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JUL 9, 2010 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: Mexico: Violence and Democracy

Must governments meet violence with an authoritarian response? In the recent Mexican election, citizens could demand a crackdown on druglords at the price of personal ...

JUL 9, 2010 Podcast

Ethics in Business: Interview with Felipe Botero, VP, MetLife

Felipe Botero is a VP at MetLife Insurance. Day-to-day, he develops insurance for retiring baby-boomers. But he is also taking on the enormous responsibility of ...

Painting of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il at Lake Baekdusan, sacred to all Koreans. Photo by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/yeowatzup/2921982738/" target=_blank">Yeowatzup</a> (CC)

JUL 8, 2010 Article

The Two Koreas: Despite Nukes and Succession Issues, It's Status Quo

With a flurry of news about escalating tensions between North and South Korea, it might seem that the game has completely changed. But for Koreans ...

Illustration: Adam Niklewicz

JUL 7, 2010 Article

The Case for a Union: From the Fertile Crescent to the Silk Road

Authors Abtahi and Shoamanesh have a bold proposition: a multi-state, political-economic-security union that stretches from the Fertile Crescent to the Silk Road, connecting the Indian ...

Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban

JUL 2, 2010 Podcast

Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban

Journalist Jere Van Dyk tells of his decades-long involvement with Afghanistan, and gives a harrowing account of his 2008 kidnapping and imprisonment by the Taliban in ...