International Political Will

If I had to pin down one main impediment to development in Mumbai, it would have to be the “not my problem” attitude. This attitude is pervasive not only in the government bureaucracy, but in individual citizens.
I pass a construction site each day walking to and from work. It is right on a busy street, [...]

ABC’s journey to the dark side of journalism - that began with selling out to the Disney Company and continued when morning talk show personality Charles Gibson was promoted to “news” anchor - was completed with last week’s democratic primary debate.
ABC tape-delayed the debate, assuring that it filled the prime time spot at 8 p.m. [...]

Major media outlets reported that a man arrested yesterday in the United States possessed a cache of illegal firearms, anti-government propaganda calling for the violent overthrow of the U.S. government, and a substantial amount of a deadly biological weapon that was also found in Afghanistan after the fall of the Taliban.
According to the FBI, the [...]

The dusty, pot-holed streets of Kabul led to a section of town where the houses morphed from mud-brick structures to multi-story, brightly painted pink, yellow, and green homes with barbed wire-topped security walls.
I was tracking down the head of the Islamic Scholars Council, who was a supporter of progressive women’s rights based on the [...]

Mornings in Mumbai are the quietest the city ever gets. Even the beggars haven’t made their way out to patrol the intersections and sidewalks. The hour in the morning before the rush hour traffic begins is a chance to see how many Mumbaikars live their life.
On one particular spot on the sidewalk, a [...]