The world got side-tracked from development issues during the post-9/11 crisis period.

The defining challenge of the 21st century will be to face the reality that humanity shares a common fate on a crowded planet.

Russia has gone through eight years of continuing economic pain.

America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

Deep down, if we really accept that their lives - African lives - are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out. Its an uncomfortable truth.

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.

It's not so unusual to run out of someone else's currency.