| Analysis: An Agenda for Egypt’s Next President |
| All eyes are on Egypt this week as the democratic birth-pangs that began with last year’s Tahrir Revolution seem to be undergoing their final convulsions. Two days of voting May 23 and 24 mark the main event – the heavily anticipated presidential election, the first after the ouster last of long-time president Hosni Mubarak. With this week’s round of votes and a presumed run-off next month, the ... |
| 05/23/2012 |
| Bo Downfall Shows Crony Communism Widening Rich-Poor Gap |
| Behind the crimson walls of the former imperial compound that is Beijing’s equivalent of the White House, Communist Party leaders cranked China’s decades-old propaganda machine into overdrive. Tapping a system used to quell public dissent since Mao Zedong’s anointed heir was accused of treason in 1971, apparatchiks distributed internal documents to bring more than 80 million party members into ... |
| 05/02/2012 |
| Doughnut development in big urban areas is waning |
| Consider the doughnut. You may think it's a tasty treat, but for urbanists, the popular baked good has served as a metaphor for the American city — a fat, sweet ring of rich suburbs encircling an almost empty inner core. Go to St. Louis or Houston or Charleston, and you find humming businesses, shopping centers and brand-new housing — 20 miles out. Meanwhile, acres of downtown lie fallow ... |
| 05/14/2012 |
| Las Vegas wants some respect |
| LAS VEGAS -- The boys sat there swilling coffee and bemoaning a depressing reality: What happens in this town doesn't necessarily stay here -- thanks, they say, to the national media spreading scuttlebutt. The gossip doesn't involve a tawdry tryst in a hotel room off the Strip. These days, the diciest Sin City escapade is just trying to scratch out a living here, claim the news reports. read more |
| 04/29/2012 |
| David Brooks, “structuralist” |
| David Brooks is everything wrong with elite opinion in America. The president reads him and takes him seriously. That is why the opinions of venal faux "reasonable" clowns like Brooks matter. Brooks today sums up the new argument for not actually doing anything to alleviate worldwide unnecessary hardship: The problem is "structural," not "cyclical"! Long op-ed short, Brooks says "cyclicalists ... |
| 05/08/2012 |
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