International Development:

1) Foreign Policy: Five Population Trends to Watch.

2) The Ecologist: Behind the Eco Labels.

3) Guardian: Can science really save the world?

4) San Francisco Bay Guardian: Bjørn Lomborg tells climate-change worrywarts to chillax in Cool It.

5) AlterNet: The authors of the new book Break Through argue that scaring people with bad news about the environment is no way to get them to change – what’s needed is a dream we all want to be a part of.

Politics & Economics:

6) Commentary Magazine: The Past, Present and Future of Neoconservatism.

7) Inside Higher Ed: Who You Calling Heterodox?

Progressive Christianity:

8) digital.leadnet.org: Reaching the Post-Congregational Christian.

9) Christianity Today: Why I am not a Red-Letter Christian.

Others:

10) A very inspiring video: Thriller.

International Development:

1) Foreign Policy: Why Climate Change Can’t Be Stopped.

2) Asia Sentinel: Slum tourism is a way for travelers to taste the exotica of squalor.

3) BusinessWeek: How basic cell phones are sparking economic hope and growth in emerging – and even non-emerging – nations.

4) Campus Progress: The Top 100 Effects of Global Warming.

5) Wired: Two Environmentalists Anger Their Brethren.

Politics & Economics:

6) Prospect: In search of British values (Part One, Part Two)

7) Reset: The dilemma of the liberal State.

Progressive Christianity:

8) Books & Culture: Theology from a prog rock band.

9) Times Online: Ever heard the one about Jesus and the good news?

Others:

10) Tikkun: Neuroscience and Fundamentalism.

International Development:

1) How to Change the World: Social Entrepreneurship: Ten Questions with David Bornstein.

2) Foreign Affairs: Smart Samaritans.

3) Joseph Stiglitz on The Malaysian Miracle.

4) The New York Times: One Answer to Global Warming: A New Tax.

5) The Toronto Star: An increasing number of Canadian activists are blending tourism with aggressive advocacy abroad.

Politics & Economics:

6) The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations: Rethinking “Nation-Building”: The Contradictions of the Neo-Wilsonian Approach to Democracy Promotion.

7) Znet: Do Capitalists fund revolutions? (Part One, Two)

Progressive Christianity:

8) Christianity Today: Listening for the Whisper – how to break the addiction to spectacle.

9) Christianity Today: ‘I Thirst’: What was going on with Mother Teresa?

Others:

10) Guardian: Why academic writing is so boring?

International Development:

1) TED: Let’s take a new look at Africa aid.

2) Newsweek: How to fix the World Bank.

3) YaleGlobal: Globalization was good then, not now.

4) The New Republic: A Manifesto for a New Environmentalism.

5) Grist: The power of voluntary actions.

Politics & Economics:

6) The New Republic: Democrats should embrace the philosophy of Liberalism.

7) New Left Review: Whatever happened to the anti-war movement?

Progressive Christianity:

8) Christianity Today: World Vision India head Jayakumar Christian on how the poor become movers and shakers, and movers and shakers become poor.

9) Christianity Today: The Amish response to the Nickel Mines shootings wasn’t just plain Christianity.

Others:

10) Smithsonian: Peaceful and prosperous, Southeast Asia’s famously uptight nation – Singapore – has let its hair down.

International Development:

1) Stanford Social Innovation Review: Real social change happens when organizations go outside their own walls and find creative ways to enlist the help of others.

2) Science News: A country’s competitive edge can spread industry to industry, like a disease.

3) Grist: Voluntary actions didn’t get us civil rights, and they won’t fix the climate. Also: why, on your own, you’ll never do enough to save the planet.

4) Wired: Eco-capitalists save Mother Nature by charging for her services.

5) The Age: Call of the mild.

Politics & Economics:

6) The New Republic: What Dostoevsky can tell us about Iraq: Hubris vs. Humility.

7) The Economist: In search of the good company.

Progressive Christianity:

8) The Baylor Lariat: Calvinist view of bridge collapse distorts God’s character.

9) Christianity Today: An Older, Wiser Ex-Gay Movement. Also: The Best Research Yet.

Others:

10) News Weekly: Postmodern science – a contradiction in terms.

International Development:

1) Joseph O’Keefe on Aid – From Consensus to Competition?

2) Jaiswal Anand Kumar on Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid: An Alternative Perspective.

3) The Weak Link Theory of Economic Development.

4) InfoChange: Globalisation and liberalisation: Fuzzy boundary.

