The thunderous applause broke out as soon as Governor Maura Healey officially took up the title. Her number two, Lieutenant Governor Kim Driscoll, took the oath next. Their speeches hit on climate change, transportation and housing. “Let’s chart our path forward, walk...
BGF chose this image as a symbol of the Global Enlightenment Age. MIT Professor Nazli Choucri, BGF Board Member, wrote: Three Critical Imperatives for the Age of Global Enlightenment Sustainability in framing and implementation of vision – while taking on...
China's real jobless rate may be considerably higher than the official 5 percent. Bai Peiwei, an economics professor at Xiamen University, estimates, in the words of Bloomberg News, that the rate "may be 10 percent in industries with excess capacity, such as...
The leaders of Germany, France and Italy -- the Eurozone's three largest countries -- are meeting on a small southern Italian island for talks on how the European Union should proceed following Britain’s vote to leave. Italy’s prime minister, Matteo Renzi, German...
An increasing number of young people in Europe are neither working, nor in school nor being trained. This bodes ill for the socio-economic future of the Continent. Bloomberg reports that "The problem isn't only that they are currently without a job. They 'face...
President Obama next month will make what is expected to be his final trip to Asia. There he will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping and other world leaders. During his time in the White House, Mr. Obama has sought to "rebalance" America's defense and...
This Guardian piece takes you inside Syrian dictator Bashar Assad's giant prison and torture chamber, where people seized by Assad's forces undergo horrific abuse. "Now ex-detainees and architects have built an accurate model, using 'ear-witness' testimony, of...
U.S. officials see the recapture of an Islamic State stronghold in Syria -- the city of Manbij -- as a model for future U.S.-backed operations against the murderous terror group, and especially for supporting a march by allied forces on Raqqa, the group's...