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Wherefore Art Thou, Green Obama

By Jon Entine

Those hoping for a green jolt to the economy must come to grips with three serious misconceptions.

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American Essays

  • The Death of the Cool

    The Death of the Cool

    Cool was once associated with reticence, savoir-faire, and irony, none of which is much practiced or regarded these ...

    Whether or not it is true that you can’t go home again, as Thomas Wolfe claimed—and the claim is just a special case of the more general observation of Heraclitus that you cannot step into ...

  • Jamaica vs. Singapore

    Jamaica vs. Singapore

    In 1965 the two nations were equal in wealth. Four decades later, their standing was dramatically different. What ...

    Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tel Aviv—the global hubs of entrepreneurial activity all bear the marks of government investment. Yet, for every successful public intervention spurring ...

  • Limited Utility

    Limited Utility

    What happens when populist politicians try to micromanage public utilities?

    What happens when populist politicians try to micromanage public utilities? Venezuelans found out recently when President Hugo Chavez unveiled his blueprint for dealing with water and electricity ...

  • The Critical U.S-India Relationship

    The Critical U.S-India Relationship

    At the upcoming state visit, the challenge for President Obama is to make sure that the United States works closely ...

    It is a testament to how far the U.S.-India relationship has come that Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will be the first foreign leader granted an official state visit to the Obama White House. Amid ...

  • Delayed Childbearing and Voting Behavior

    Delayed Childbearing and Voting Behavior

    The correlation between religious and moral values and voting behavior did not operate a generation ago.

    It is commonly understood, I think, that American women are having their first babies later in life than they used to. Over a long generation, the change has been even more striking than I would have ...

  • APEC: The Keystone to U.S. Asian Policy

    APEC: The Keystone to U.S. Asian Policy

    As the Obama administration formulates policies for Asia, it should make a trans-Pacific vision for regional ...

    Almost two decades ago, then-Secretary of State James Baker stated that the United States wanted to avoid any policy that “would draw a line down the middle of the Pacific and threaten to ...

  • Congress to Healthcare Market: Drop Dead

    Congress to Healthcare Market: Drop Dead

    Government-based overhaul has completely monopolized the debate on healthcare. Here are seven examples of successful ...

    Government healthcare reform sure gets a lot of media attention. In just the last month alone there have been about 13,000 new stories containing the word “government” and the phrase ...

  • Economic Prosperity: A Step of Faith

    Economic Prosperity: A Step of Faith

    There is a strong relationship between economic prosperity and religious liberty.

    Several years ago a group of Arab intellectuals came together to study the economic malaise—fueled by high unemployment, massive illiteracy, and anemic GDPs—that grips much of the Muslim ...

  • State of the Stimulus

    State of the Stimulus

    One reason unemployment continues to rise may be that stimulus funds did not target high-unemployment states.

    On Friday, the Labor Department announced that the national unemployment rate rose by 0.4 percentage points to 10.2 percent. This increase is larger than expected for October and represents the ...

  • The Berlin Wall, 20 Years Later

    The Berlin Wall, 20 Years Later

    The occasion of remembering the fall of the Wall is a fitting time to recall the broader sweep of events that ...

    The fall of the Berlin Wall on this day 20 years ago was the most spectacular moment of the end of the Cold War, but in fact only represented the midpoint in the “last sad chapter” of ...

Datapoints

Palin’s Prospects

Though the balance of opinion on Sarah Palin is negative, she may have room to move opinions over time.

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Jamaica vs. Singapore By Josh Lerner 11/19/2009
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The Death of the Cool By Robert McHenry 11/20/2009
Cool was once associated with reticence, savoir-faire, and irony, none of which is much practiced ...
Economic Prosperity: A Step of Faith By Joseph Loconte 11/11/2009
There is a strong relationship between economic prosperity and religious liberty.
Limited Utility By Roger Noriega 11/19/2009
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The Critical U.S-India Relationship By Neena Shenai 11/18/2009
At the upcoming state visit, the challenge for President Obama is to make sure that the United ...
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