Tracy O (ASA) I recently wrote about how globalization could make the world a much safer place. The logic is essentially this: countries that have significant business interactions are much less likely to go to war. A China that relies on exports to the West probably won’t start a war with anyone, and a West […]

Irotzabal If there are four big pieces of international news this week, it would be hard to make them anything but these. And if there were for big pieces of good international news this week, it would be hard to make them anything but these: The Kofi Annan-led mediation team seems to be getting close […]

Our roving reporter, Steve Finch, has an interesting story today that he asked us to file under “that’s something that would really benefit humanity.” SANTA MONICA, CA — The YZ Prize Foundation—of no relation to the X Prize Foundation—announced a new reward today which they’ve called simply the Peace YZ Prize. Like all such prizes, […]

DEMOSH The world recently celebrated a rather unceremonious “monthiversary.” Kenya—which up until a month ago was often described as the brightest spot in East Africa, if not the whole continent—is still in chaos. See some of the haunting reports and photographs of The Vigilante Journalist if you doubt that fact. A month ago Kenya’s president, […]

mrpattersonsir Everywhere you look, especially as a teenager, the world is full of others. Of people “not like me.” And though teenagers feel this most intensely, few do not feel it regularly. Just look at the latent antipathy that exists in this country toward Iranians. Or Arabs. Or Mexicans. Or even the French. Surely these […]