The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership is bad news for workers and worse news for women.
How the TPP Sells Out America’s Women
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Asia & Pacific
Okinawa: The Small Island Trying to Block the U.S. Military’s “Pivot to Asia”
Last month, the citizens of Okinawa awarded a landslide victory to a governor who wants U.S. troops off the pristine island.
At the Lima Climate Talks, It Was Groundhog Day All Over Again
The latest climate talks were an exercise in futility and delay. But that doesn’t mean activists should give up.
A Lesson from Hong Kong in Pragmatism vs. Liberalism
The lack of majority support for Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement is an example of developing nations’ inclination towards pragmatism, not liberalism and civil rights.
The Games of Our Lives
Can video games crowdsource more democratic solutions to the world’s problems?
China Has a Vested Interest in the Defeat of the Islamic State
China appears to be aiding Iraq its fight against the Islamic State.
Watch Out What You Wish For: China Now No. 1 Economy
Being the world’s top economic power comes with many responsibilities, which China may be trying to sidestep.
The Threshold for Nuclear War Between Pakistan and India Keeps Dropping
Pakistan is playing fast and loose with the precautions to nuclear war.
How Liberal Democracy Promotes Inequality
Western-style democracies — not the dictatorships they replaced — have allowed deeply undemocratic economic systems to flourish. So what’s to be done?
The World Bank Is Refereeing a Race to the Bottom
Instead of ranking countries by their “business friendliness,” the World Bank should rank corporations according to their social responsibility.