Two quick media alerts for this morning. At 11 am EST, I will be chatting with WNYC’s policy sophisticate Brian Lehrer about Hillary Clinton’s foreign policy initiatives and positions. You can listen live through the web if you like.
Leo Hindery and CNN Washington DC Bureau Chief David Bohrman at New America Foundation Dinner; photo credit; Sam Sherraden Matt Stoller from Representative Alan Grayson‘s (D-FL-08) office put out a public request for comments about executive compensation related legislation that Congress will soon be considering.
Two months ago, I spent some time in Japan and visited a terrific ryokan in Izu, Japan. A number of us went on the trip, but a couple there who were camera fanatics just sent news this week to me that they eloped and got married in Japan.
Matt Stoller, policy adviser to Representative Alan Grayson (D-FL-8), who is great on just about everything except the Middle East and Cuba — which I hope to nudge him on a bit one of these days — just sent me this request: Next week, the Financial Services Committee is going to be marking up a…
This is a political pitch video with Center for American Progress President and former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta introducing Judd Legum at a fundraiser at a cool restaurant-bar, Local 16, just around the corner from my house. Unfortunately, I was in Berlin and couldn’t be there.
I am off to Athens, Greece this evening to meet with some folks and to ponder what Socrates, Plato and Thucydides would say about Barack Obama’s coming showdown with Bibi Netanyahu over East Jerusalem. Netanyahu is very clearly Obama’s Khrushchev.
(Dordogne where Martin Walker is avoiding Joe Biden and where Bruno, Chief of Police is set; photo credit: Don Frood) My recent vacation mates in Italy — including Helene Cooper who covers the White House for the New York Times and Elise Labott who covers Hillary Clinton and the State Department for CNN — would…
Landrum Bolling, former President of the Lilly Endowment and Earlham College, has put together a collage of commentary from four outstanding American foreign policy giants. They are former President Jimmy Carter; former Secretary of State and Treasury James A. Baker; former National Security Adviser to Presidents Ford and George H.W.
This is a guest post by a colleague and TWN regular Richard Vague Handling the Economic Crisis – A Report Card If we really want to have enduring, muscular economic growth, then where’s the enhanced support for the truly cutting edge things that will make that happen? Repatriating telemarketing jobs from the Philippines and textile…
Here is a brilliant take by James Pinkerton in a special Politico online forum on the failings of the Obama administration so far when it comes to turning this economy around: Obviously the “stimulus” was a a dud–and the rate that things are going, the next “stimulus,” too, will be a dud.
