 | | November 18, 2011 |  | Americans try to balance the budget themselves- playing a new game, Budget Hero, over 1 million times. more | | Are You a Budget Hero? |  | November 17, 2011 Budget hero, developed by American Public Media and The Wilson Center, gives people the chance to do what Congress hasn't yet managed—balance the federal budget. | Filling in the Gaps |  | November 10, 2011 When it comes to equality between the sexes, women have made dramatic strides in recent decades. In spite of that good news, a new report reveals a significant gender gap persists in two critical areas: economic equality and political power. | Following the Money Trail in Guatemala |  | November 17, 2011 Newly elected President of Guatemala Otto Perez Molina has promised a crackdown on crime and drug-related violence but he faces rampant corruption and one of the lowest tax bases in the hemisphere. An exclusive interview with with former Guatemalan Vice President Eduardo Stein about the challenges ahead for his country and its new President. | The Impact of China's Economic Boom |  | November 16, 2011 How is it that the Communist Party in China remains in power more than 20 years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall and changes in Moscow triggered confident talk of an impending "Leninist Extinction"? What kinds of impact on the world is China's economic boom and rising influence in global affairs having? | Wilson in the News | Distinguished Scholar Robin Wright discusses the 2012 candidates' foreign policy strategies, especially those on Iran. | Undisciplined, angry, thin-skinned and unpopular with many Republicans, not to mention independent voters, Gingrich has up till now been running what many considered a vanity campaign to sell books and increase his speaking fees and national profile, says Senior Scholar Linda Killian. No Republican operatives I've spoken with think he's a threat to become the nominee, even now. | Public Policy Scholar Aaron David Miller appeared on NPR's Talk of the Nation, for an extended conversation on Iran, the IAEA report, and Israel with Mike Shuster, foreign correspondent for NPR and Robert Kagan, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. | The long arc of the Arab Spring may yet bring real reform to the Arab world, says Public Policy Scholar Aaron David Miller. But the short term all but guarantees a much less hospitable and forbidding place for America. | They are one step ahead of the protesters," says Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. "They are much more sensitive to the demands of the people and are trying to open up and introduce reform." | Taking the latter path could be disastrous for both Guatemala and the hemisphere. "The assumption shouldn't be that the military is the solution when the military in Guatemala is very much a part of the problem," says Cynthia Arnson, director of the Latin America program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. The Guatemalan military was, after all, responsible for some of the worst atrocities committed during the Central American civil wars of the 1980s, sowing a culture of impunity that a generation later only helps gangsters flourish. | If Canada is going to get a real seat at Trans-Pacific Partnership discussion, it must still be willing to show flexibility on issues of interest to key trading partners, says Public Policy Scholar Laura Dawson. It must also convince potential U.S. allies of the importance of a united front at the TPP on issues of importance to North American businesses and consumers. | Public Policy Scholar Aaron David Miller discusses the most recent Republican presidential debate and the foreign policy stances taken by possible nominees. | Until recently, the idea of coping with climate change by means of geoengineering was something it seemed no one wanted to talk about. Even people who saw potential merit in deliberately altering conditions on Earth or in the atmosphere to mitigate climate change feared that if people thought there was an engineering fix, it would encourage them to abandon efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. All that is changing, as a new report from the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, "Geoengineering for Decision Makers," reflects. | Program Associate for the Asia Program Michael Kugelman's satirical story about Ug Lee American, the first American to run for president of Pakistan and his campaign strategy. | "It's a tragedy," said Eric Olson, a security expert with the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. "There has been a revolving door for the ministry, and its role has to do with police reform, migration, intelligence, all key issues in the battle against organized crime. The fact that they haven't had continuity in that position is a major factor." | In the long-running Western debate over what to do about Iran's nuclear program, fresh language has been as rare as fresh ideas. But here's a novel phrase worth noting: "Striking Iranian nuclear sites is like mowing the grass." How so? The man who coined the simile, Middle East scholar Aaron David Miller, argues that no strike, or series of strikes, could permanently cripple the Iranian capacity to produce and weaponize fissile material. | Deputy Director at the Kennan Institute William Pomeranz and Senior Policy Scholar William Krist talk about Russia's accession to the WTO and its impact both politically and economically. | | | | | | Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
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