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- A Dangerous Dance in Modern Iran
05/30/2014
Any stirring of excitement about change in Iran needs to be tempered by the reality that change will never come from the current leadership.
05/30/14 - Forced Evictions Defeat the Spirit of Big Sporting Events
03/19/2014
The evicted residents of Rio demand to be included in the benefits and the legacies of big tournaments like the World Cup and Olympics.
03/19/14 - Social Covenants Must Precede Social Contracts
04/09/2013
Fragile states that do not first forge a social covenant will later find it difficult to codify justice in a social contract.
04/09/13 - Innovation to the Rescue: New Ideas and Tech for Helping Refugees
03/21/2013
The UN refugee agency is adopting an innovation-centered approach in pursuit of better services, products, and outcomes for displaced populations.
03/21/13 - Buds of Hope
12/11/2012
With technical assistance from a local NGO, poor farmers in Maharashtra have been able to supplement their seasonal income by cultivating organic jasmine buds.
12/11/12 - Fostering Social Entrepreneurship in the New Tunisia
11/21/2012
With educated youth and a nation awakening to its social and political needs, the time is ripe for social entrepreneurs to flourish in post-revolutionary Tunisia.
11/21/12 - Forecasting the Future of Countries
11/05/2012
Measuring how countries develop is all the rage, but are these indicators examining the most appropriate data? Seth Kaplan says it's time we start looking more at social and political performance.
11/05/12 - Globalizing Censorship
06/28/2012
Consent of the Network by Rebecca MacKinnon is a must-read on how businesses and governments wield influence over the Internet.
06/28/12 - Better Safe than Sorry
02/28/2011
Corporate executives should never have to apologize for violations when they can instead build global opportunities by advancing human rights.
02/28/11 - Innovating Sovereign Wealth Funds
02/17/2011
As we struggle to tackle financial and ecological sustainability, sovereign wealth funds such as in Alaska deserve far greater attention for positive adoption.
02/17/11 - Is Famine the New Norm?
02/15/2011
If we truly consider world hunger an abomination, and not merely an investment opportunity, big changes need to be made in food policy.
02/15/11 - Welcome to the Urban Revolution
10/28/2010
We must become masters of a sustainable, just, and ecological urbanism writes Jeb Brugmann in his analysis of how the advantages of urban settlement are changing our societies and the face of the Earth.
10/28/10 - Pragmatic Overdose
06/22/2010
The Obama administration is trying to redefine and energize U.S. global development policy, but so far their vision lacks creativity and clear ethics.
06/22/10 - U.S. Pressures Oil Companies to Leave Iran
03/26/2010
With nuclear diplomacy at a standstill, the U.S. government has been expanding its sanctions against Iran to include refined petroleum products and insurers.
03/26/10 - The Evolution of Revolution
02/20/2010
Revolution is hard work, and lethal. Social media has a communicative role to play in the sophisticated design of systems that will undermine human suffering and solve the "day after" problems of deposing a dictatorship.
02/20/10 - Ending War in Our Lifetimes?
12/17/2009
President Obama will need to discard old foreign policy doctrines and steer with a more global moral compass to meet the vision of eradicating war in our lifetime.
12/17/09 - Minding Our Minerals
10/09/2009
Certain resources are destined for depletion if they become locked into built infrastructure or recovery costs prove too high. But this could all change if more attention is paid globally to material cycling and consumer responsibility. We need a global strategy for efficient minerals extraction, use, and reclamation.
10/09/09 - Informal Economy Pulls Migrants to Europe
10/07/2009
Politicians are unwilling to admit that the informal economy provides low-paying work for paperless migrants in Southern Europe, and that border control is impotent without addressing inequality.
10/07/09 - The Happy Planet Index
08/11/2009
The fact that economic growth can be conceived of in opposition to the health of the planet suggests that neither can claim to be regarded as the true overall measure of success in human society. A much more convincing case is made by the concept of well-being.
08/11/09 - Understanding Election Twitter
07/16/2009
How does what happens online translate into pressure on leadership, and influence policy outcomes? This summer's major elections in India, Iran, and Indonesia show that we need to understand the relationship between search trending, social network perspectives, and political behavior.
07/16/09