In late November and early December of last year, some 195 national delegations met in Durban, South Africa, for the 17th Conference of the…
The year has started well for financial markets. Equities are generally up. European sovereigns have borrowed with an ease that has…
“You get to ask the questions you like. I get to give the answers I like,” Mitt Romney told a reporter dissatisfied with an evasive answer…
What to do about an increasingly truculent and threatening Iran is now the most important foreign policy challenge of 2012. Republican…
A paradox of American higher education is this: The expectations of leading universities do much to define what secondary schools teach,…
The cloak of inevitability that Mitt Romney has been wearing -- on again, off again -- is suddenly and dramatically off again. Just as he…
I work for the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard's Kennedy School. Roy L. Ash, who died last month, stood for…
China’s president, Hu Jintao, greeted 2012 with an important essay warning that China was being battered by Western culture: “We must…
The world economy is entering a new phase, in which achieving global cooperation will become increasingly difficult. The United States and…
One of the most pervasive debates about managing people is whether using “hard” or “soft” approaches produces better performance. Hard…