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Continental Rift? (Global Organizations, Regions and Countries, Economy)

As the affluent Seven plus Russia gathered in Denver, American sermons on the virtuous methods to reduce unemployment worked so much on European nerves that even the Continent's conservative pape

Daniel Singer
Media Starvation Diet (Global Organizations, Media Analysis, Society)

All during the year 1984, those of us with firsthand experience in Africa knew that drought and famine were cutting across vast swaths of the continent.

James North
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The Last Superpower (Global Organizations, Regions and Countries)

The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, held in Paris at the end of November, might best be described by reversing Tolstoy's title. This was Peace and War.

Daniel Singer
Germany Muscles In (Global Organizations, Regions and Countries, Economy)

At the turn of the year, the Western media, like
latter-day Columbuses, suddenly discovered that
Europe was speaking with an increasingly strong
German accent. Their surprise was surprising.

Daniel Singer

Blogs

Anatomy of a Failed Campus: What Happened At NYU's Tisch Asia?
StudentNation

Amid the university's rapid international expansion, there is a story of an NYU campus that failed. So what happened in Singapore? It depends who you ask. 

March 6, 2013
More Than Ever, We Need the UN
Katrina vanden Heuvel

An interview with UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson.

February 20, 2013
Letter From Tanzania III: Using the Afghan 'Peace Dividend'
Robert Dreyfuss

Providing services to fight poverty overseas is a much better bang for our buck than stationing soldiers there.

February 20, 2013
Letter From Tanzania I: The Challenge for Obama
Robert Dreyfuss

Will the president put his money where his mouth is and tackle poverty and disease?

February 18, 2013
Is the Global Economic Establishment Taking a Progressive Turn?
William Greider

A recent conference at the influential Peterson Institute began to acknowledge inhumanities that globilization boosters have long ignored.

January 15, 2013
Congressmen: E-mails Reveal Walmart CEO Was Repeatedly Informed of Bribery Scandal in 2005
Josh Eidelson

Representatives Waxman and Cummings say the documents appear to contradict Walmart’s story about the widening scandal.

January 10, 2013
Labor Groups Pan Walmart Plan to Bring Oversight Approach Used in Bangladesh to the US
Josh Eidelson

A labor official says the kind of auditing Walmart wants to bring to its US warehouses “led directly to the deaths of 112 people in Bangladesh.”

January 3, 2013
Hundreds of Argentina Walmart Employees Went on Strike in Solidarity With US Co-Workers
Josh Eidelson

Protestors in Argentina hope international pressure can end Walmart's union-busting in the US.

December 21, 2012
Walmart Workers Will Rally in Ten Countries Tomorrow
Josh Eidelson

Workers across five continents will protest alleged retaliation against US Walmart employees.

December 13, 2012
The GOP's Absurd Fear of All Things UN
Katrina vanden Heuvel

Congress has struck down an international treaty to protect the rights of people with disabilities, thanks to Rick Santorum and his band of UN-bashers.

December 11, 2012