No real-world human being brings to the U.S. presidency the range of attributes necessary for full success in the job.

Environmental disaster is the gravest threat to China's continued development. That's according to me, but it is not some wacko view.

Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions.

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

No one ever really 'learns' from history, because choices never present themselves in exactly the same way, and because you can always choose similarities and differences to fit current needs.

Everyone moans about the collapsing U.S. infrastructure.

I am explicitly not opening the giant can of worms that is the ongoing current discussion of patent, copyright, and trademark reform.