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September 17, 2008

Heads of State and Government
Counselor: A Life at the Edge of History

Watch Theodore C. Sorensen, speechwriter for President John F. Kennedy, discuss his recent autobiography.

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March 9, 2022

Infrastructure
Resilient and Sustainable Infrastructure

Heidi Crebo-Rediker, adjunct senior fellow at CFR, leads a conversation with Stephen E. Flynn, founding director of the Global Resilience Institute at Northeastern University, on the bipartisan Infra…

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April 10, 2007

China
You know, the weak RMB just might have something to do with the emergence of China’s big trade surplus …

The conventional wisdom among financial journalists seems to be that exchange rates don’t matter.   At least when it comes to China.     Lex – in an otherwise good column on China’s March trade data …

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December 15, 2006

China
Ben Bernanke (almost) speaks truth to (real) financial power …

Bernanke’s speech at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences is well worth reading.  He quite accurately notes – at least in the written text, if not in the actual speech – that China’s extensive inte…

June 24, 2011

Defense and Security
Friday File: Afghanistan and Argument by Epithet

President Barack Obama speaks to soldiers from the tenth Mountain Division during his visit to Fort Drum in New York on June 23, 2011. Above the Fold. The reactions this week by proponents of the Af…

President Barack Obama speaks to soldiers from the U.S. 10th Mountain Division during his visit to Fort Drum in New York on June 23, 2011.