Recent Articles
JUN 25, 2014 • Article
The Participation Gap
"Inequality doesn't result only from differences in income or wealth (the focus of French economist Thomas Piketty). It also has a political dimension, fueled by ...
JUN 25, 2014 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Does India Really Need a Women-centric Bank?
With plenty of banks and microfinance services already available, does India's new bank have the right strategy to empower poor and rural women?
JUN 24, 2014 • Journal Online Exclusive
What Metrics for Assessing the Ethics of Intervention?
Despite the predictions of the optimists in both the Bush and Obama administrations, U.S. interventions to remove undeniably brutal dictators from power have not ...
JUN 20, 2014 • Article
Can Japan Change? Yes, It Can!
It may not be a revolution, but change is happening in Japan in important ways. A more open attitude is emerging toward entrepreneurship, global education, ...
JUN 18, 2014 • Article
Cataclysm: David Stevenson on World War I as Political Tragedy
David Stevenson discusses the military and political decisions on both sides that led to World War I; the Eastern, Balkan, and Italian Fronts, which are ...
JUN 18, 2014 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Of Moonshots and Slingshots
Only if policy people and technologists work together better will we change the world in ways that are congruent with our most critical human needs ...
JUN 16, 2014 • Article
Do Global Networks Require "Cruise Directors"?
On April 30, 2014, Carnegie Council and the Melton Foundation convened a group of representatives of leading global networks to investigate and share best practices. Read about ...
JUN 16, 2014 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Now They're Cooking: SolSource Harnesses the Himalayan Sun
With a solar cooker designed through community consultation, two young innovators are delivering clean energy to remote mountain villages, as well as your backyard BBQ.
JUN 12, 2014 • Journal
Why Human Rights Are Called Human Rights
No one can engage in commerce when deprived of liberty or autonomy. No one can create or imagine or love when consumed by fear. We ...
JUN 12, 2014 • Journal
Drones and the Question of "The Human"
In our headlong embrace of drone technology, we are forgetting to ask two basic questions: What is a drone? And what does it mean that ...