5) The Economist: On Ha-Joon Chang and the Infant Industry case for Protectionism.

Politics & Economics:

6) Jewcy: Mutiny on the Euston Manifesto.

7) Guardian: Can a caring society exist in a market economy?

Progressive Christianity:

8) Mother Jones: Hillary Clinton’s Religion and Politics.

9) Jewcy: Why we should all be more like the Amish.

Others:

10) Orion Magazine: Education can ameliorate, or exacerbate, society’s ills.

International Development:

1) Harvard Business Review: Beware of Bad Microcredit.

2) The Wall Street Journal: A farewell to Alms. See a response to Arvind Subramanian’s article here at the Centre for Global Development’s (CGD) blog.

3) Reuters AlertNet: Are gap-year do-gooders wasting their time?

4) Dissent: Globalization’s Mad Scientist: On Joseph Stiglitz.

5) Francis Fukuyama on how big business will pacify the clash of cultures.

Politics & Economics:

6) AlterNet: There Is No Political Center, There Are No Centrists.

7) The Guardian: How the neoliberals stitched up the wealth of nations for themselves.

Progressive Christianity:

8) Into the Wild‘s top 15 spiritually enriching U2 songs.

9) Time has an excellent article on Mother Teresa’s Crisis of Faith. Also, Scriptorium Daily has a good post on Why was Mother Teresa sad?

Others:

10) Axess: A return to positivism is the only serious way of coming to grips with the major issues of our times.

International Development:

1) The Economist on Latin America’s economies, Latin America’s middle class and Chile: Destitute no more.

2) Newsweek: Cornflake makers and socialists alike are pointing to green fuel for high food prices. Are they right?

3) Harvard International Review: Why AIDS is Not Threatening African Governance.

4) The Situationist: The Situation of Ethical Consumption.

5) The Economist: The poor world is getting the rich world’s diseases.

Politics & Economics:

6) The Washington Post: Barack Obama needed more than talent and ambition to rocket from obscure state senator to presidential contender in three years. He needed serious luck.

7) The Economist: Is America turning left? and The American right.

Progressive Christianity:

8) Christianity Today: It’s emptiness, not fullness, that Jesus blesses and Sometimes the most loving prayers are not all that nice.

9) The Toronto Star: Is the Christian right withering?

Others:

10) Adbusters: São Paulo: A City Without Ads. More pictures of São Paulo here.

International Development:

1) BusinessWeek: Stuart Hart, founder of “base of the pyramid” economics, talks about terrorism, poverty and the next big corporations. See also how “base of the pyramid” economic development theory classes are proliferating at business schools around the world.

2) Economic Affairs: Entrepreneurial Responses to Poverty and Social Conflict: The Enterprise Africa! Project, Markets, Institutions and the Millennium Development Goals and Half a Cheer for Fair Trade.

3) Newsweek: Global Warming Deniers: A Well-Funded Machine.

4) Radar: Why Eco-Hypocrisy Matters.

5) The Economist: Laboring in Chinafrica.

Politics & Economics:

6) The Washington Post: Barack Obama needed more than talent and ambition to rocket from obscure state senator to presidential contender in three years. He needed serious luck.

7) Freakonomics: The Economics of Street Charity.

Progressive Christianity:

8) Christianity Today: In wake of abductions, Korean Christians take heavy criticism.

9) Opinion Journal: Evangelicals worry about the behavior of their brethren.

Others:

10) Scientific American: Is Greed Good? & The New Psychology of Leadership.

International Development:

1) Bunker Roy on how the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) actually increase rural dependence on knowledge and skills from urban areas – at the expense of community empowerment.

2) Two articles on YaleGlobal Online about the need to recognize that there are losers in the globalization process.

3) The Economist on the UN Global Compact and how it draws corporations into the development process.

4) The American Prospect‘s review of Paul Collier’s The Bottom Billion.

5) The Economist: In praise of usury.

Politics & Economics:

6) Michael Ignatieff on Getting Iraq Wrong. A response to Ignatieff’s confession here.

7) Foreign Policy: The Olympic Games are inherently political – and it’s time we admit it.

Progressive Christianity:

8) Christianity Today: True Christian mission addresses issues of power and poverty.

9) Christianity Today: Christians have better and harder things to do than transforming the world.

Others:

10) Axess: Contrarianism has a proud intellectual heritage, but in its postmodern flowering it merely became juvenile, complacently smashing up the entire interlocking crossword puzzle of human knowledge.