With oil now below $45 a barrel, and Merrill Lynch projecting that it’ll drop to $25 in the next year, I think it’s worth glancing around at those economies that’ll be ravaged if these trend lines continue.
(photo credit: Lou Linwei for The New York Times) The U.S. government is about to kick $15 billion over to the U.S. auto industry.
The New York Times offered a strong critique of one of George W. Bush’s exit interviews — and Bush National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley has just issued his protestations. The Times offered this powerful punch: It was skin crawling to hear him tell Mr.
What else can be said about Sean Penn other than that he is an unbelievably extraordinarily gifted actor with a sense of self and social conscience matched by very few in Hollywood.
This has been a good year for policy books — particularly ones that I think have moved the policy needle in better directions than they have been going. The Washington Post has just published its roster of “Best Books of 2008.
It is painfully clear that we are not “winning” in Afghanistan, and that we need a new strategy. While President-elect Obama has carefully calibrated and qualified his “timetable” strategy for Iraq, he has unequivocally promised to send more troops and more resources to fight the “good war” in Afghanistan.
I recently hosted Helene Cooper for a discussion about her best-selling book, The House at Sugar Beach: In Search of A Lost African Childhood.
Tevi Troy‘s business card reads “The Deputy Secretary of Health and Human Services.” That’s right. He’s not one of five deputies. He’s the second highest ranking guy in the Department.
I think you’ll enjoy this five minute chat with Barton Gellman, author of the best-selling Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, a book which I think makes a great holiday gift. A video of an event discussion I held with New America Foundation president Steve Coll and Bart Gellman is available here.