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Wednesday Night #1417
April 29, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1417

T H E  R E P O R T A video tape of President Obama’s Press Conference set the tone for the early part of the even ...

Wednesday Night #1416
April 22, 2009, Comments Off on Wednesday Night #1416

An unexpected visit from Maureen Farrow stimulated a lively exchange about the role of banks and financial institutions ...

Cuba
April 20, 2009, Comments Off on Cuba

Cuba, Obama elbow economic crisis off summit stage (WaPost) PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad — Millions of Latin Americans ...

World economy and Geopolitics
February 23, 2009, Comments Off on World economy and Geopolitics

The Axis of Upheaval By Niall Ferguson (Foreign Policy March/April 2009) As economic calamity meets political and social ...

Hurricane Gustav 2008
September 2, 2008, 1 Comment

Remembering the incredible pluck of the Times Picayune during Katrina and the aftermath, we returned to this long-neglec ...

West Wing of Wednesday Night #5
August 13, 2008, 1 Comment

More from our West Wing The “Wednesday Night Salon” series – west coast edition is going for its fifth ...

Commodities and co-dependency
August 1, 2008, Comments Off on Commodities and co-dependency

This thoughtful piece by Kenneth Rogoff was written in 2005. In light of the collapse of the Doha round, it bears readin ...

West Wing of Wednesday Night #4
July 8, 2008, 1 Comment

More from our West Wing The “Wednesday Night Salon” series – west coast edition is going for its fourt ...

Wednesday Night #1374
July 2, 2008, 1 Comment

See photos and more on Wednesday-night.com After last week’s fascinating and informative evening on Iraqi Kurdista ...

Henry Kissinger at Conférence de Montréal
June 12, 2008, Comments Off on Henry Kissinger at Conférence de Montréal

U.S. needs bipartisan foreign policy: Kissinger Former U.S. secretary of state Henry Kissinger says the United States ne ...

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