Economically Empowered Girls Can Stop Poverty Before It Starts [Infographic]
Earning a safe income and having savings are just the beginning of the story. The economic empowerment of adolescent girls has a positive knock-on effect to other development areas including education, health, unemployment and ...
The Pros and Cons of Drafting Israel’s Ultra-Orthodox
The Israeli public largely objects to the current policy of allowing ultra-orthodox Jewish youth to avoid army service, but the rule has long been upheld thanks to political power play. Now, for the first time in 18 years, an I...
Iran and the Arab Uprisings
Ever since the Islamic Revolution, Iran has tried to cast itself as the head of the radical camp in the Middle East. Iran’s foreign policy did not lose its revolutionary zeal through the years. Iranian support for radical mov...
The Changing Face of Cuba: Communism to Capitalism
For over half a century Cuba has been ruled by the Castro regime and has remained largely cut off from the rest of the world. The island’s economy is in a state of collapse and still inhabits the crippling stranglehold of the...
The EU’s Radical Shift on Biofuels: How Will Member States Respond?
The European Commission has recently admitted to being wrong in promoting first generation biofuels. By proposing amendments to its Directive on the matter, the Commission intends to limit the role biofuels can make in attainin...
WATCH: Are Schools Killing Creativity?
“Human intelligence is richer and more dynamic than we have been led to believe by formal academic education” In the TED talk below, Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an...
