Daily Policy Digest
International Issues
| A EUROPEAN GENOCIDE An estimated 14.5 million people starved to death in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus, when farmland was collectivized and harvests requisitioned... |
| PAKISTAN'S BAILOUT The International Monetary Fund's aid plan for Pakistan isn't a substitute for reform, say observers... |
| ICELAND ABANDONED What were the real causes of the international financial crisis that hit Iceland so hard?... |
| POWER TO THE PEOPLE A system of relief vouchers could make nonprofits and their donors more accountable to their clients, says Eric Werker, assistant professor at the Harvard University Business School... |
| LAWFARE AGAINST ISRAEL Anti-Israel "lawfare" strategies are subversive and interfere with the diplomatic relations of Western countries with Israel, say observers... |
| ARGENTINA IMPOVERISHES ITSELF AGAIN What happens when government meddles with private wealth?... |
| BOURGEOIS BOOM Worldwide, the middle class is growing by 70 million people annually... |
| SOMALIA: THE WORLD’S MOST UTTERLY FAILED STATE Piracy is just one symptom of the power vacuum inside Somalia, say observers... |
| STARING DOWN THE BARREL: THE RISE OF GUNS IN CHINA In a nation that bans guns and celebrates them, armed criminals and hunters pose new problems for Chinese authorities... |
| MCCAIN ON THE IRAQ WAR Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) was one of the strongest congressional backers of the Bush administration's decision to send nearly 30,000 more troops to Iraq in early 2007... |
