In listening to President Obama talk about infrastructure in his State of the Union Message, I couldn’t stop thinking about last year’s great movie “The…
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s bizarre and wandering late-night address to the nation on Friday is almost certainly the beginning of his end. Mubarak’s tone-deaf offer…
Events over the last few weeks demand a reconsideration, if not a full-scale reevaluation of the wisdom of the Obama administration’s overall approach to democracy…
As often happens with State of the Union addresses, President Obama’s speech left a lot of D.C. pundits and policy types unsatisfied and complaining that…
In setting a national goal of providing high-speed train service to 80 percent of Americans by 2035, President Obama challenged himself and Congress to come…
For those of you out there still trying to make sense of the President’s State of the Union address, we at PPI have spent the…
Last night, President Obama used the phrase “win the future” as the primary motif of his speech. But clearly, on his mind was also very…
Though the president failed to mention the words “foreign policy” until 80 percent of his speech lay in the rearview mirror, it very much served…
This week, I taught the first class of a graduate seminar at Virginia Tech titled “Collaborative Governance.” Our readings included a Foreign Affairs essay where…
If Rep. Paul Ryan’s response to the State of the Union Address was intended to broaden support for his party’s agenda, or actually “respond” to…