Who Needs a “G-2”? Here Comes the S&ED

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Tomorrow, senior government officials from the U.S. and China will meet in Washington for the inaugural Strategic and Economic Dialogue, a.k.a. the S&ED, which is the successor to the Bush Administration’s Strategic Economic Dialogue – or SED.
The meeting, at which top level delegations from the world’s two most powerful nations get down to business and discuss some of the world’s most pressing issues side by side – or at least across the same table, represents far more than a shift in punctuation. It is a test of whether the Obama Administration can present a unified front and demonstrate that it is serious about working together to improve and expand the U.S.’s relationship with China.

Nesting in Izukogen

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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.

What are Your Thoughts on Executive Compensation?

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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…

Important Investment: Support Judd Legum in Annapolis

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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.

The Other Track

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I’ve been pouring through the archives at King’s College, London, preparing for several interviews that I have coming down the pike.