Commitments For Women Take Center Stage At 69th U.N. General Assembly
As the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly comes to a close, numerous commitments and actions have been made for the wellbeing of women across the world. From private sector to...
View ArticleHow ISIS Is Using Us to Get What It Wants
"O crusaders, you have realized the threat of the Islamic State, but you have not become aware of the cure, and you will not discover the cure because there is no cure. If you fight it, it becomes...
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Coal, Drugs & Tourism
It was 3:00 am and we were driving on a highway in the east of Shaanxi. The headlights of each car coming towards us illuminated the thick smog that engulfed the car, the product of countless factories...
View ArticleTeen Girls Take Swipe At World Hunger With Google Science Fair Idea, Remind...
Three teen girls from Ireland had an idea, and it was a big one. They believed they had found a way to boost cereal crop yields and could help solve the world's hunger crisis. But the adults in their...
View ArticleCongress' Smackdown of Fast Track: Sweet 16 Bday
Sixteen years ago today, 171 Democrats and 71 GOP Representatives united to vote down then-President Bill Clinton's request for Fast Track authority. As President Barack Obama now seeks to revive the...
View ArticleIs Yemen On The Brink Of Civil War?
Shiite rebels in Yemen signed a UN-brokered agreement with other political parties this weekend to form a new government. In weeks of intense clashes, the Shiite Houthi rebels had taken over several...
View ArticleThis Cleric Thinks ISIS Can Be Defeated With More Religion
WASHINGTON -- Countering extremist groups like the Islamic State will require “not less religion but more,” according to a prominent Muslim cleric who President Barack Obama referenced in his United...
View ArticleA Fulbright is Not a Political Football
Every now and then Congress shows wisdom as in the recent decision by the House and Senate to reject a request from the Obama administration to cut funding for the famous Fulbright program from $237 to...
View ArticleWhy Fracking Ireland Is Different
Whether you are pro- or anti-fracking, consider that some places on the planet may be worse places than others to use the new technology to extract natural gas. The debate about this controversial...
View ArticlePope Francis in Albania: Four Lessons
On September 21, Pope Francis made a one-day visit to Albania, a short air trip across the Adriatic Sea from Rome but a land neglected typically by global leaders. The excursion was the first by the...
View ArticleWill Brain Wave Technology Eliminate the Need for a Second Language?
Earlier this year, the first mind-to-mind communication took place. Hooked up to brain wave headsets, a researcher in India projected a thought to a colleague in France, and they understood each other....
View ArticleThree World Leaders Speak on the Future of Israel and Palestine
Three of the world's leaders, members of the group called "The Elders," spoke on the conflict between Israeli and Palestine this month in Honolulu, Hawaii. Each of the Elders has had extensive...
View ArticleOlympic Plan to Bar Discrimination in Host Cities Is Just Lipstick on a Pig
The International Olympic Committee has announced that it will "force" future Olympic host cities to sign an anti-discrimination agreement before they are able to host the games. On its face, this is a...
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These Interactive Graphs Show What The Future Of The Ebola Outbreak May Look...
More than 6,240 people in West Africa have been infected in the worst Ebola outbreak in history. The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that, without drastic measures to halt the disease's...
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Rescue Effort Is On For Injured Scientist Trapped In Peruvian Cave
LIMA, Peru (AP) — Rescuers were working Thursday to save an injured Spanish speleologist who has been trapped for a week about 400 meters (1,300 feet) underground in a cave in Peru's remote Amazon...
View ArticleWeekend Roundup: ISIS Has Unified the World; Climate Change Has Divided It
This week, the U.N. Security Council stood united in a unanimous resolution to fight what President Obama called the ISIS "network of death." Yet, despite pleas for the world to act together on global...
View ArticleBrazil's Economic Future
It was probably the great Stefan Zweig, who escaped to Brazil from Nazi persecution only to take his own life, who coined the expression, Brazil, the country of the future. Cynics, critical of Brazil's...
View ArticleYou Can't Defeat Somebody With Nobody
Flashback, 2000: At a military checkpoint on the side of a road in Lesotho, an officer pointed an automatic weapon at me, and asked for $20. I took out my business card, I handed it to him, and I told...
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Light At the End of #Climate2014?
Hope is not the first emotion that strikes ahead of a global climate summit. We have seen them come and go with a mix of scepticism and disappointment. The fact that we have been incapable of making...
View ArticleFemale Russian Cosmonaut Slaps Down Reporters Asking About Her Hair And Makeup
WASHINGTON -- Yelena Serova is making history. She is about to be the first Russian woman to go to the International Space Station and only the fourth Russian woman in history to enter space. But...
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