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"Stethoscope" by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/vitualis/137213564/" target=_blank">vitualis</a>, (CC)

DEC 4, 2009 Article

Rationing Healthcare? We're Already Doing It

The question today is not whether to start rationing healthcare. We are already rationing, based in large part on the ability to pay. The question ...

Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/adamcnelson/2942561975/">Adam Nelson</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

NOV 30, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Micro-donations Can Make a Massive Difference in Global Health

Policy Innovations talks with Bernard Salome, managing director of the Millennium Foundation, about raising funds for global health through small donations made when people purchase ...

"Semester at Sea in Istanbul" by Zornitsa Stoyanova-Yerburgh

NOV 25, 2009 Article

Prize-Winning Student Essay: Globalization and Opportunity

Katie Carns, winner of the Carnegie Council/Semester at Sea Student Competition, reflects on what she learned about other countries--and the U.S.--on her ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jpeepz/220631940/">Jay Peeples</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

NOV 25, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Contested Governance in a Global-Corporate World

Can nation-states, global corporations, and civil society alliances stabilize in a new form of effective global governance?

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/su-jung/2198606281/">Moto Pony</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

NOV 17, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Will China Emerge Greener from the Global Economic Downturn?

The economic downturn presents China with a historic opportunity to reorient its economy to a more stable and sustainable path, but emerging evidence from the ...

Yukio Hatoyama. Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/worldeconomicforum/3886448885/">WEF</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

NOV 13, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: A Close Relationship Requires Compromise

The most important accomplishment of President Obama's trip to Japan would be to reassure Prime Minister Hatoyama that the tensions around Marine Corps Air Station ...

<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thefalloftheberlinwall1989.JPG" target=_blank>The Fall of the Berlin Wall, 1989</a>.<br> Unknown photographer, public domain.

NOV 5, 2009 Article

The Opening of the Berlin Wall: A 20-Year Retrospective

The sudden downfall of the Communist regimes in 1989 and the opening of the Berlin Wall are sometimes depicted as the inevitable result of a lengthy ...

Matryoshka. CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/dm-set/3338663928/">Sarah</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

NOV 5, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The Persistence of Eurasia

Nearly two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the United States must confront the reality that Eurasia remains a very Russia-centric region.

School in Ethiopia. Courtesy A Glimmer of Hope Foundation.

NOV 4, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Sparking a Glimmer of Hope

Social entrepreneur Philip Berber experiments with a new model for development aid by covering overhead costs through his A Glimmer of Hope Foundation so that ...

Volcan Arenal, by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/whappen/673029449/">Arturo Sotillo</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

NOV 3, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: America Shouldn't Blow an Opportunity for Green Diplomacy

By not being a global leader on climate change over the past decade America has blown a major opportunity to engage in Green Diplomacy -- ...