By what immaculate design, what unearthly force of circumstance or plot, did it come to pass that an American pilot would land an Airbus on the Hudson just days before Barack Obama's inauguration as the first black president of the United States?...
Though it’s clear that the origin of our current financial recession has its roots in the U.S. and in some ways right here in Chicago, I think it has been fueled and exacerbated by investors throughout the world...
Arms control specialists from the Bush and Clinton eras warn that the most pressing problem for the new Obama administration will be finding a way to halt the nuclear weapons programs of Iran and North Korea...
I am deeply impressed by the philanthropy of financial whiz Michael Steinhardt, but totally baffled by the decision of the New York State Board of Regents to approve his proposal to open a publicly funded Hebrew Language Academy Charter School in Brooklyn...
There is the old story about an American and a Chinese being chased by a tiger, where the punch line is the Chinese telling the American: “I do not have to run faster than the tiger— I only have to run faster than you!”...
