World Watch
Insight on what's happening beyond the United States.
- Heat without Light Claude Barfield 11/27/2012
- The Obama administration owes it to the American people to make public the results of its extensive 18-month investigation of Huawei.
- The Deadly Crusade Against E-cigarettes Gilbert Ross, M.D. 11/15/2012
- What the critics see as a bug is actually a feature: e-cigarettes can work as a public health tool precisely because of their resemblance to the real thing.
- How China Became Capitalist Nick Schulz 11/14/2012
- Nobel Prize–winning economist Ronald Coase and Professor Ning Wang on the transformation of the Chinese economy.
- Why Growth Is the Environment’s Best Friend Kenneth P. Green 11/07/2012
- The single best thing we could do to minimize energy’s impact on the environment is to not only maximize our own economic growth but also to help developing countries increase theirs.
- The Scariest Day of My Life John Steele Gordon 10/22/2012
- ‘It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response.’
- Europe vs. Scientific Consensus Henry I. Miller and Drew L. Kershen 10/19/2012
- All of Europe ranks behind countries like Uruguay, Pakistan, and the Philippines in the cultivation of recombinant DNA-modified crops.
- Don Quixote Is Alive and Well and Living in Spain Desmond Lachman 10/17/2012
- Spain is the euro area’s fourth-largest economy. Bad government policy threatens the whole euro project and the global economy.
- A Son of Europe Reflects on the EU’s Nobel Prize Vaclav Smil 10/15/2012
- The Nobel Committee should have named the U.S. and NATO as equal co-recipients for their role in transforming Europe ‘from a continent of war to a continent of peace.’
- Combatting Corruption Roger Bate 10/12/2012
- Corruption threatens freedom and economic growth around the world.
- Stop Apologizing for Our Liberties Lee Harris 09/26/2012
- You cannot apologize to a fanatic. It only serves to convince him that he was right all along, and that is the last course the United States should be pursuing at this critical juncture of world history.