It is not every day that one gets to join two global powerhouses to promote a planetary breakthrough, but that is the reality with Connect to Learn, a new...
In the weeks before and after the Copenhagen climate change conference last December, the science of climate change came under harsh attack by critics who...
The horrors of Haiti’s earthquake continue to unfold. The quake itself killed perhaps 100,000 people. The inability to organize rapid relief is killing...
Two years of climate change negotiations have now ended in a farce in Copenhagen. Rather than grappling with complex issues, President Barack Obama decided...
The United Nations Climate Change Treaty, signed in 1992, committed the world to “avoiding dangerous anthropogenic interference in the climate...
It is now almost a year since the world economy teetered on the edge of calamity. In the span of three days, September 15-17, 2008, Lehman Brothers filed...
The world has yet to achieve the macroeconomic policy coordination that will be needed to restore economic growth following the Great Crash of 2008. In much...
The global recession now under way is the result not only of a financial panic, but also of more basic uncertainty about the future direction of the world...
The G-8 Summit in Japan earlier this month was a painful demonstration of the pitiful state of global cooperation. The world is in deepening crisis. Food...
Reconciling global economic growth, especially in developing countries, with the intensifying constraints on global supplies of energy, food, land and water...
Many poor, food-importing countries around the world have become desperate in recent months, as global prices of rice, wheat, and maize have doubled. Hundreds...
The US Federal Reserve's desperate attempts to keep America's economy from sinking are remarkable for at least two reasons. First, until just a few months...
In early February, the United Sates National Academy of Engineering released a report on "Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century." The goal is...
Kenya is aflame after a presidential election on December 27 widely believed to have been rigged to secure the re-election of Mwai Kibaki. Kibaki's opponents...
Many of today's war zones - including Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Somalia, and Sudan - share basic problems that lie at the root of their...
Anyone interested in peacemaking, poverty reduction, and Africa's future should read the new United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) report titled Sudan:...
Recently, The China Daily ran a front-page story recounting how Paul Wolfowitz used threats and vulgarities to pressure senior World Bank staff. The newspaper...
Afghanistan's future hangs in the balance as its weak national government struggles to maintain support and legitimacy in the face of a widening insurgency,...
It always comes back to oil. The continuing misguided interventions in the Middle East by the United States and the United Kingdom have their roots deep in...
The paradox of the current violence in Israel, Gaza, and Lebanon is that the solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not hard to see. A large majority...
Corruption undermines the quality of life for people around the world, not only in poor countries. The United States currently is witnessing several...
Hurricane Wilma and the Pakistan earthquake continue a streak of shocking natural disasters during the past year: the Indian Ocean tsunami, killer droughts in...
The United States is once again learning the limits of military power. In Iraq, America has unrivaled control of the air, but can't hold the ground. Its mere...
Evidence is mounting that America's war in Iraq has killed tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians, and perhaps well over 100,000. Yet this carnage is...