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Reducing timber loss through responsible management of the world’s forest stock has the power to reduce poverty, conflict, and greenhouse gases. This policy paper details efforts to date and provides comprehensive proposals for much needed action.
Age of Greed
WPI Senior Fellow Jeff Madrick describes the history of how greed has bred America’s economic ills over the last forty years, and of the men most responsible for them. He recounts the single-minded pursuit of huge personal wealth that has been on the rise in the United States since the 1970s, led by a few individuals who have argued that self-interest guides society more effectively than community concerns.
World Policy on Air: Lawrence Wright
World Policy Journal Editor David Andelman talks with Lawrence Wright, journalist for the New Yorker and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction for his book “Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.” He has fashioned his writings into a one-man show and now an HBO Documentary which premiers on September 7.
Mr. Wright discusses his inside view of Al-Qaeda’s international network and its ties to the fragile status quo in Iraq and Afghanistan. On October 2, his latest one-man stage performance dealing with Gaza—The Human Scale—will make its debut at the New Yorker Festival.
Music courtesy of Eritarka under Creative Commons.
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