The Courthouse Effect
Our planet is getting warmer. This poses a threat to all of us. Politicians are failing to turn the tide. So do corporations and consumers. Here's a glimmer of hope: Lawyers in the U.S. are gearing up to file suit against industries creating greenhouse gases. Jurriaan Kamp | June 2006 issue Back in Read More...
Right turn on green
The rise of a political paradox brings hope for the world Jay Walljasper | June 2006 issue Modern politics is notorious for the way it creates strange new meanings for familiar words. “National security,” for instance, now means attacking distant countries. “Choice,” in American electoral Read More...
Two cheers for globalism
...and then two more for localism Jay Walljasper | June 2006 issue One of the basic tenets drilled into students at U.S. journalism schools is that every story has two sides. But in college I was lucky to run into a German-émigré professor who—perhaps hearing enough about tenets of all kinds Read More...
Yogurt is only part of the story...
Crist Marco Visscher | June 2006 issue Each month La Fageda sells 2 million containers of yogurt in Catalonia, Spain, to a growing group of faithful consumers prepared to pay for quality—and a unique social experiment. The company’s natural yogurts, you see, are produced largely by disabled and Read More...
Green China
Could the world's fastest-growing economic power become a model for environmental protection? Craig Cox | June 2006 Read More...
A massive outbreak of peace
New peacemakers have emerged in the 21st century. They're not political leaders. They're not savvy diplomats. They're people like you. Marco Visscher and Michael Gleich | June 2006 Read More...
Rising up in Riyadh
A young novelist's condemnation of tradition becomes an underground bestseller in Saudi Arabia Marco Visscher | June 2006 issue In chapter one, a woman discovers on her honeymoon that her husband has been unfaithful. She forgives him and becomes pregnant, but he later hits her and sends her away. A Read More...
The secret to highly successful people
June 2006 issue When the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990, the general public and scientists in the aerospace field both held high hopes. The world waited expectantly for answers to riddles of the universe that would be revealed Read More...
Wild in the streets of Damascus
Recent riots in the Middle East turn a colony of young global expats upside down Aatish Taseer | June 2006 issue The last time I saw my friend Torbjorn Askevold, we were eating okra and mutton in my flat near the diplomatic quarter of Damascus, Syria. The 22-year-old Norwegian theology student, who Read More...
The walking cure
Taking a stroll not only boosts our health and reduces our weight; it also keeps us happy Jay Walljasper | June 2006 issue Walking is one of the most elemental human acts, essential to our lives in the same way as breathing, eating and sleeping. Putting one foot in front of the other is Read More...