Today, “globalization” is a curse word for many people. Five years ago I co-authored a piece that tried to be realistic but seems optimistic in today’s world.

After Trump's election in 2016, four of my blog pieces about him were published on the Brookings website. Here I assess what I wrote then.

A few weeks ago, I stumbled across an ad from PNC Bank, perhaps embedded in a Google search. It featured the President of PNC Bank...

The essay in The Atlantic proposes global wealth cap, resonating with my 2016 message to the President of Brookings on wealth inequality.

Termessos is a city in Turkey that held off an attack by Alexander the Great in 333 BC. This is a story about historical preservation.

The problems facing the world today seem endless and intractable. Don’t expect any breakthroughs at the IMF/World Bank meetings this week.

Last Oct, the Financial Times published my Letter to the Editor suggesting that banking needs to be boring again. Now Senator Warren agrees.

Here’s why “corporate social responsibility”, often simply CSR, is a reflection of a broken political/economic system.

If you came across references to Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), did you wonder if it is like cryptocurrency? Good CBDCs are very diff

Universal Basic Income sounds crazy but it has been tested and might be adopted in the USA before the end of this century.

Youth unemployment is rising in countries at all income levels. If the trend continues, it could become seriously socially destabilizing.

The crucial issue is whether the Democratic Party will retain its majority but there is a deeper issue.

One of my Peace Corps group mates had the idea of building a sports complex in Palestine for Middle East youth. Here is our elevator pitch.

A friend had the brilliant idea for an amendment that would stop campaign financing by corporations. Here is our elevator pitch.

Remarks for a youth forum in January 2021 via Zoom.

This Brookings blog post sketched out my rationale for a new policy research project on the global challenge of urban youth unemployment.

In this blog post, I recalled Teddy Roosevelt’s “speak softly and carry a big stick” and contrasted this to Trump’s emerging foreign policy.

In this blog post, I recalled Teddy Roosevelt’s “speak softly and carry a big stick” and contrasted this to Trump’s emerging foreign policy.

In this Brookings blog post, I tried to explain the difference between private sector business deals and government policy decisions.

For the Brookings blog, I suggested that being respected is a better foreign policy objective for the USA than being loved or feared.