In this, the second part of my attempt to bring some clarity to what has been going down in the United Kingdom over the past week and a half, I’m going to cover some larger issues. What does this mean for Europe? How about US-UK relations? Read on and you’ll find out.

Well the dust has begun to settle. Nick Clegg, the media’s darling lost big. Labour was crushed, signaling the end of Gordon Brown’s tenure as Prime Minister. David Cameron, who so desperately wanted to be Prime Minister fell just short of the number of seats that he needed. The bottom line is that in the UK’s confusing political system, everyone lost.

In just a few short hours, I will embark on my journey to the historic Land of Kings, Rajasthan. As my trip is extremely relevant to the purpose of this blog, I hope to use the opportunity as a forum to give first hand accounts of what I am seeing and hearing and then start [...]

It doesn’t take a genius to realize that Haiti will need more than a little push from the outside world if they ever are to sustainably climb out of poverty. But out past efforts at providing aid for development have failed. Thus, I hope that we take the opportunity that this tragedy has provided to rethink our approach to tackling global poverty. It’s high time for some new ideas.

Rumor has it that Barack Obama is nearing his big decision about the war in Afghanistan. Will it define his presidency just as Vietnam defined Lyndon Johnson’s? Unlikely. Afghanistan is not Vietnam.

Take offense, Kim Jong-il. Jacob Heilbrunn of Foreign Policy recently declared that Ban Ki-Moon is in fact the world’s most dangerous Korean. Undoubtedly, this is a bold statement to make. Then again, the United Nations has been so often overlooked and overshadowed, especially during the Bush years. What do we really know about a man [...]