Taiwan: Stumbling in the Dark

Political news shook Taiwan’s economy last week. The tumultuous chain of events began with a cancelled power project, led to a cabinet shakeup, a warning to investors, and then a run on the stock market. Afterwards, Taiwan ‘s recently elected President...

Why Racism Persists

“Any Day Now,” a weekly sitcom on cable TV’s “Lifetime” channel, chronicles the lives of two woman-one black; the other white – who have renewed their childhood friendship that began in Birmingham, Alabama, during the early 1960s....

Rapid Climate Change and Human Intervention

The world’s climate can change in just a few decades without any human intervention. Jeffrey P. Severinghaus of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, using a new method of analyzing gases trapped in Greenland ice, showed air temperatures warming rapidly at...