of searching, what...
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted March 31, 2008 | Business
Today was eye-opening to say the least. Muhammad Yunus is in Paris for the French release of his book entitled, Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism...and spending two hours listening and exchanging with this visionary human being gives me more hope than anything...
An article in the Washington Post in response to their question: Is E-mail a blessing or a curse? The Devil is in the E-mails
Click: www.intentblog.com
David McWilliams | Posted March 12, 2008 | Business
The other day, I listened to Latin American economists and business leaders discuss the US recession. The Mexican central bank governor, referring to the carnage on Wall Street, the sub-prime crisis, and the credit crunch, jokingly remarked: ''At least WE didn't cause it this time."
He was referring to the...
Benjamin R. Barber | Posted March 4, 2008 | Politics
Senators Obama and Clinton are competing in the Senator Edwards sweepstakes to prove who can be more hostile to free trade and critical of NAFTA - although neither has been notably critical in the past. Obama says he is going to bring jobs back to Wisconsin; Clinton is making protectionist...
Financial Times | Chris Giles | February 25, 2008 08:57 PM
John Sweeney | Posted February 8, 2008 | Politics
Adam Klappholz | Posted February 3, 2008 | Business
Somewhere in the warm southern Mediterranean Sea, a leather-faced sailor with a pipe balanced gently on his chapped lip lowers his anchor for the night. As the chain descends hundreds of feet, the anchor finds a firm landing beneath a large Internet cable that serves portions of Asia, the Middle...
Vivian Norris de Montaigu | Posted January 28, 2008 | Business
Over twenty years ago, when a little known governor in Arkansas, Bill Clinton, and his wife, heard about a Bangladeshi economics professor turned banker-to-the-poor, they wanted to know more. How did these small loans to help build local businesses work? Why were they loaning mostly to women? And could it...
Louise Blouin MacBain | Posted January 3, 2008 | Politics
[Since 2001, the Doha Round trade negotiations initiated by the World Trade Organization and its member nations have been working towards the development of a global trade agreement that would liberalize global markets, primarily in the areas of agriculture, manufacturing and services, in order to reduce poverty and promote economic...
Jonathan Tasini | Posted December 28, 2007 | Politics
At the end of the day, when the madness of our election process is over, each of us is likely, no matter who we individually supported, to be disappointed. But, as I've pointed out since the 2006 elections, there is much to be optimistic about when it comes to...
James P. Hoffa | Posted December 10, 2007 | Business
George Washington, protectionist, made it a point to wear an American-made suit to his first inauguration.
The father of our country understood that America has to protect its ability to make things important to Americans. Today that means things like steel. Brake drums. Airplane parts. Computer chips. Battleships. Safe...
Craig Kielburger and Marc Kielburger | Posted December 7, 2007 | Living
The young woman stood alone in a silent, darkened auditorium, thousands of youth watching her as she lit a single candle that barely illuminated her face.
"I'm only one person. What difference can I make?" she quietly asked.
Then she turned to the four people closest to her and lit...
Lionel Beehner | Posted November 27, 2007 | Media
We are losing the war on vagueness. Writers, pundits, and politicians like never before are trotting out expressions empty of meaning and devoid of substance. And surprisingly those guiltiest are not the candidates running for office--they are the columnists within the commentariat, who actually get paid to write thoughtful prose...
From the AP: Democrat John Edwards endorsed former rival Barack Obama on Wednesday, a...
*** UPDATED BELOW *** President Bush has said repeatedly that he would not insert himself into the...
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Tonight, Keith Olbermann unleashed what may well have been his...
The AP reports on Obama's swift and forceful response to Bush and McCain's criticism of...
The Tennessee GOP hasn't yet had their fill of Obama dirty tricks. A few months ago,...
***UPDATE*** Roughly five hours after making comments about...
The Democratic Party has finally decided who's going to break it to Hillary that it's time...
Sixteen tips for getting good sleep. There's a lot of advice out there about getting good...
Leslie Griffith | Posted May 13, 2008 | Living