Category Archives: General

May 13, 2009

Change We Can Believe In

Since the AI‘s inception, we’ve had the privilege of publishing some of the best minds in policy. With a new Administration taking over the White House in January, it’s not surprising that a number of these minds have found jobs … Continue reading

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March 23, 2009

Mexico and the Drug Wars

One of the most obvious policy initiatives that the United States could undertake right now is is to seriously up the amount of help being given Mexico to bolster security along the US-Mexican border and to help to reform the … Continue reading

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March 13, 2009

Thinking About the Future of American Capitalism

There is a pervasive sense of unreality in Washington about the nature and scale of the economic crisis facing the United States and the world. The Obama Administration seems to be proceeding on the assumption that the problem in the … Continue reading

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January 9, 2009

Daschle on Health Care Reform

I recently read Tom Daschle’s new book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health Care Crisis” (co-authored with Jeanne M. Lambrew and Scott S. Greenberger). This book has particular relevance since he will soon be the new czar of … Continue reading

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December 30, 2008

The Obama Stimulus Plan

In his op-ed piece of last Sunday’s Washington Post, Larry Summers underscored that the Obama administration’s fiscal stimulus package is being designed not only to create “jobs and incomes essential for recovery,” but also to make “a down payment on … Continue reading

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December 29, 2008

Samuel Huntington, 1927-2008

It is with great sadness that I note the passing on Christmas eve of Samuel Huntington, long-time teacher, friend, and editorial board member of The American Interest.  I knew Huntington from my final year in graduate school at Harvard, when … Continue reading

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December 24, 2008

The Madoff Ponzi

It is difficult not to wonder about this. When I discuss the matter with my friends, the inevitable point is made that it is really hard to spend $50 billion dollars, even over a 10-15 year period. So where did … Continue reading

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December 18, 2008

Thinking About Fiscal Policy

As the United States Government seeks to dig the economy out of a recession through a massive fiscal stimulus package, many voices continue to remind us that the larger challenge to be faced is the large and growing long-term fiscal … Continue reading

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December 5, 2008

What Will the Obama Administration Administer?

These first few weeks since the election have been enormously heartening. The Obama administration’s cabinet is beginning to take shape with nominees of high quality—well trained, pragmatic, with enormous experience, and good judgment. This signal that a sensible economic policy … Continue reading

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November 17, 2008

Better Late than Never?

In the January-February 2008 issue, I warned, in “Averting the Third Kosovo War”, that the Bush Administration should not recognize the independence of Kosovo until it first negotiated a deal to guarantee the autonomy of the ethnic Serbs who predominate … Continue reading

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