The prospects for a comprehensive environmental tax in China have been discussed and debated for years, and we've heard that it was coming before.
The Selfish Case for Helping Others
The international community’s response to the recent and continuing flooding in Pakistan has been both inadequate and irresponsible, betraying a basic failure to understand the truly global implications of the crisis for international security.
World Policy on Air: Lawrence Wright
World Policy Journal Editor David Andelman talks with Lawrence Wright, journalist for the New Yorker and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction for his book “Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.” He has fashioned his writings into a one-man show and now an HBO Documentary which premiers on September 7.
Accept the Message; Reject the Messenger
“Seriously?” That was my initial response when I first heard about Wyclef Jean’s decision to run for President of my native Haiti. Five days later, after consuming everything there was to read and hear about his candidacy, I was still thinking, “Seriously?!!!”
Chowk: My Daughter’s Azan
From Chowk, a South Asian website focused on religion, society and politics. Ibrahim Sajid Malick is a Pakistani-American writer, technologist, and social entrepreneur.
Detainee Photos Spark Digital Backlash
A soldier poses for a photograph with a bound and blindfolded Arab detainee. Human rights groups cry foul, noting that the offending soldier hails from a leading Western democracy. The army issues a response, stripping the soldier of her military status and publicly apologizing before a room full of international journalists.
Censorship with a Pretext
Both Pakistan and Venezuela are using spurious claims about dangerous speech and violent images as a pretext for censorship, to our alarm.
Listening to The Roma
Last month, French president Nicolas Sarkozy announced that police would shut down some 300 illegal Roma camps throughout France. The Roma, commonly known as gypsies, would be exported back to their countries of origin in Central Europe.
World Policy on Air: Nina Khrushcheva
Nina Khrushcheva, distinguished professor of International Affairs at the New School and Nikita Khrushchev’s great-granddaughter, discusses with World Policy Journal editor David A.
Q&A with Jake Adelstein, Author of ‘The Last Yakuza’
Last week, former Liberal Democratic Party Senator Koichi Hamada was arrested in Japan on corruption and 'breach of trust' charges.