These Are 40 of the Most Terrifying Words in Donald Trump's U.N. Address

Ideas These Are 40 of the Most Terrifying Words in Donald Trump's U.N. Address President Donald Trump is poised to make one of the most fateful decisions of his White House tenure. In his speech to the United Nations General Assembly, he lambasted the regime in Iran and, in a

NASA Contiartic-ice-council-oil-drillingnues Efforts To Monitor Arctic Ice Loss With Research Flights Over Greenland and Canada

Ideas A Melting Arctic Could Spark a New Cold War In a land as unforgiving as the Arctic, cooperation is critical to survival. That simple principle, called Piliriqatigiingniq, is a pillar of an ancient social code that has guided Inuit through

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Ideas Is China the New Global Champion of Openness?According to recent reports, China’s president, Xi Jinping, will appear at next month’s meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland—the first time that a Chinese

Republican presidential-elect Donald Trump USA Thank You Tour 2016

Ideas Donald Trump’s Top Priority Must Be a Strong China Strategy As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office in January, one challenge looms large: China and its expanding role in the vital Asia-Pacific region. The incoming Administration will need to

A Syrian medical staff member inspects the damage at the site of a medical facility after it was reportedly hit by Syrian regime barrel bombs on Oct. 1, 2016, in the rebel-held neighbourhood of al-Sakhour, in the northern city of Aleppo.

Ideas Obituary: A Hospital in Aleppo (2013-2016)What happens when a hospital gets destroyed in war? Like a dead star, it collapses and burns, sending ripples of consequences to communities around it. It leaves a black hole for our collective

Nepal: Ramadan a Holy Month of Muslim celebrates in Nepan

Ideas Local Communities Must Take the Lead in Global Change Like many other countries around the world, my home country, Nepal, faces major educational and economic challenges. Only one in 10 children who start school in Nepal today will complete secondary

Ideas David Miliband: How to Bring Peace to the World’s Longest Civil War Sixty years into the world’s longest civil war, the transition to peaceful democracy in Myanmar remains elusive. The U.N. recently reported that up to 30,000 Muslims had fled their homes amid

Ideas My Aunt Overcame Pakistan's Repressive Laws to Stay True to Her Muslim Faith Honor and glory be always with thee God’s blessings shower down on all Thy beneficiaries, patients and workers My aunt, Dr. Nusrat Jahan, penned the above lines of poetry in 2003 for the

Ideas Donald Trump Is Legitimizing China's Communist Party The erosion of democracies strengthens dictatorships. And President-elect Donald Trump continues to weaken people’s belief in the integrity of the American political system and his own

Joe Kaeser, chief executive officer of Siemens AG, pauses during a news conference to announce a joint bid with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. for Alstom SA, in Paris on June 17, 2014.

Ideas To Beat Climate Change, Digitalize the Electrical World On April 12, 1870, a message from England clicked through on a telegraph machine almost seven thousand miles away in India—the first dispatch sent via a monumental telegraph line that Siemens

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