The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai.

...foreign policy is a matter of costs and benefits, not theology.

I grew up in this world where everything seemed possible.

Thanks to the Communist Party of China, we now know the path to poverty alleviation is Capitalism.

If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.

Media reporters have pointed out that the paragraphs in my Time column this week bear close similarities to paragraphs in Jill Lepore's essay in the April 22nd issue of The New Yorker. They are right. I made a terrible mistake. It is a serious lapse and one that is entirely my fault. I apologize unreservedly to her, to my editors at Time, and to my readers.

If you listen to the political discourse in America today, you would think that all our problems have been caused by the Mexicans of the Chinese or the Muslims. The reality is that we have caused our own problems. Whatever has happened has been caused by isolating ourselves or blaming others.