Aspen Journal of Ideas

If the global creative economy were a country, it would equal the fourth-largest economy — and workforce — on the planet. The Alliance for Artisan Enterprise is breaking down barriers to for these small-scale artisans all across the developing world.

If EU policymakers can’t find a way to agree on a strategy for the wave of refugees fleeing war, persecution and economic calamity, the very idea of the Schengen agreement — free movement across Europe — will fray and the freedom it represents will fragment.

Advances in neuroscience are revolutionizing our approach to education, particularly for the way we teach math. They challenge our basic assumptions about the subject, some of which have discouraged a lot of students from sticking with it.

Five years on, cholera has killed nearly 9,000 Haitians. More than 730,000 people have been infected. It is the worst outbreak of the disease, globally, in modern history.

Around the world, the corporate governance landscape is shifting, as efforts to improve business practices gain support and momentum. The wave of reform has become visible everywhere, and, fueled by three developments, it is sure to continue to rise.

Enacted nearly four decades ago, the Indian Child Welfare Act went a long way to prevent the unnecessary breakup of Native families. Now is not the time to roll back the law’s protections.

As a critical building block of our economy — and its recovery from the great recession — small businesses must be protected from predatory lending and other practices which could cripple growth and slow the building of American wealth.

As I leave my beloved home of South Carolina for the first time this summer, I cannot help but reflect back on the intense few weeks many of us have lived through in our state.

If we want Native youth to survive and thrive, we should invest in tribal colleges and universities. They teach their students and communities to honor the past, live well in the present, and lead their people toward a better future.

In the shadow of the Ebola crisis, assembling a coalition of health experts from government, NGOs, foundations, banks and academia to work on the hardest problem facing global health: delivering care to the rural poor.