Aspen Journal of Ideas

While we are waiting for the TPP to be officially released for public viewing, I wanted to take a look at how small women-owned businesses will fare under the agreement, and how their success will factor into two Sustainable Development Goals.

The American workforce started out as the goose that laid the golden egg for American business, but now it is suffering a death of 1,000 cuts.

Just a year ago, the women were subsistence farmers, earning little profit on their rows of maize. Today, the contract gives them access to a secure market and a steady income.

Simple yet innovative, run by the state and available for the citizen to move from job-to-job, California’s Secure Choice Retirement Savings plan could be the solution to creating lasting savings for the gig economy era.

Recent events in cities such as Ferguson, Baltimore and New York have led to calls for a new national dialogue about race, class, criminal justice and opportunity

I was a young medical officer working at the Emergency Unit of the Ola During Children’s Hospital in Sierra Leone when I advised the mother of a child with severe malaria to tell a blatant lie.

The United States, Europe and the other nations of the world must be resolute in upholding our own standards and values and find a way to help Syrians move in the direction of the stability they need and the freedom they deserve.

A new Department of Education measure of student outcomes at our nation’s colleges and universities is seen as a threat by some institutions. But they should see it as an opportunity to improve and innovate what they offer to future students.

Instead of trying to make the new economy look more like the old, Washington should encourage the innovative new internet-driven business models unfolding around the world to create more opportunities and upward economic mobility for everybody.

Ignoring the rising tide of refugees and the deepening conflict in Syria won’t make it go away. It will only give the international community fewer options that are harder to implement, while more lives are threatened and lost.