GlobalShift

The Obama administration announced that it is proposing to form a new agency to study and report on climate change. Secretary of Commerce Gary Locke and the head of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Jane Lubchenco, said that NOAA will set up the new Climate Service to operate in tandem with NOAA’s National Weather [...]

Megan Eaves of StudentsInEurope.com shares her thoughts with us in regard to the culture shock that can hit when American students spend an extended amount of time in a foreign country.
9 Tips for Overcoming Culture Shock
When I was studying abroad, I knew several other students that had so much trouble with culture shock that they [...]

The Democratic Republic of Congo is home to the world’s deadliest war since World War II and chances are, you don’t know much about it. In fact, the relative obscurity of the ongoing violence that has caused 10 million deaths and led to millions displaced has become almost as dumbfounding as the conflict itself. The [...]

Right now, U.S. debt stands at just over 11 trillion dollars and it’s growing everyday. Many are coming to understand that the ballooning debt is going to cause adverse reactions in the domestic economy, despite claims to the otherwise by folks like Ben Bernanke and Paul Krugman. However, it’s not only domestic affairs that will [...]

2/3rds of all inmates in the United States are non-violent petty offenders who have not even been convicted of a crime — they simply do not have the money to pay bail as small as $50. In the meantime, bondsmen reap huge profits, generations of lives are ruined, and justice is unfairly served.

Hedy Epstein is what some might see as a contradiction in terms: a survivor of the Holocaust and also a staunch advocate for the Palestinian people. Born in 1924 in Freiburg, Germany, Epstein was 14 when she escaped from Nazi persecution via the Kinderstransport to England. Since her 1948 arrival in the U.S., Epstein has [...]

Inspired by JFK’s ambition to send Americans to the moon in 1969, famed Ford executive Lee Iacocca gave an exalted mandate to his team of engineers. Facing low-cost, high-mileage foreign competition for the first time, Ford set a specific target: design a new automobile that weighs less than 2,000 pounds and sold for under $2,000. [...]

The Obama administration recently announced that they would stand firm on having President Obama meet with the Dalai Lama even though China warned that such a move would place Sino-American relations in a precarious position.
The Chinese Government responded to this decision from the White House by saying they “resolutely oppose” any meetings between the Dalai [...]

Celebrity adoptions of foreign children have been increasingly common, and increasingly controversial. Angelina Jolie and Madonna in particular caused a flurry of publicity when adopting several children from overseas. The children seem happy, and people assume, what Third World child wouldn’t want to live a glamorous Hollywood lifestyle? However, no one sees the true difficulty [...]

Film maker, Darryl Roberts, spent the past five years gathering interviews and stories to create his potent documentary, America the Beautiful. This film captures the excessive emphasis on “perfect” beauty in American culture and the consequences of this mentality.
The documentary chronicles the rise and fall of Gerren Taylor, a runway model who began her career [...]