Foreign Affairs
"I sat down the morning the deal came out and I started highlighting numbers.”
Venture even further, and you'll quickly find that the image of the American tourist is reflective of how the world at large views Americans: self-entitled, oblivious to matters outside of the U.S., with little desire to learn of different cultures or languages.
Vice President Joe Biden's foreign policy work -- including an interesting exchange he says he had with Russian President Vladimir Putin -- is closely examined in a profile from the July 28 issue of the New Yorker, which you can read online now.
While every American has a right to free exercise, I believe two initiatives of the U.S. government, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom and the G.W. Bush administration's expansion of the Faith-Based Initiative, have perpetuated a very asymmetrical view of religious freedom.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The big question for the Western world is: Will Vladimir Putin stop at Crimea?
Translation affects the oval office in more ways than most people realize. Likewise, the commander-in-chief has extraordinary power to shape policy related to translation and language in general.
While it's certainly important to know and even try to understand, public opinion should be but one very small consideration when thinking about our role in, and relationship with, the world.
If you watched the Palin interview and weren't scared out of your mind, then you're mentally ill. What you are not is responsible, informed, thoughtful, mature, educated, empathetic, or remotely serious.
Here, Albright tackles several topics: how she thinks Obama is faring, her thoughts on the BP oil spill, the "revolution" of the Internet, her advice to women on breaking barriers and more.