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November 25, 2019

Election 2020
Meet Deval Patrick, Democratic Presidential Candidate

Update: Deval Patrick announced on February 12, 2020, that he was ending his campaign for president. Deval Patrick is testing the accuracy of the old saying, “Better late than never.” Last Decembe…

Deval Patrick

July 10, 2012

Trade
The Washington Post and Outsourcing: Two Wrongs Don't Make a Right

Outsourcing is a big problem. That’s about the only thing The Washington Post got right in its front page story this morning, “Obama struggles to make headway on outsourcing,” that sadly does much to…

Workers are pictured beneath clocks displaying time zones at an outsourcing center in Bangalore (Vivek Prakash/Courtesy Reuters).

October 2, 2012

Trade
The Changing Politics of Chinese Trade and Investment

On the same day last week that President Obama was issuing an order blocking a Chinese company from acquiring several Oregon wind farms, the Financial Times had a fascinating story on the changing po…

Then-presidential nominee Senator Barack Obama waves to the crowd after speaking at a campaign rally at Ault Park in Cincinnati, Ohio in October 2008 (Jim Young/Courtesy Reuters).

September 25, 2012

Defense and Security
Obama Speaks to the UN General Assembly

CFR.org just posted a First Take that I did on President Obama’s speech to the UN General Assembly this morning.  The speech was fairly predictable, and it was undoubtedly aimed as much at American v…

President Barack Obama addresses the 67th United Nations General Assembly. (Shannon Stapleton/ courtesy Reuters)

September 25, 2012

International Organizations
Obama’s Message to the Muslim World at the UN

From the podium at the opening session of the 67th UN General Assembly, President Barack Obama  defended freedom of speech as a human right that must not be infringed and expressed confidence that “t…

U.S. President Obama addresses 67th United Nations General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters in New York