Op-Ed

(Photo: Brett Beanan / Flickr) The Plan is working. Mitt Romney's biggest backer didn't want him to win. We know that Paul “The Vulture” Singer, Romney's Daddy …

A new historical vista is opening before us in this time of change. Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid for political establishment. Neither …

Economist Christina Romer had an op-ed in the NY Times this weekend, Do Manufacturers Need Special Treatment? The question that keep coming back to me is why did she …

President Barack Obama delivers his State of the Union address to Congress on January 24 in Washington. (Photo: Brendan Hoffman / The New York Times) The criterion, …

Washington - What do Rick Santorum and Clint Eastwood have in common? Sorry Rick, you haven't made it yet as an Eastwood-style make-my-day cultural icon. But in different ways, …

Abu Dhabi, UAE - I've just finished teaching a three week January term course at New York University's Abu Dhabi campus (NYUAD). I've had the great fortune to teach …

It has been said there is no high ground in American politics since any politician who claims it is likely to be gunned down by those firing from the …

Early last year, during an intimate chat and chew dinner with some Silicon Valley high-tech barons, President Barack Obama posed a question to Steve Jobs, baron of the Apple …

(Image: CartoonArts International / The New York Times Syndicate) George Washington was a hypocrite. O.K., that’s not what I believe. But it’s apparently what Senator …

January’s increase in hiring is good news, but it masks a bigger and more disturbing story – the continuing downward mobility of the American middle class. Most of the …