It is the land of Plato and Aristotle, home to the Acropolis and Parthenon, the birthplace of the ancient Olympics and the place from which the Olympics were re-born for the modern age over a century ago. It is Greece and, in its efforts to solve its budget crisis, it may offer a window into …
They live on the other side of the world, imprisoned in a nation whose leaders fear progress and prevent modernity. Isolated from all others, brainwashed to believe that their country is the best on Earth, they live in horrific conditions – with little electricity and running water; with malnourishment producing a generation of stunted growth, …
It was October, 1937, and President Roosevelt was trying to convince Americans to focus on the frightening events in Europe and Asia, to understand that the United States could not wall itself off from the world and to recognize that the march of totalitarianism abroad was a mounting threat at home. The nation, however, was …
Senator Evan Bayh’s surprise announcement that he won’t seek re-election has generated another bout of Washington’s current ailment – whining about a broken Senate, a paralyzed political system and huge unaddressed problems. “We’ve got a lot of good people in Congress, but they’re trapped in a dysfunctional system,” Bayh, the Indiana Democrat, said in explaining …
With Washington paralyzed by snow and its chattering class focused on President Obama’s changing fortunes, the next phase of a far more monumental story for both the United States and the world will play out this week in the Middle East. Iran’s regime and the opposition Green Movement are bracing for what could prove a …
For Washington, it is, with apologies to Dickens, “the best of times” and “the worst of times.” It is a time of growing power at home but of shrinking influence abroad. They are two sides of the same coin, for they both reflect the economic and fiscal challenges that stand before our nation’s leaders. At …
I speak to you tonight from the Oval Office, from which earlier presidents have come to you in times of crisis. We, too, are facing a crisis. To put it simply, we are living on borrowed time and borrowed money. Here in Washington, we are spending far more than we are raising in revenues each …
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