US Elections: Grand Plans versus Reality
WASHINGTON – America is in a deep funk. We have this unprecedented financial crisis whose dimensions, potential reach and...
Category: Security
April 4 is NATO’s Birthday The Europeans do very little for the common defense. Is there still a role for the Atlantic Alliance created in 1949?
By Paolo von Schirach April 3, 2008 WASHINGTON – Tomorrow is April 4, another birthday for the North Atlantic Treaty...
Europe and World Threats
WASHINGTON – “We must not –we cannot—become a two-tiered alliance of those willing to fight and those who are...
America Longing for Moses
WASHINGTON – Whatever the eventual outcome of the democratic party primaries, we have a Barack Obama phenomenon that is...
Not Serious About Energy Independence
WASHINGTON – “The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long...
The Accumulation of Human Capital Is An Art – It Requires Special Care In Nurturing Talent – The Importance Of Innovation Friendly Eco-Systems
By Paolo von Schirach December 1, 2007 WASHINGTON – “A free market in brainpower”. This is what Fortune magazine...
“The Decline of America” Revisited
WASHINGTON – Remember Yale historian Paul Kennedy and his 1987 tome on “The Rise and Fall of the Great...
A Sound US Plan for Immigration
WASHINGTON – The immigration issue has not been dealt with via comprehensive legislation, as it was hoped for during...
Modern Cost Effective Public Policy for America
By Paolo von Schirach September 28, 2007 WASHINGTON – I was really hoping that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich would...
The swamp was not drained
by Paolo von Schirach August 14, 2007 WASHINGTON – Early on, at the beginning of the campaign against al...