New Delhi’s Soft Power Push
By Harsh V. Pant Yale Global During his travels, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes a point of promoting India’s soft power – including Bollywood, Sufi music and yoga as […]
Monthly Archives: August 2015
Using Financial Sticks to Control Iran
By Juan Zarate & Chip Poncy The Washington Post As Congress considers the Iranian nuclear deal, it should also prepare a strategy to use U.S. financial and economic power aggressively […]
Should Cops Get to Review the Video Before They Report?
By Kathy Pezdek The Marshall Project The scenario is all too familiar. A police officer with a dash-cam or body camera stops an individual, the situation escalates, the individual is […]
Arctic Oil: High Risk, Low Price
By Kevin McGwin The Arctic Journal “The Leiv Eriksson is perhaps the most controversial oil rig anywhere on the planet.” That was the assessment made in 2011 by Ben Ayliffe, […]
The Nature of Finnish-Russian Relations
By Masha Gessen Harper’s Magazine Finns find it difficult to talk about the Winter War. Its history—both the official version in the schoolbooks and the unofficial version recalled by the […]
How Uber Could Help Change Spycraft
By Aliya Sternstein Defense One The intelligence community this month quietly released an unprecedented, unclassified five-year-roadmap charting the future of data analysis it wants commercial startups like ride-sharing firm Uber to read. […]
The Impact of Fairer Sentencing for Crack Possession
By Lauren Kirchner Pacific Standard “First of all, let’s get one thing straight: crack is cheap,” Whitney Houston told Diane Sawyer, defiantly, in a now-infamous 2002 interview. “I make too […]
Can we Reverse the Aging Process by Putting Young Blood into Older People?
By Ian Sample The Guardian For much of history, people sought to halt ageing to achieve immortality – or at least to live for hundreds of years. These days, scientists […]
Should Prison Sentences Be Based On Crimes That Haven’t Been Committed Yet?
By Anna Maria Barry-Jester, Ben Casselman, & Dana Goldstein FiveThirtyEight Criminal sentencing has long been based on the present crime and, sometimes, the defendant’s past criminal record. In Pennsylvania, judges […]
Conserving Species with no Natural Habitat
By Andreas Kuersten Arctic Summer College The Arctic is most famous for its frigid expanses of snow and ice and the massive mammals that traverse these environments – e.g. polar […]
