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Fence along the U.S.-Mexico border. <br>Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/16216900@N00/174045778/" target=_blank>Edmond Meinfelder</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en-us" target=_blank>CC</a>).

JUN 7, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Mending America's Broken Fence

There is a window of political opportunity in U.S. immigration policy: The House has passed a version of immigration reform and the Senate is ...

Nuclear reactor in Delaware. Photo by <br><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/40769152@N00/446674057/">Jon Schladen</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en-us">CC</a>).

JUN 5, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Splitting the Atomic Energy Debate

Interest in low-emission nuclear energy has mushroomed alongside rising energy prices and fear of climate change. But the picture of a green future is clouded ...

Beijing, China

JUN 4, 2007 Article

Next Year in Beijing?

When will China publicly acknowledge what really happened on June 4, 1989? Just as in Taiwan, change in China must surely come from within. But the rest ...

Malaria mosquito. Photo courtesy of CDC (<a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Anopheles_stephensi.jpeg" target=_blank>PD</a>).

MAY 31, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: WHO Pushes Pharmaceutical Innovation

The innovation gap is especially troubling in the pharmaceutical industry, where only a small portion of funding goes toward the diseases that disproportionately affect developing ...

MAY 23, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Successful Globalization Needed in Arab World

Over the next decade or so, the Arab world may experience population growth of 150 million people—the equivalent of adding two Egypts. Such rapid labor ...

MAY 18, 2007 Article

U.S. Should Not Waver on U.K. Visa Policy

In the interests of security, should the U.S. end the visa waiver for British Muslims? The cost is far too high, says Frank Spring, ...

Protest in Cairo. CREDIT: <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/zarwan/153534199/">E. Zarwan</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/" target=_blank>CC</a>).

MAY 9, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Realist Democracy Promotion

Democracy's positive contributions to quality of life have caused some to elevate it to the status of a universal value. But universal value does not ...

Effective irrigation systems help boost crop quality and yield, lifting farmers out of poverty in rural Mexico.

MAY 7, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Innovations: Hybrid Value Chains

Ashoka is forging ahead with sustainable enterprise through its Hybrid Value Chain program in rural Mexico. Farmers, citizen sector organizations, and corporations work together to ...

The Flag of Iran

MAY 3, 2007 Article

Revisiting Iran?

Is Iran's goal to achieve hegemony in the Persian Gulf and throughout the Middle East? Is that possibility sufficient cause for the U.S. to ...

Anti-corruption billboard in Nigeria. Photo by <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/blyth/141520433/" target=_blank>Mike Blyth</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/" target=_blank>CC</a>).

APR 30, 2007 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Fragile Democracy in Resource-rich Nigeria

Presidential elections were held in Nigeria in April amid electoral chaos and mild violence. For the first time since the nation's independence in 1960, power was ...