George W. Bush's policies have the unintended effect of fighting global warming
Jurriaan Kamp | December 2005 issue
This may be the perfect political paradox: George W. Bush paving the way to do something about global warming. On the face of it, the Bush administration is doing everything Read More...
While Europeans laugh at the U.S. for its "dreams," optimism has long been its most important export. But has that all changed since 9/11?
Thomas L. Friedman | September 2005 issue
Two years ago, my older daughter, Orly, played in her high school’s symphonic orchestra in a suburb of Read More...
Is Nigeria's booming film industry pioneering an Afrocentric cinema or just grinding out third-rate pulp?
Jonathan Kiefer| October 2006 issue
Nigeria’s film industry—or Nollywood, as it’s been dubbed by the media—is the third largest in the world, behind the United States’ Hollywood and Read More...
Water might be the simplest way to prevent many modern illnesses
Tijn Touber | October 2006 issue
In 1979, when the ayatollahs in Iran seized power from the shah, the Iranian doctor Fereydoon Batmanghelidj—like many other intellectuals—ended up in the notorious Evin prison in Tehran. One Read More...
We live in a world where it often seems that our fears outweigh our hope that things can get better. And, yes, there are many concerns worth worrying about. Yet, rather than running from the problems we must embrace a powerful tool that will help us overcome what's wrong-inspiration. It is a Read More...
The people of the Arctic face an impossible choice: abandon their traditional foods, or ingest high levels of poison from the rest of the world with every bite.
Marla Cone | November 2005 issue
On a sheet of ice where the Arctic Ocean meets the North Atlantic in the territorial waters of Read More...