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Over 4 million people are displaced in Colombia because of war; both the rightist paramilitary and the leftist guerillas steal land to make themselves richer.
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"I realized being in the jungle that what I had thought I could do—changing the way politics were being done in Colombia—was not possible the way I wanted to do […]
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Some of Betancourt’s fellow captives were critical of her behavior in their memoir. "I don’t want to judge them because I think we all are entitled to our truth and […]
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In order to respect herself and to keep hold of her sanity, Betancourt refused to follow her guards' orders. When you’re obliged to do things you don’t want to do, […]
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During her six years in captivity, the former Colombian presidential candidate learned that those who are stripped of power lash out against those who are equally powerless—just like children in […]
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A conversation with the former Colombian presidential candidate and political hostage.
How do you create a communication campaign that reaches every single person in the nation? More specifically, in a world of information disparities and fragmented attention, how do you create […]
Quick post (Department commitments now), but in an attempt to get comments working again, I've opened this new thread. I'll inquire about the problem with the comments - my guess […]
While coal has long supplied energy to the Navajo tribe in Arizona, new inspiration and political will is calling for renewable energy to build the society's future.
"Researchers find they can alleviate depression in mice by boosting a protein in one part of the brain." Technology Review on how gene therapy could be used in humans.
In 1916, Dr. T. Kenard Thomson proposed increasing N.Y.C.'s property value by creating a land bridge between Manhattan and Brooklyn and building an island off the Jersey shore.
France's new Internet piracy police has been scouring the Web for illegal downloaders of films and music, sending warning emails to suspected intellectual property thieves.
Does wine taste better in certain phases of the moon? Catherine Nixey examines a 20th century theory that says earth's satellite affects the taste of the vintage.
"The Bible exhorts us to love our neighbors. But what about our colleagues? Do we really need to love the people we work with?" Dr. Paul Zak on why love is essential in the workplace.
New research suggests that people are more comfortable with being dishonest on social networking sites like Twitter and Facebook than when speaking face-to-face.
"The west still rules—but this will change in the coming decades; indeed, geography may cease to matter." Ian Morris says the rate of global change is accelerating.
"The differences between Twitter and Facebook mirror a longstanding debate about how the human brain processes other people." The Frontal Cortex explains.
From high-speed rail and congestion pricing to privatization, Americans debate the best ways to invest in infrastructure and stimulate economic activity.
As Foreign Affairs, the sine qua non of policy journals, changes editorial hands, outgoing Editor Jim Hoge has given the world a great gift: a selection of suggestions for What […]
Yesterday's post ended by suggesting that a single-minded obsession with population actually distracts people from the difficult realities of the quest for sustainability in this century. Lest this sound like […]