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September 18, 2009

World Policy reviews Stephen Cohen's Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives

Perhaps Barack Obama’s decision to scrap the proposed antiballistic shield in Central and Eastern Europe will improve U.S.-Russian relations but as Stephen F. Cohen has argued, much still needs to be done to prevent another Cold War. In his most...

September 3, 2009

David Harvey's newest reviewed in Bookforum

The Fall issue of Bookforum, now available online, includes Scott McLemee’s review of David Harvey’s Cosmopolitanism and the Geographies of Freedom. In an intriguing move, McLemee situates Harvey’s work between the cosmopolitanism of Kant’s and that of Thomas Friedman, the...

August 31, 2009

R. Glenn Hubbard on Obama's health care policy

Bill Clinton’s failed attempt at health care reform is frequently cited as an example from which Obama can learn from as he tries to pass his own health care reform. In a New York Times op-ed, R. Glenn Hubbard, former...

August 24, 2009

Deporting American Citizens — Jacqueline Stevens

In a piece published on the Huffington Post, Jacqueline Stevens, author of the forthcoming States without Nations: Citizenship for Mortals, recounts the remarkable case of Mark Lyttle, a U.S. citizen who was temporarily deported. (For more on the Mark Lyttle...

August 18, 2009

The Daily Kos interviews Joe Cirincione

In addition to his recent piece in the Huffington Post, Joe Cirincione, author of Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons, was also interview by Daily Kos. Cirincione has been discussing the Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) which is...

August 11, 2009

New report on eduction / The Common Good Forecaster

Earlier this summer the American Human Development Project released a report exploring the impact of education. With the school year approaching it seemed an appropriate time to look at some of the report’s findings many of which reflect the data...

July 31, 2009

Health care for the Blue Dogs — Jacob Hacker

Earlier this week, Jacob Hacker, editor of Health at Risk: America’s Health System—And How to Heal It, wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post on the “Blue Dog” Democrats’ apprehension about Obama’s health care plan. Hacker argues that while the...

July 17, 2009

The People's Daily Online on How East Asians View Democracy

Needless to say, it’s not every day that one of our books gets mentioned in The People’s Daily, published by the government of China, so we thought their article Social stability spells well-being for commonality, was worth mentioning. The article...

June 11, 2009

Jameel Jaffer Discusses the Suppression of CIA Documents on "Hardball"

Jameel Jaffer, co-author of Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond, recently appeared on Hardball with Chris Matthews to discuss the suppression of CIA documents relating to the interrogation of prisoners at Guantánamo and...

June 9, 2009

Candidate and Blogger Gianni Vattimo

Gianni Vattimo, noted European intellectual and author of the recently published Not Being God: A Collaborative Autobiography, was a victorious candidate in last weekend’s European Parliamentary elections. Moreover, his party, the leftist Italy of Values Party, was considered a winner...

June 5, 2009

Marc Lynch on Obama's Speech

President Obama’s speech today in Cairo met the bar he set for himself. In an address modeled after the Philadelphia speech on race, he forewent soaring oratory in favor of a thoughtful, nuanced and challenging reflection on America’s relations with...

May 7, 2009

Interview with Mitchell Orenstein, editor of Pensions, Social Security, and the Privatization of Risk

The following is an interview with Mitchell A. Orenstein, editor of Pensions, Social Security, and the Privatization of Risk. Q: Is Social Security going to be there when I retire? Mitchell Orenstein: Surprisingly, the answer is yes. After years of...

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