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Book cover image - Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization

APR 9, 2010 Podcast

Water: The Epic Struggle for Wealth, Power, and Civilization

Everything hinges on water; it is essential to life and to civilization. Will there be enough fresh water for 9 billion of us by 2050? In this ...

CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/colodio/2908606928/">Claude Estebe</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

APR 8, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Rage against Virtual Rape

It is up to the Japanese to decide what regulations the nation wants to prescribe for sex industry software.

Hatoyama. CREDIT: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jannem/3862872687/">Janne Moren</a> (<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.0/deed.en">CC</a>).

APR 1, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Commentary: Promises, Promises: The Two Faces of Japan's New Government

Contradictions within the Democratic Party of Japan and the Hatoyama cabinet threaten to upset the expected July upper house elections and lead to further political ...

APR 1, 2010 Podcast

Global Ethics Corner: Do Good Guys Really Finish Last?

Benefits from altruism include approval, enhanced image, and neural stimulation--feeling good. Yet if you act selfishly you will have more resources, and your individual behavior ...

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/zpeckler/3509493034/">Thomas Eakins</a> detail (PD).

MAR 30, 2010 Article

Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Organ and Human Trafficking Intersect

An international framework for ethical organ transplantation could enable countries to coordinate shared information and interdiction strategies for curbing the illegal transplant tourism market.