By Steve Cohen 6/23/09 8:49pm

The Impact of Technology on Political Communication

Watching the mass impulse toward democracy in Iran over the past week has been alternately inspiring and terrifying. The power and clumsiness of the state never fails to scare me and the courage and intensity of the public in the street continues to inspire.  Something is different about political participation in these early years of Read More

By Bruce Feirstein 11/13/06 12:00am

Bargaining in Beijing: Zing Went My Strings-Boy, China Is Big!

BEIJING—I’m standing on the third floor of a multi-story shopping center not far from Tiananmen Square known as the Silk Market. It’s sort of like a horizontal version of Canal Street, although this hardly does it justice: There are literally hundreds of stalls spread out over six stories, selling everything from real Chinese silks to Read More