Month: March 2019

Perfectionists get things done, right? They’re more detail-oriented, meticulous, and effective than the rest of us—or so we’ve been led to believe. But new research out of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, published in the open-access online journal PLOS ONE, has upended that longstanding myth: When put to the test, perfectionists don’t actually work…

Last week’s shoot-out in the sleepy Transcarpathian town of Mukacheve in western Ukraine has had a serious impact on the country's politics. In just one week, both the governor of Transcarpathia and top officials in the local security ministries have lost their jobs. Talk of a Third Maidan—even of a coup—has returned. With several Rada…

Flickr/Brookings Institution. Some rights reserved.At the end of April the media reported that a government "downgraded" the role of its finance minister because of his allegedly poor handling of the negotiations over the Greek debt. I regret that this targeted the wrong finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis not Wolfgang Schäuble. If as speculation has it, the…

The crowded and often perilous thoroughfares of Kabul, the capital city of Afghanistan, are no place for children. But still, between frequent car bombings and the ever-present hum of military helicopters overhead, the youth of Kabul flock to the city center, often forced to work long days alongside their elders to make ends meet. But…

A wooden boat that carried 80 refugees during their flight from Libya to Europe can be seen at the exhibition at the state museum in Hanover, Germany, 6 April 2017. Peter Steffen/Press Association. All rights reserved.Migrant smuggling has emerged as one of the most profitable and widespread criminal activities for organised crime in the EU….

Click:Flexographic Printing Machine For Sale It’s been a rough week for Uber CEO Travis Kalanick. The company, long seen as the ruthless corporate foil to the more egalitarian Lyft, faced public condemnations over the weekend that may have a lasting impact on his company. As taxi drivers at New York’s JFK airport struck to protest Donald…

A view from Hoboken You are a young man in your late 20s who grew up in Hoboken, in the "garden state" of New Jersey just across the Hudson River from Manhattan. Your family was blue-collar Italian and staunch Republican, and in the fall of 2001 you had graduated from high school and were planning…

As the founder and CEO of both Samasource, a nonprofit that connects very low-income people to work through the web, and LXMI, a social impact luxury brand, Leila Janah knows a thing or two about empowerment. For Janah, global poverty has only one real solution: jobs that earn people both money and dignity. Listen to more…

Aleppo has been weighing on the hearts of the entire world after the outpour of bone-chilling messages on social media by citizens, journalists, and activists still in the city, many claiming to be saying their goodbyes. In the wake of these desperate dispatches, a Facebook fundraiser started by Basel Termanini has asked for $1.5 million to “help the medical…

Tunisian police investigate Bardo museum attack. Demoted/Chedly ben Ibrahim. All rights reserved.The jihadi attack at the museum of Bardo on March 18 marks a new stage in the developing turmoil in the MENA region. In particular, concerns have been expressed on the evolving impact of Islamic State through the region up to the southern shore…