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Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force. <br>Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/kamoda/61229055/">Nathan Duckworth</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

MAY 4, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Lightweight Japan

Should we be pleased that Japan is gradually stepping up to its responsibilities in global security, or are there better ways for it to help ...

The London G20 Summit

MAY 4, 2009 Article

A Human Rights Analysis of the G20 Communique: Recent Awareness of the 'Human Cost' Is Not Quite Enough

The global economic crisis and its impact on the poor are issues of international human rights law, in particular of state obligations to take collective ...

Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/n_ipper/3491591164/">Jonathan van Smit</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

MAY 1, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: When Swine Flu Strikes

Given the small overall number of confirmed swine flu cases, the current situation warrants the caution associated with a normal flu season. But domestic and ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/24443965@N08/2723654681/">Okinawa Soba</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

APR 27, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: A Blight on the Nation: Slavery in Today's America

Certain things we know to be true. We know that the South kept slaves, and the North fought a righteous war of liberation. We know ...

Hit and run. Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/chozno01/2049157702/">Claudio</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

APR 24, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: The G-20's Global Hit-and-Run

The economic crisis has been compared to familiar catastrophes such as the sinking Titanic and a tsunami. But the car crash analogy works much better ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/vhhammer/8885641187/">V. H. Hammer</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

APR 22, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Spring 2009 Poetry Contest Winners

Policy Innovations is pleased to announce the winners of its Spring 2009 Poetry Contest. The following five submissions, each from a different city, represent the inspiration ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/blixt/171174944/">Martin McKenna</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

APR 20, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Europe Calls U.S. on Gambling Laws

Europe's WTO complaint has re-raised the issue of gambling legalization and regulation in the United States -- a topic that should arouse the interest of ...

Credit: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pagedooley/3191664147/">Kevin Dooley</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

APR 15, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Homo sociens and the New Ecological Growth Economy

What does it mean to build an economy on sound ecological principles? It means that all forms of business and other human activity will be ...

APR 14, 2009 Article

“The Current” Interviews Joel Rosenthal

Transcript of an interview with The Current, Columbia University’s undergraduate journal of contemporary politics, culture, and Jewish affairs. THE CURRENT: What does it mean ...

Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gi/388322867/">Gisela Giardino</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

APR 9, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Decouple the World from the Dollar

We have to wean the world off its dependence on U.S. overspending without sticking the United States and the world economy in a depression, ...