Yale Daily News

For all the talk of modernization, China is still a very insular place. Even in Beijing, it’s possible to walk for hours without seeing another […]

October 20, 2011

I was 10 years old on 9/11. It was just another day in fifth grade — until class was interrupted for a special announcement. Nothing […]

September 9, 2011

After weeks of infighting, the heavies in Washington have finally crafted a deal to keep the federal government in the green. Yet, for all the […]

April 11, 2011

When 1992 presidential candidate Ross Perot depicted the potential outcome of NAFTA as a “giant sucking sound,” he had in mind a gushing of jobs […]

April 4, 2011

The story is sadly familiar: A major energy company consistently ignores warnings that a key facility is unsafe. Time and again, the company chooses the […]

March 27, 2011

It seems like the French are as fond as ever of a good ol’ national myth. The latest gem out of Paris goes something like […]

March 26, 2011

This week, I received the strangest of emails from a remote connection in China. Perceiving that her childhood English nickname “little Panda” wasn’t conducive to […]

February 25, 2011

One week has passed since the big hits and excitement of Super Bowl XLV and things are back to normal at Cowboys Stadium. In other […]

February 14, 2011

When the president of the World Bank comes to town, one expects there to be fireworks. Memories of the so-called Battle in Seattle still loom […]

February 10, 2011

In the past few months, a familiar fear has grasped the American psyche: that our geopolitical dominance is being undermined by a relentless challenger. Gone […]

January 31, 2011

To many observers around the world, last week’s Jasmine Revolution in Tunisia offered proof of the Internet’s potential to promote freedom. As seen two years […]

January 18, 2011