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FEB 9, 2011 • Article
First Prize High School Category, "Making a Difference" Essay Contest, 2010
Jacqueline Dufalla's inventive and practical proposals for raising student awareness at her school include field trips, an annual "Day without Power," an environmental elective class, ...
FEB 3, 2011 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Digital Rations
Internet access is politicized in Castro's Cuba and critical expression suppressed, but as technological savvy increases on the island many are able to connect through ...
FEB 3, 2011 • Article
Egypt: Liberalism and Intervention
The next time we claim that some peoples, traditions, religions, or civilizations cannot achieve democracy, rights, or freedom unless we help them, we might want ...
FEB 1, 2011 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: All Aboard for High-Speed Rail
The Obama administration has given passenger rail the strongest federal push since the days of Abraham Lincoln in hopes of spurring job growth and keeping ...
FEB 1, 2011 • Article
Bread, Rice and Freedom: The Peasantry and Agriculture in the USSR and China (May/June, 1983)
This article was first published in the May/June 1983 issue of "Freedom at Issue," published by Freedom House. It includes a comparative analysis of the ...
FEB 1, 2011 • Article
China: The Romance of Realpolitik (September/October 1989)
This article (written soon after the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre) confronts the failure of the "China experts" in academe to penetrate the reality of ...
FEB 1, 2011 • Article
The Promise and Peril of an Independent Republic of South Sudan
Many ask, "Will the newly independent South Sudan become a failed state?" But the real question is, "Can North Sudan remain a viable state without ...
JAN 28, 2011 • Article
WikiLeaks: An Overview, Part I
The U.S. government is in an awkward position. How does it legally distinguish between WikiLeaks and the traditional media? Is Julian Assange, in fact, ...
JAN 20, 2011 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Latin America's China Challenge
China's growth has been a great boon to Latin America in the short-term. It is up to Latin American nations to translate these short-term gains ...
JAN 11, 2011 • Article
The Causes of the Financial Crisis
The main cause behind the recent financial crisis was the accumulation of hidden risks in the system. This was compounded by the agency problem, which ...