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CREDIT:<a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/rappensuncle/632433873">Mel Stoutsenberger</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/">CC</a>).

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 ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Photo <br>by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/31910792@N05/3492139088/">James Gordon</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</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 ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/3178491939/">Thomas Hawk</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

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 ...

Bookshelf of the Universe, in 30 Volumes.

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.

MAY 19, 2009 Article

Obama Could Send Message to Iran With...a Message to Iran

In one letter, Obama could spell out common interests, mutual concerns, and prospects for peace.

African National Congress flag and logo.

MAY 6, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Liberation Debt in the New South Africa

Loyalty to the ANC remains strong, despite corruption charges that surrounded presidential candidate Jacob Zuma until recently and cynicism over what the party has been ...

Spencer Zuzolo instructs a student.

MAY 5, 2009 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Digital Workforce Initiative Transforms Gulf Coast Job Prospects

One means to revitalize the post-Katrina Louisiana economy is to educate a digital workforce steeped in twenty-first century skills: creative collaboration, communication, and interactive media ...

The Battle of Algiers movie poster.

MAY 5, 2009 Article

Ethics on Film: Discussion of "The Battle of Algiers"

Shot in documentary style, this classic about the Algerian struggle for independence from France in the 1950s has become a learning tool both for rebel ...

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 ...