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Another contrast to 1989 is the fact that the Party's leadership is solidly united about how this crisis needs to be tackled so as to best preserve its authority. Internal disputes about how to handle the Tiananmen protest allowed them to drag on for months and swell in size...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will the Financial Crisis Bring Upheaval to China? | 12/25/2008 | See Source »

Still, most southerners champion their region's low-tax, non-union style of economic development, which they credit for luring overseas car companies like BMW and Kia to build major plants from Kentucky to South Carolina to Texas. More important, after spending the 20th century as America's industrial backwater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Detroit's Fall Gives Power to Rival Dixie | 12/22/2008 | See Source »

The EPA is now devising a "life-cycle" test designed to measure whether various biofuels really reduce overall carbon emissions from the field to the tank; the farm lobby is already pushing for a weak test, because a strict one could halt the biofuel revolution. The position Vilsack's department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vilsack: Some Hard Choices on Ethanol | 12/18/2008 | See Source »

No one, not Saudi Princes or Skull and Bones or the Daughters of the American Revolution, ranks as the most traditional among us; that distinction belongs to our kids, who if they organized into a guild or a club or a denomination would have more cherished rituals than the Mormon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Listen to the Kids | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

The document has reignited a debate that has recently bubbled through the commentary pages of Chinese newspapers over the nature of "universal values." Opinion writers have argued whether pluralism is a western creation with limited application to China, or a political ideal for all nations. Columnist Sima Nan wrote on...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing Clamps Down After Call for Democracy | 12/17/2008 | See Source »

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