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Until about the 1990s, U.S. government-funded international broadcasting was transmitted via short-wave radio to target audiences in countries whose governments provided biased or otherwise deficient news service. But satellite television and the Internet have largely displaced shortwave as the preferred means to send information across national boundaries. The Broadcasting Board of Governors should move to consolidate U.S.-government funded international broadcasting into one multimedia organization. Adapted from the source document.

In the summer of 2010, two revelations, of unequal importance and magnitude, illuminated the American-Pakistani relationship and its complications: a public opinion survey released by the Pew Research Center, on July 29, that delved into the attitudes of the Pakistani public on a wide range of issues (their opinion of the United States, their view of the war next door in Afghanistan, their attitude toward extremist groups, their outlook on the prospects of their country). The bigger story was the unprecedented document-dump by Wikileaks of 92,000 reports and documents on the U.S. military effort in Afghanistan spanning two administrations, from January 2004 through December 2009. The role of Pakistan, and its powerful Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (the ISI), was in the eye of that storm. Adapted from the source document.

Thanks to the draining effects of the Iraq war and the financial meltdown emanating from Wall Street, a powershift away from American dominance is taking place. Caught between a rising China and an America in relative decline, the new leadership in Japan is recalibrating its post‐World War II relationships. The G‐20 has usurped the role once played by the G‐8 as the governing committee of globalization. And the symbiotic coupling of "Chimerica", born out of the credit bubble built up over the past two decades, is being put to the test.In this section, the new prime minister of Japan, the president of the European Union, the president of Brazil and a leading economic historian assess these shifts.