"Traveling around China and Singapore last week, I was confronted repeatedly with an attitude toward America that I've never heard before: 'What’s up with you guys?'" Thomas Friedman is our nation's greatest foreign correspondent.
We live in strange, strange times: Germany is now the most positively viewed nation in the world.
The Water Wars and Urban Sprawl of 2030
The year 2030 is only 17 short years away. (Wow. I can remember when it was 25 years away.) What will the world be like in 2030? According to a new "Global Trends" report from the US National Intelligence office—a deeply researched report provocative in its predictions which will, in all likelihood, be ignored, like…
Foreign Losers Declare America the Coolest Nation Ever
The people at Badoo, a social networking site largely used by non-Americans, asked some 30,000 users to rate the world's coolest nation, and guess what? They chose America. OF COURSE they did. America wins, coolly!
International Site Forces Reporters to Listen to Wingnuts Around the World
How in the world can you make an online news site full of foreign coverage profitable these days? With gimmicks! How would you like to speak to a real live reporter, on the telephone?
