by Margaret Marshall
External Relations Associate
The human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people are under assa...
Independent watchdog organization dedicated to the expansion of freedom around the world
After months of delay, worth his administration finally spinning
up and beginning to execute a plan against Isis -- the world's richest
terrorist ou...
Sometimes, amid the heated political debate about what should
done by the U.S. government in world affairs, a proposal cuts through
the TV babble of the supposed experts with a clear, useful suggestion.
Professor of History emeritus, SUNY Albany
The winds of prosperity do not blow steadily and will turn
against both countries if the two biggest emitters of greenhouse gases
neglect their obligation to collectively lead the global drive to
mitigate climate disruption.
President of Resources for the Future, a
leading think tank for independent economic & policy analysis of
energy & environmental issues.
To explain why our actions are so dangerous, here is what we
might say to an alien if we ever made contact, and here is how it may be
interpreted.
The idea that "they speak English, so I don't need to learn
Mandarin" is a losing position. Learn Mandarin, as importantly learn the
culture. If you do this, your business wins big.
Founder and CEO, BRIC Language Systems
If China will publicly stress the importance of good governance
as an essential component of making the development process work, the
AIIB has a chance of being successful, and may work well in generating
significantly more financial resources for the region.
CEO, Country Risk Solutions
Innovation follows production, not the other way around. Most
jobs are in production, not innovation. If politicians truly care about
American jobs and innovation, they should craft policies to ensure
production stays in America.
Communications Director, American Jobs Alliance
No lazy beach days here! From crawling under boulders to swimming
through caves and day-long hikes to horseback rides, the lengths
travelers have to g...
Deng believed that the most urgent task was to improve people's
livelihood. In his view, all other reforms, including political ones,
had to serve this primary goal. He believed that copying the Western
model and placing political reform on the top of the agenda, like the
Soviets were doing at the time, was utterly foolish. In fact, that was
exactly Deng's comment on Gorbachev after their meeting: "This man may
look smart but in fact is stupid."
Director of the Centre for China Development Model Research, Fudan University in Shanghai
Writing narratives about cities is different from penning
travelogues. In a travelogue, the journey is often long, and the
landscape is often vast. Pe...
Bestselling author, historian, biographer, foreign correspondent
(New Delhi) – The Indian government should end “manual
scavenging” – the cleaning of human waste by communities considered
low...
Defending human rights world wide
Phakyab Rinpoche, a high-ranking Tibetan lama living in Jackson
Heights, Queens, tucks his feet under him on the carpet of his living
room-turned-temple and recounts how it all began. He was 13 and living
in post-Cultural Revolution Tibet in the late 1970s, when the Future
Buddha, Jampa, also known as Maitreya, came to him in a dream.
How unusual has the weather been? No one event is "caused" by
climate change, but global warming, which is predicted to increase
unusual, extreme weather, is having a daily effect on weather,
worldwide.
I attended the exhibition and found the art breathtaking and the
history fascinating. However, recent developments in Chinese-Czech
relations are even more interesting than ancient artifacts.
Journalist and photographer in the Czech Republic
Since independence, Pakistanis have been told that their country
is a "citadel of Islam," that its destiny is to be an Islamic state and
its army is "the sword of Islam." Advocates of modern, secular values,
even pluralism, are denigrated as "enemies of the ideology of Pakistan."
Pakistan's establishment, led by its military, also seeks parity with
India, not only in the legal sense of sovereign equality between nations
but in military and political terms. This ideological milieu has helped
religious-political groups exercise greater influence on national
discourse than is justified and led to the outgrowth of jihadi groups,
one more extreme than the other.
Former Pakistani ambassador to the US; director for South and Central Asia at the Hudson Institute.
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