International Political Will

Garbage is a problem that has plagued India for longer than most people have been alive.
Gandhi addressed it in his day, noting Indian’s penchant for keeping their houses immaculate yet caring little for anything outside of their doors. And this was 50 years before plastic.

Any area in India where people live is cursed with plastic. [...]

I believe the word is “appeasement.”
Obama, after first making an allegedly “bold” stand on the Israeli settlement issue a few months ago (even though his “bold stand” was the same as every other president that came before him…) has caved. Given in. Cried ‘Uncle.’ Bent over.
Appeased.
Except when the U.S. government whimpers and admits defeat to [...]

There is one scene in Slumdog Millionaire – perhaps only 3 or 4 seconds long – where a man on the street looks directly at the camera and utters “no filming.”
I’m not sure why the director kept the shot in the final cut, but the scene demonstrates just how real the visuals are. The movie [...]

It’s a popular and common theme for taxpayers to lament the supposed safety net that welfare and social programs provide for America’s poor. The old advice to “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” and the “rags to riches” myth are embedded in American tradition. Taxpayers repeat the same tired mantras about “poor, lazy [...]

Everyone knows the story about India’s amazing economic development.
We hear on nightly media magazines like 20/20 and 60 Minutes about how our 24-hour customer service call centers that are being outsourced to Bangalore to provide middle-class jobs to young people.
President Bush likes to blame India’s “rising middle-class” for the global food crisis and rising energy [...]