Carl Bloice

Philip Stephens, the chief political commentator for the Financial Times, summed it up pretty well I think: “Barack Obama gives a fine speech,” he wrote. “He did it again in Jerusalem. Few can match the US president in wrapping intelligent understanding in the pentameters of poetry. That’s why the vaulting rhetoric so often begets disappointment.…

What’s not to be happy about the travails of an organization that for decades has had a “southern strategy” of taking advantage of racial intolerance? Of seeking political advantage by demagogically targeting women and men who have crossed the southern border seeking work? Of stirring homophobia in an effort to divide and conquer? Yeah, I…

On February 6, the New York Times reported, “The Chinese government issued a long-awaited plan on Tuesday to narrow the gulf between rich and poor, offering broad vows to lift the incomes of workers and farmers and choke off corrupt wealth but few specific goals to rein in the nation’s wide inequality.” On the same…

One thing can be said for certain: 99.9 percent of those who gathered recently week for an Alpine sleepover either have a job or don’t need one. The same cannot be said of the billions who were not there. While some of the world’s economic and political elite gathered in Davos, Switzerland for the annual…

So much for the hopeful news. African American unemployment actually increased last month and – as has become usual – the rate for young black people remained at an alarming level. While the overall jobless rate stayed at 7.8 percent, the percentage of African Americans looking for work and finding none went from 13.2 percent…

This may be the last great opportunity for the United States to avoid permanently falling behind China. Much has been made during the past couple of months over the fact that critical top leadership decisions were being made in the United States and China at about the same time as clues were sought as to…