Juan Cole is such a refreshing, extraordinary force attempting to drag Americans toward a more enlightened and constructive understanding of the Muslim world. I had the privilege this week of hosting Cole for a discussion of his just released book, Engaging the Muslim World.
Yesterday afternoon, I had the pleasure of hosting Advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas and Palestine Minister for Economic Development Mohammad Shtayyeh in my office to discuss the status of Palestinian Government unity government talks between Fatah and Hamas.
I’m not a protectionist type — but I do believe in smart industrial policy, national commitments to infrastructure, and the promotion of the American jobs base when tax dollars are involved – particularly during the greatest financial meltdown in generations. And yet, U.S.
I will be participating in a discussion today on Warren Olney’s excellent “To The Point” that runs on the National Public Radio network all over the country at various times. Other guests on the show will be David Sirota, Congressman Brad Sherman, and David Rothkopf.
Regrettably, the Obama administration seems to be fumbling the ball on an economic policy course that restores confidence in the American economy on both the optics level and also on a substantive front that reorganizes the “social contract” and design of the real economy in the U.S.
This is a guest post by New America Foundation/Economic Growth Program policy director Michael Lind. Lind recently authored for Salon, “Obama’s Timid Liberalism“. Infrastructure investment and other themes related to the question, “What Will Replace the American Consumer?” will be discussed at the 1st Bernard L.
On CNN’s State of the Union show, John King just missed the key zinger statement made by Council of Economic Advisers Chair Christina Romer.
I really wish I had been invited to the annual Gridiron Dinner — but wasn’t.
The C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience at Washington College, of which I’m a board member, and the National Portrait Gallery are sponsoring an afternoon discussion today with filmmaker John Waters. Waters will reflect on Cy Twombly’s “Letter of Resignation.
The Washington Times’ omnipresent Potus Notes political and foreign policy blogger Jon Ward did a very nice write-up of some parts of a “blogger breakfast session” that I hosted this morning with Mark Schmitt, editor of The American Prospect.
