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CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/trainorphans/26041216/">Gitchel</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

NOV 29, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Unions Improve Jobs at the Bottom

One in three American jobs is low-wage work that often doesn't pay enough to make ends meet. Unionization substantially improves pay and benefits in these ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.waterforpeople.org" target="_blank">Water for People</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en" target="_blank">CC</a>).

NOV 28, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Tapping Partnerships for Drinkable Water

About 1.2 billion people live without sustainable access to safe drinking water and basic sanitation, a number that will certainly grow without continued pressure for innovative ...

Hu Jintao visits Hanoi, Vietnam

NOV 27, 2007 Article

Hu's on First?

China has greatly stepped up its diplomatic, trade, and aid efforts in Southeast Asia, write Josh Kurlantzick and Devin Stewart. But it still has a ...

Dummy soldiers in a Golan Heights redoubt. CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/mockstar/237987395/" target="_blank">David Poe</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/deed.en" target="_blank">CC</a>).

NOV 20, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Salvaging Peace with Syria

The geography, demographics, and environment of the Golan Heights make it suitable for environmental peace-building. Putting it on the agenda at the upcoming Middle East ...

The new energy efficient New York Times building. <br>Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/khaz/1464900887/" target="_blank">Nickolay</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en" target="_blank">CC</a>).

NOV 19, 2007 Article

Cap and Trade vs. Carbon Tax

What's the difference between taxing carbon emissions and a market-based system of cap and trade, asks Matthew Hennessey of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research? ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/khaz/1464900887/">Scott Beale/a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

NOV 19, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Cap and Trade vs. Carbon Tax

What's the difference between taxing carbon emissions and a market-based system of cap and trade? Which approach will more effectively reduce emissions? Which is fairer?

M16A4 Service Rifle. CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/aheram/323412696/" target="_blank">Jayel Aheram</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en" target="_blank">CC</a>).

NOV 16, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Selling Security

When the traditional tasks of national militaries are delegated to private military firms, civil authorities enter into two contracts with them: commercial and moral. If ...

NOV 15, 2007 Journal

The Globalizers: The IMF, the World Bank, and Their Borrowers by Ngaire Woods

Woods is an insightful and thoughtful authority on the Bretton Woods institutions. In this book she examines their activities and focuses on their engagements with ...

NOV 15, 2007 Journal

All Politics Is Global: Explaining International Regulatory Regimes by Daniel Drezner

At a time when many international relations scholars are qualifying their premature predictions of the withering of the state, Daniel Drezner's new book makes a ...

NOV 15, 2007 Journal

Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad: In Search of Knowledge, edited by Thomas Carothers

This book is an attempt to collect some of the little known about Rule-of-law (ROL) reform, and it does this creditably. Although the book's contributors ...