On December 27, 2010, businessmen and entrepreneurs Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev received the maximum sentence, fourteen years, on patently fabricated charges. What is the impact of the sentencing on the Russian economy and foreign investments? How will the democratic opposition proceed in this political climate? And how should US policymakers deal with this new reality?

A exposé purporting to show that Bonn-based Fairtrade International (FLO),the world’s largest labeller of ethical goods, had failed in its oversight of a project in west Africa that supplies Limited Brands-owned Victoria’s Secret.  The project  was paying sub-par wages to children labouring in inhumane conditions and helps drive a wedge between FLO and FairTrade USA.

One year after the enactment of ObamaCare, the broader American public remains ready to return more than just a few of the defective or unwanted aspects of the law--it wants a divorce of it entirely.

The war in Iraq needed a hero. That need drove the story of Jessica Lynch.

For grant-winners whose studies will involve human volunteers, another big hurdle remains: federal ethics regulations.

The choices within the climate change debate are extraordinarily difficult. Imperfect people, not pure science, must decide our course of action.

Four weeks ago, Yasser Arafat declared that the Jewish people have never had any connection to Jerusalem. Arafat's challenge is not religious belief; it is a political challenge.

Review of The Future of Iraq: Dictatorship, Democracy, or Division? by Liam Anderson and Gareth Stansfield.