Sebastian Pinera is celebrating. After months of campaigning, and participating in a grueling run-off election, the Chilean billionaire has been elected to the highest office of his land. For the first time in fifty years, the Chilean ruling party has become conservative. Left wing parties have won Chilean elections since the end of the rule... »

Barack Obama is set to make his first State of the Union Address tonight. Both critics and supporters will be watching carefully as the President attempts to downplay recent failures, extol his achievements and set the agenda for the next year.Traditionally State of the Union addresses run for “45 minutes to 60 minutes” according... »

In a shocking victory, Republican Scott Brown was fortunately the candidate to replace the Democratic 46 year veteran, Teddy Kennedy, for the Massachusetts Congressional Senate seat. Given that Brown’s opponent was Martha Coakley, a Democrat who held the prestigious position of Massachusetts Attorney General, he really should have lost. Though some might... »

George Orwell once wrote that "if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought".i Sixty years later, political prose is as insidious as ever, with 80% of Americans kept politically illiterate mostly due to the propaganda of Fox News and the disinterest stemming from our thoroughly inept leaders . For a civil society... »

As everyone now knows, on January 12th Haiti had been struck by a devastating earthquake that killed thousands of people. According to the United States Agency for International Development, the estimated death toll is 100,000, and nearly 3 million people have been affected. Clearly, this is a terrible tragedy. So, what was the... »

The New York Times reported that Google plans to shut down all operations in China due to assaults from hackers, as well as, China’s attempts to limit free speech online . Although this makes Google sound heroic, it hardly sounds like the truth in its totality. Google is a multinational corporation that... »

This column comments on potential misconceptions between the United States and China. Misunderstandings between individuals are some of the greatest sources of conflict that can enter a relationship. Friendships have ended because one person thought that the other meant something else; marriages have broken because of misconceptions about the other partner’s intentions or actions.... »

History is marked by a series of conflicts – kinetic and potential; Chinese activities in Central Asia are exemplary of this. On December 14, 2009, Turkmenistan began its exportation of 40 billion cubic meters (bcm hereafter) of natural gas to the Chinese Xinjiang Province, with contributions of 10 bcm from both Uzbekistan and... »

The Northwest Airlines Flight 253 bombing attempt, now known as the Christmas Day bombing attempt, shows us a situation in which all parties involved have remarkably failed. As someone who will be flying from New York to Arizona in early January, my optimism from going from 37° to 73° is disturbed by the knowledge... »