OCT 15, 2015 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Fighting Obesity Requires a Choice: Profit or Public Health?
Unless governments take steps to promote healthy diets and discourage consumption of ultra-processed products, chances to stop and reverse the obesity epidemic remain quite slim.
OCT 14, 2015 • Article
Trans-Pacific Partnership: Prospects and Challenges
After nearly five years of difficult talks, 12 Pacific Rim states have finalized the text of the TPP, a free-trade agreement that has the potential to ...
OCT 14, 2015 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Big Soda Politics: A Call to Advocacy
It is becoming evident that Big Soda copies the playbook used by Big Tobacco to distract people from the harm caused by cigarette smoking. Although ...
OCT 13, 2015 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: How Much More Processed Food Can We Eat?
Food policies for the 21st century will be about the purpose of markets and the need to hold marketers to account for their activities.
OCT 1, 2015 • Article
Messrs. Obama and Putin: Put Syria and Syrians First
While the U.S. and Russia disagree over the fate of Assad, they share a self-interested resolve to defeat the ISIL forces that now control ...
SEP 22, 2015 • Article
Democracy as Myth and Fact
"Do democracies have the capacity to adjust? Can they expand their ideas of national interest to tackle collective challenges? Can they function in ways that ...
SEP 21, 2015 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Can Mobile Technology Help Make Sustainable Business a Reality?
How can we bridge the disconnect between the growing interest of business and finance in the sustainability agenda and more decisive action towards better social ...
SEP 15, 2015 • Article
No Peace in Syria without Justice
"Only when the culture of impunity in Syria is addressed will the prospect for a political solution become genuinely viable, and can we begin to ...