
ARTICLE: Demography, growth and the environment: Falling fertility, The Economist, Oct 29th 2009 Worth watching...

OP-ED: The Tenacity Question, By DAVID BROOKS, New York Times, October 29, 2009 Good piece by Brooks, which captures, I think, the key unanswered question on Obama: The experts I spoke with describe a vacuum at the heart of the war effort -- a determination vacuum...

The KIN, as it is known, meets several times a year, and it's a sort of TED-like event that's focused on management issues...

OP-ED: The Next Steps on Nonproliferation, BY HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON, Foreign Policy, OCTOBER 28, 2009 Terrible, cliched beginning: In an age of pressing global challenges, none threatens our nation or our world as urgently as the possible spread of nuclear weapons...

POST: Changing the world with Charter Cities, By Paul Raven, Futurismic, October 10, 2009 A very Development-in-a-Box™ style idea: outsourcing the sovereignty function temporarily to jump start a hub city, or one that generates super amounts of connectivity in a short time. ...

OPINION: "America's Natural Gas Revolution," by Daniel Yergin and Robert Ineson, Wall Street Journal, 3 November 2009. The rise of "unconventional gas" in the U.S. What is unconventional? Gas from shales, coal-bed methane and so-called "tight formations" that are harder to access...

FRONT PAGE: "Mexican Pot Gangs Infiltrate Indian Reservations in U.S.," by Joel Millman, Wall Street Journal, 5 November 2009...

WORLD NEWS: "U.S. and China Ease a Range of Trade Restrictions: Beijing Allows Pork Imports, Washington to Let In Chickens, as Joint Commission Resolves Some Disputes Before Obama Visit," by James T. Areddy, Wall Street Journal, 30 October 2009. WORLD NEWS: "Beijing Slams U.S...

WORLD NEWS: "Revolutionary Guards Extend Reach to Iran's Media: Planned News Agency Fits With Move to Dominate Accounts of Events; 'They Want to Control Public Opinion,'" by Farnaz Fassihi, Wall Street Journal, 4 November 2009...

ARTICLE: Group Resists Korean Stigma for Unwed Mothers, By CHOE SANG-HUN, New York Times, October 7, 2009 Remember when we were told that Asian societies were so different from our own...

ARTICLE: Clinton Arrival in Pakistan Met by Fatal Attacks, By MARK LANDLER and ISMAIL KHAN, New York Times, October 28, 2009 With the Obama team continuing Bush-Cheney's lack of strategic imagination in regionalizing the solution set on Afghanistan (no worries, as the Chinese solution plugs...

OP-ED: Bunkers or Breakthrough?, By ROGER COHEN, New York Times, November 5, 2009 Honestly, I see Cohen's angst here as completely misplaced. Normalization with Iran is not contingent on precluding Iran's nuclear achievement. Hell, NorKo made it happen and THEN we offered them a peace treaty...










