By • Feb 20,2009

America secretly popular in Asia

There’s a front-page story in today’s WaPo about Hillary Clinton’s listening tour in Asia. Not often reported, but included toward the end of this story, is a bit of data...

By • Feb 20,2009

The Ladies With All the Answers

The women who have penned some of the most sought-out advice columns are experts in a kind of social history. Not only have they memorized (and written) tomes on etiquette,...

By • Feb 20,2009

The European Sub-prime Mess

In October of last year, German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück was clucking about the financial crisis being “America’s problem”. The spate of bank rescues orchestrated across Old Europe, which inconveniently...

By • Feb 19,2009

Look…

It’s not too often that Jon Chait and I agree on the vagaries of what is offensive and what isn’t, but here we are. Sometimes a monkey is just a...