By Robert McHenry
Cool was once associated with reticence, savoir-faire, and irony, none of which is much practiced or regarded these days.
In 1965 the two nations were equal in wealth. Four decades later, their standing was dramatically different. What ...
Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tel Aviv—the global hubs of entrepreneurial activity all bear the marks of government investment. Yet, for every successful public intervention spurring ...
What happens when populist politicians try to micromanage public utilities?
What happens when populist politicians try to micromanage public utilities? Venezuelans found out recently when President Hugo Chavez unveiled his blueprint for dealing with water and electricity ...
At the upcoming state visit, the challenge for President Obama is to make sure that the United States works closely ...
It is a testament to how far the U.S.-India relationship has come that Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be the first foreign leader granted an official state visit to the Obama White House. Amid ...
The correlation between religious and moral values and voting behavior did not operate a generation ago.
It is commonly understood, I think, that American women are having their first babies later in life than they used to. Over a long generation, the change has been even more striking than I would have ...
As the Obama administration formulates policies for Asia, it should make a trans-Pacific vision for regional ...
Almost two decades ago, then-Secretary of State James Baker stated that the United States wanted to avoid any policy that “would draw a line down the middle of the Pacific and threaten to ...
Government-based overhaul has completely monopolized the debate on healthcare. Here are seven examples of successful ...
Government healthcare reform sure gets a lot of media attention. In just the last month alone there have been about 13,000 new stories containing the word “government” and the phrase ...
There is a strong relationship between economic prosperity and religious liberty.
Several years ago a group of Arab intellectuals came together to study the economic malaise—fueled by high unemployment, massive illiteracy, and anemic GDPs—that grips much of the Muslim ...
One reason unemployment continues to rise may be that stimulus funds did not target high-unemployment states.
On Friday, the Labor Department announced that the national unemployment rate rose by 0.4 percentage points to 10.2 percent. This increase is larger than expected for October and represents the ...
The occasion of remembering the fall of the Wall is a fitting time to recall the broader sweep of events that ...
The fall of the Berlin Wall on this day 20 years ago was the most spectacular moment of the end of the Cold War, but in fact only represented the midpoint in the “last sad chapter” of ...
The complexity of today's economy means that old-fashioned Keynesian policies will not restore full employment.
We are currently hearing a lot about Keynesian economics. A number of economists and pundits suggest that his theories, developed in the 1930s, provide us with the best guide to economic policy ...
Though the balance of opinion on Sarah Palin is negative, she may have room to move opinions over time.