Vol. 141 No. 7-8, December 2008
Index
- America & the world: challenges for the new president.
- America & the world: challenges for the new president: a guide from the foreign policy association.
- Cartoons.
- Connecting high school students with the world.
- Cartoon analysis.
- Game show.
- Immigration's changing face.
- Photo analysis.
- While the economic crisis may be at the top of President-elect Obama's agenda in January, he'll also face a number of critical challenges.
- American & Russian astronauts.
- Beyond French fries.
- Chocolate power.
- Greener clubbing.
- On newstands not near you.
- 'Defector girl boxer': why she's a champ.
- Numbers in the news.
- Songs of love, longing ... and sanitation.
- Mexico & the U.S.: what kind of border? A new fence to deter illegal crossings from Mexico symbolizes the intense debate in the U.S. over immigration.
- Why aunt Pashe became an uncle: by tradition, when a family in Albania lost all its men, a woman could swap gender roles and become the family patriarch. Now, however, the custom is fading.
- The rise of the rest: the financial crisis aside, China, India, Brazil, and much of the developing world is booming. It seems scary, but writer Fareed Zakaria thinks it's actually good news for the U.S.
- Should the U.S. lift its embargo on Cuba? President-elect Obama has said he will consider relaxing the embargo, which has been in place since 1962.
- World affairs annual 2009.
- Snapshots 2008.
- Views from around the world: cartoonists in a dozen countries on the election of Barack Obama.