NOV 18, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Electric Jeepneys Challenge a Philippine Icon
The Philippine passenger jeepney has started to shed its image as a smoke-belching, eardrum-busting public utility vehicle. Originally fashioned out of WWII American military jeeps, ...
NOV 18, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Somali Pirates Scuttle Sea Laws
Armed with automatic weapons and confident in their ability to extort millions of dollars from shipping companies, pirates are once again trolling the high seas ...
NOV 18, 2008 • Podcast
The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity
For 30 years, the economic condition of most Americans has become ever more precarious. To change this requires a cogent ideology and politics of a managed, ...
NOV 17, 2008 • Podcast
Economic Gangsters: Corruption, Violence, and the Poverty of Nations
From the scapegoating of "witches" in Africa, to the pitfalls of speed-dating, to the cultures that foster corruption, Raymond Fisman explores the economics and psychology ...
NOV 14, 2008 • Podcast
David Speedie Interviews Ted Sorensen
"A president who doesn't go to war may show more courage than one who does," said JFK. In a wide-ranging conversation, Sorensen discusses JFK, Cuba, ...
NOV 14, 2008 • Podcast
Global Ethics Corner: Obama: Hope and Change, but for Whom?
How will President Obama deal with the hopes and fears of people abroad? Will his priority be the interests of the U.S. or will ...
NOV 12, 2008 • Podcast
Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East
How did the modern Middle East come about? Who were the British and Americans who shaped this region, from the 1882 British invasion of Egypt to ...
NOV 11, 2008 • Podcast
The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism
America is facing a profound triple crisis: the economy, the government, and an involvement in endless wars. This threatens all of us, Republicans and Democrats ...