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Mr. Yuck stickers discourage children from <br>drinking household cleaners. Courtesy of <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/handforged/161839504/"><br>Nicholas Carey</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JAN 30, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Globalization Poison

The blame game for toxic toys and bad loans makes big headlines. But international scrutiny can also promote accountability.

The vicious spiral of partisanship. Photo <br>by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/victoriabush/42274451/">Victoria Bush</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JAN 23, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Partisanship and U.S. Trade Policy

U.S. trade policy has become increasingly partisan, but progress on trade issues during an election year is unlikely.

Screen shot from EverQuest II. Image by <br>TexMurphy (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Eq2_level_60_mount.jpg">Fair Use</a>).

JAN 23, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Role Addiction

The global growth of Internet use and online role-playing games has spawned a public health crackdown on addictive and antisocial behaviors.

U.S. Army Soldiers drive a Bradley Fighting Vehicle in East Baghdad, Iraq (2007).<br>CREDIT: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/soldiersmediacenter/421323075/">The U.S. Army</a> (<a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC</a>)

JAN 22, 2008 Article

The Real "Surge" of 2007: Non-Combatant Death in Iraq and Afghanistan

While overall violence declined in Iraq in the last few months, civilian deaths at U.S. hands in both Iraq and Afghanistan were up approximately 70 ...

Mobuto Sese Seko's corrupt rule of Zaire <br>left billions in unpaid loans.

JAN 22, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: The Debt of Dictators

The Debt of Dictators by filmmaker Erling Borgen is a good introduction to the central questions of Third World debt: Whose debt is it, and ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/tinou/334842339/">Tinou Bao</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JAN 17, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Green Stimulus

Recession could open the door for stimulus that is both progressive and climate-friendly, especially if targeted at housing and transportation.

CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/criminalintent/73757271/">Lars Plougmann</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JAN 16, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Forming a Donor Monitor NGO

Money stuffed in envelopes. Gifts of cars, computers, and overseas junkets. It sounds like the criticism typically leveled at corrupt MNCs, but it also occurs ...

A village well in Kenya is locked for <br>conservation purposes. Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/davida3/484971270/">Davida <br>De La Harpe</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JAN 15, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: In the Trenches for Clean Water

Water is poised to be the most baffling challenge of the 21st century. A Kenyan women's group is digging trenches to show how leadership and ...

Pro-Bhutto graffiti in San Francisco. <br>Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/dav/2150774458/">Dav Yaginuma</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

JAN 9, 2008 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Pakistan's Simmering Unrest

Since taking power in a 1999 military coup, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has struggled with the same question as his predecessors: How to keep a tangled ...

Antarctica 2001, Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/pathfinderlinden/160632839/" target=_blank>Pathfinder Linden</a> at Flickr

JAN 8, 2008 Article

Can Antarctica Be Preserved?

Antarctica is unique in that it has no governing body, no electorate (or citizens), and no permanent human inhabitants. One of the greatest ethical dilemmas ...