by Patricia H. Kushlis | Oct 4, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Yes, Matilda, there is a clear relationship between the administration of the State Department and America’s ability to conduct its foreign policy successfully. I don’t know how many times it needs to be repeated before it registers on the Hill,...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Mar 25, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis Two weeks ago Friday, David Brooks – upon learning that the U.S. unemployment rate had fallen to 7.7% in February with over 200,000 new jobs added – told Judy Woodward on the Newshour that if one combined the good jobs news with the bad...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Mar 4, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis Maybe there is a silver lining to the latest Washington impasse between the President and Congressional Republicans. The sequester – which began this weekend – hasn’t yet caused the financial markets to behave like Pogo but such mindless...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 10, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — now the election dust has settled, let’s hear it for Nate Silver, Megyn Kelly, Zeynep Tufekci and xkcd ] . . I’m about as Qualit as you can get on the Qualit vs Quant side of things, and if I had a bête grise, it might well be...
by zen | Nov 8, 2012 | Monitor
Generally, I eschew writing about partisan politics, but like everyone else in America – and possibly a plurality of the planet – today the election was a topic of discussion, deconstruction and debate for me. President Obama and his supporters are...
