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AUG 4, 2009 • Article
The Balance between Risk and Return Is Everybody's Business
The 2008 taxpayer bailout and a long string of corporate restructurings and downsizings have shifted risk from corporations to individuals, writes Ann Rutledge. Most Americans were ...
JUL 7, 2009 • Article
A Humanitarian Assessment of the War in Iraq
The debates about withdrawing from Iraq have excluded what would seem to be a self-evident point of contention: how best to repair the damage that ...
JUN 3, 2009 • Article
On the 20th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Demonstrations: Human Rights Needs for a New China
What has changed in China since 1989, and what are Chinese looking for from their government today? Health and safety issues are paramount for many, especially ...
MAY 4, 2009 • Article
A Human Rights Analysis of the G20 Communique: Recent Awareness of the 'Human Cost' Is Not Quite Enough
The global economic crisis and its impact on the poor are issues of international human rights law, in particular of state obligations to take collective ...
APR 8, 2009 • Article
Fallout, Denials, and Trials: Recognizing the Health Legacy of Nuclear Test Veterans
David Willcox writes on a U.K. court case brought by participants in the U.K.'s nuclear testing program which raises a moral dilemma ...
MAR 4, 2009 • Article
Obama's Moral Obligation to Africa
Obama is in a unique position to make a difference in Africa, but will he fulfill his campaign promises? Matthew Hennessey has some suggestions for ...
FEB 4, 2009 • Article
Doing the Right Thing: How Organizations Can Help us Make Ethical Decisions
What sorts of features must we instill in a collective to make it easier for people to make the decision to tell the truth? What ...
FEB 2, 2009 • Article
Letter from the United States to Iran
In a possible letter from the United States to Iran, David Speedie writes of the two nations' shared interests, the causes that divide them, and ...
JAN 12, 2009 • Article
An Agenda for Obama: End America's Counterproductive Pursuit of Space Dominance
It's time to go back to President Eisenhower's original goal of space for peaceful purposes and ditch America's position that it has the right to ...
DEC 18, 2008 • Article
Obama Could Miss the Bus on Raising Gas Tax
Fighting the climate crisis will be as much about new incentives as about new technologies, and there are few incentives as reliable as price. Will ...