How are native English speakers handicapping themselves by not learning other languages?
Obama Steps Out Alone on Climate Change
Will America now respond to the 21st century threat of climate change and lead? Or will ambivalence prevail?
Elections Do Not Make Democracy
Should the U.S. continue to support autocratic regimes, wherever they provide for a stable geopolitical situation?
Transatlantic Trade: Data Privacy First
How might the NSA scandal help the EU land a win on data privacy in trade talks with the United States?
Curbing Gang Violence in Central America
What should the United States be doing to rein in Central American gang violence?
Uruguay: South America’s New Zealand?
Will tiny Uruguay get squeezed between its two much larger neighbors, Brazil and Argentina, or prove itself resilient?
America: The Next Woolworth’s?
Will the United States continue to underrate its competition and stay on the road Woolworth’s went down?
Reasons to Have Hope in Haiti, One By One
Do all the negative statistics about Haiti obscure the humanity and hope of the people there?
Rohani’s Presidential Pulpit
Can the incoming Iranian president outmaneuver his country’s hardliners on foreign affairs? Will that enhance global governance?

























