After the American Century   A few months ago, MIT Press singled out my Electrifying America as one of 50 books to celebrate as ...

After the American Century It costs four times more more money to have a baby in the United States than it does in Germany or in Canad...

After the American Century Posting # 199 President Obama has given a major speech on the occasion of receiving the Nobel Prize. He began...

After the American Century For much of the twentieth century the American dollar was the benchmark currency. Whenever a crisis arose, world ...

After the American Century The climate is changing more quickly than lawmakers are. We know that species of fish along the coastlines are mo...

After the American Century The world stock markets have been in turmoil, falling drastically and bouncing back on the news that the US Feder...

All the candidates are talking about change . One area that screams out for change is US oil policy. The United States is the world's la...

On April 2, 2003 I sent a short opinion piece out to several US newspapers, criticizing the Bush Administration's planned war on Iraq....

In my last blog I pointed to some areas where the United States might learn from Denmark. Now it is only fair to do the reverse: what can De...

Can Americans Learn from Others? For most of the time during the last 225 years Americans have been convinced that they live in the best cou...