Recent Articles
JUN 15, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Setting the Bar at 350
Where do we draw the political and ecological lines on climate change? How much carbon will the atmosphere take? Policy Innovations Managing Editor Evan O'Neil ...
JUN 9, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: The Consensus before the Consensus
Building mini-consensuses before the Consensus is the best way anything will get done at the December climate negotiations in Copenhagen. Here is a quick glance ...
JUN 9, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Information Gaps Hinder CSR Achievement
IBM recently completed its second annual survey of senior executives from around the world on the importance of green and sustainability issues to their corporate ...
JUN 8, 2009 • Article
Get out of the GWOT
Despite Obama's promises of change, U.S. defense policy is geared almost exclusively to a dangerous counter-insurgency posture designed to prevent a new 9/11. It's time ...
JUN 3, 2009 • Article
On the 20th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Demonstrations: Human Rights Needs for a New China
What has changed in China since 1989, and what are Chinese looking for from their government today? Health and safety issues are paramount for many, especially ...
MAY 29, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Deterrence Beats Diplomacy on North Korea
There are enormous limits as to what Japan, South Korea, and the United States could do about North Korea even if China agreed to follow ...
MAY 28, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Building a Continental Renewable Super Grid
As the planet warms and the economy cools, renewable resources are emerging as a realistic means to solve both problems in a timely fashion. A ...
MAY 27, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: What's Wrong with Diplomacy in Damascus
The Obama administration has reversed former President George W. Bush's isolationist policies toward Syria, but has little to show for it. The government will need ...
MAY 22, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Mass Incarceration as Social Control
Historians of mass incarceration in the U.S. have long argued for an assessment of the U.S. criminal justice system in terms of human ...
MAY 19, 2009 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Our Biology Makes Us All Truly Equal
"Race" is a persistent example of our imagination.