The Saudi Arabia of Food

It’s not easy to find any silver lining in the dark cloud of spiraling food costs and hunger that hangs over the world’s poor. But there is some good news for Americans in the global food crisis.

The United States may have been a significant part of the problem More…

The Scandal Sliding Scale: Profumo to Client No. 9

The old rule was that we were always shocked by what fascinated us the most. While big British scandals were about sex, big American scandals were about power.

But the country that bought us the ultimate power scandal of Watergate has turned remarkably British. From Gennifer Flowers to Paula More…

The Foreign Policy Candidate

It is one of the ironies of this election year that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is likely to be the Democratic presidential nominee thanks in large part to his foreign policy — the area in which he had least experience and most vulnerabilities. The key to his campaign has been More…