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The Monitor's ViewCitiGroup shareholder revolt: golden-rule capitalismA shareholder revolt at banking giant CitiGroup that rejected a pay package for top executives marks a chance for a healthier relationship between investors and managers. It might also reduce the nation's income inequality.
Global ViewpointGordon Brown: 'Education without Borders' is a must for kids in conflict zonesFailure to protect the right to education for children in conflict zones fuels violence by drawing children to terrorist groups. In South Sudan, girls are more likely to die in childbirth than make it through primary school. The World Bank and IMF spring meeting must address this.- Global ViewpointGordon Brown: 'Education without Borders' is a must for kids in conflict zonesFailure to protect the right to education for children in conflict zones fuels violence by drawing children to terrorist groups. In South Sudan, girls are more likely to die in childbirth than make it through primary school. The World Bank and IMF spring meeting must address this.
OpinionWhy Obama can't control gas pricesMany of us fail to understand a near-maxim of gas prices: No one can really control them and certainly not an American president. And we should know why that is the case since the price of gasoline impacts us all and the global economy.
OpinionBashar al-Assad may be beating Annan plan in Syria for now, but he won't for longPutting UN monitors on the ground in Syria as part of Kofi Annan鈥檚 wider peace plan is a constructive step forward. But for now, Bashar al-Assad continues to set most of the terms.聽With more creative international action he will not be able to do so in the medium to long term.
The Monitor's ViewThe GSA and Secret Service scandals: Where's the public virtue?The misconduct of Secret Service agents and General Services Administration (GSA) workers must lead to reforms and better education of public workers about their special role.
Look! Up in the sky! It's Space Shuttle Discovery.This morning, I laced up my office set of tennis shoes and walked to the Washington Monument to witness the final flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery headed for its museum resting place. The crowd pointed excitedly as if they were looking at Superman. And in a way, they were.
OpinionRussia protests are overblown by West. Putin is here to stay.Mesmerized by Moscow protests, Western observers predict President-elect Vladimir Putin鈥檚 demise. But the politically active middle class is small and limited. US policy must be based on a realistic analysis of Putin鈥檚 support, not unfounded assessments that he's on his last legs.
OpinionTax day: How to remind Americans that paying taxes is a conservative valueTo help create a political climate in which Americans can talk sensibly about taxes, let's start with kids: It鈥檚 time to make The Tax Talk with our kids just as much a part of our culture as The Sex Talk or The Drugs Talk.
The Monitor's ViewArtful diplomacy with Syria and IranKofi Annan and Catherine Ashton each relied on delicate diplomacy to bring some fragile hope to two big security issues 鈥� Iran's nuclear program and the civil war in Syria.
OpinionBigger scandal in Latin America than US secret service: US drug hungerThe secret service prostitution scandal overshadows renewed calls at the Summit of the Americas for the US to stanch its drug consumption. A viral 'Drug Violence 2012' video (think 'Kony 2012') would help young Americans聽connect US drug use to violence in Central and South America.
OpinionGregg Williams audio and Saints bounty program test my football faithFootball for me has always been a kind of faith. But now the audio of former New Orleans Saints defensive coach Gregg Williams instructing his team to injure players is testing that faith.聽As a lifelong NFL fan, I need to know that I鈥檓 not financing cruel blood sport.
The Monitor's ViewThe Ann Romney flap and women's rolesThe flap over the Hilary Rosen comment about stay-at-home mom Ann Romney only exposes a deeper issue about self-sacrifice 鈥� for both men and women.
OpinionNorth Korea rocket launch: Why Kim failed the testNorth Korea's failed rocket launch symbolizes the inefficacy of Pyongyang's economic and political system and the crash of brief hopes that the new Kim regime might lead to rapprochement with South Korea and the United States.
No crusty journalist complaint here: Caine's Arcade is more than a distracting fadWe sometimes complain that fickle聽Internet fads drive聽our news coverage. But Caine's Arcade made the virtual front pages for all the right reasons. The phenomenon聽provides another example of how the Web 2.0 world informs media coverage 鈥� and better yet 鈥� inspires action.
OpinionIran talks: Why time is ripe for compromisePositive signals from Iran and the United States are encouraging as talks on Tehran's nuclear program get underway, writes a political expert from Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The Monitor's ViewLift Latin America's 'drug curse'At the Summit of the Americas, Obama will likely be asked to discuss alternatives to the get-tough tactics on the drug trade 鈥� even to endorse legalization. He should point to Latin America's successes in giving economic alternatives to drug trafficking.
OpinionThe danger that Saudi Arabia will turn Syria into an Islamist hotbedA tentative UN-brokered ceasefire does not settle Western concerns over Saudi intervention in Syria. While the US and its allies are wary of seeing Syria become a sectarian battleground, the power brokers in Riyadh seem to have been hurtling toward it 鈥� with a form of state-sponsored jihad.
OpinionHey SCOTUS, we already have a federal mandate for health careUS law requires emergency rooms to treat patients regardless of their ability to pay. As a hospital CEO, I assure you, we already have a form of universal health care. We simply fund and supply it in an exorbitantly expensive way. Obamacare's individual mandate provides the solution.
The Monitor's ViewA tsunami-warning system makes wavesBig lessons can be learned from Wednesday's giant earthquake off Indonesia that led to an Indian Ocean-wide tsunami warning. The new system, set up since the big 2004 disaster, worked.
