Privatization of Russian urban and agricultural landoccurred within a bare-bones and flawed democracy, often against well-organized popular opposition.

"Old Europe"--the Western European and Scandinavian countries--has become, to some critics, a symbol of economic stagnation and political gridlock. But in recent years, many European countries have adopted reform policies that will surprise many Americans. Indeed, Western Europe is fast becoming a land of "new ideas" from which American policymakers can learn.

India desperately needs water reform, and especially privatization, but even the current Indian government is unlikely to try to tackle hydro-politics.

Russia must implement radical reforms.

Counting only current changes in revenue and not future changes in liability would land people in jail if they were working for anyone other than the government.

It’s time for the Pentagon and the American defense industry to develop a new way of doing business. They must look to Israel.

More than 1 billion people on Earth live without access to clean water.

As aesthetic values lose their importance to the European public, the old European sense that sacred things are not for sale has been replaced by the American attitude toward branding the downtown urban space.