Davos 2010: The world is broken

As a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, I’ve been attending the annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland for a dozen years. But I’ve never anticipated the event more than this year (Jan. 27-31). The theme is to “Improve the State of the World: Rethink, Redesign and...

Obama's youthful volunteers still keen to help

A new Harvard poll finds that a majority of 18-29 year-olds disapprove of President Barack Obama’s handling of major issues, but nevertheless most of them (58%) approve of the president’s job performance generally, and many intend to help get him re-elected. The poll...