Culture in the Blender

The IHT reports that WTO negotiators are suggesting that the WTO structure needs to change to accommodate the global south in order to simplify negotiations.
Is this the beginning of the re-balancing of economic power from the global north to the global south? Is this the moment?

In addition to getting my PhD in materials science and engineering and doing various academic-type things, I work part-time for the largest student-run consulting organization in the US.
Once a business brat, perhaps always a business brat – I feel very alive in business casual clothes giving presentations to clients or cracking a problem with my [...]

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

This seems to be the time to have deep things to say about celebrating the 4th of July, whether it’s about American hypocracy in some way or other or tear-jerking statements about freedom and liberty. What I have to say is neither.
Conversations with non-Americans have made me think about this country for a while now. [...]