Is America Ready for President Obama?
WASHINGTON – The Democratic primaries arithmetic is clearly against Senator Hillary Clinton. It is unlikely that she will win her...
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America’s Decaying Standards
WASHINGTON – In the United States, the reliability of some critical public services is now questioned, owing to revelations...
April 4 is NATO’s Birthday
By Paolo von Schirach April 3, 2008 WASHINGTON – Tomorrow is April 4, another birthday for the North Atlantic Treaty...
America the Christian
WASHINGTON – As the political season heats up in the United States, we are treated to yet another round...
Asia Rises, America Distracted
WASHINGTON – Five years into the invasion of Iraq, defined by its proponents as an essential component of the...
In America, Politics as Self-Renewal
WASHINGTON – The paradox of American politics is this odd mixture between pragmatism and grandiose wishful thinking. Hillary Clinton...
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...
Economic Development Requires a State of Mind
WASHINGTON – Let’s start with a basic notion: economic development is a new phenomenon in human history. This makes...
Not Serious About Energy Independence
WASHINGTON – “The Stone Age did not end for lack of stone, and the Oil Age will end long...