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Opinion: It's the Egyptian Economy, Stupid

On Monday, Egypt's military rulers announced plans to have a constitutional referendum later this month. That's welcome news to those fretting over whether a stable, transparent democracy can emerge from the ashes of the Mubarak regime in Egypt. But in order for democracy to sprout along the Nile, transitional leaders...

Bernanke: Mideast Threat to US Economy Is Mild -- For Now

The spike in fuel prices, sparked by Mideast turmoil, currently poses only a mild threat of broader inflation because the ailing U.S. jobs market has kept a lid on wages, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke told Congress today. But a continuing rise in the prices of oil and other commodities like steel, cotton and food...

Opinion: This Is No Way to Win the Future

In his State of the Union address delivered just a few weeks ago, President Barack Obama pushed the banal conceit of "winning the future." To great partisan applause, the president channeled the reality show "Survivor" (slogan: "Outwit, Outplay, Outlast") and proclaimed that the United States needs to "out-innovate,...

Opinion: It's Time to Move On From Reagan

I was a writer in Ronald Reagan's re-election campaign in 1984, a fact I usually don't mention until I get, say, two sentences into conversation with anyone I meet. I only met the president once in a grip-and-grin reception for staff. But because of my role, however minor, in the success of the greatest chief executive of...

What the World Was Like When Ronald Reagan Was Born

When he ran for president in 1980 at the age of 69, Ronald Reagan promised to restore "the great, confident roar of American progress and growth and optimism." And in his 1985 State of the Union Address, Reagan said there are "no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect." Progress was a recurring theme of...