Monthly Archives: May 2010

“I cannot agree with those who suggest that it somehow threatens the future to provide truly temporary, high-bang-for-the-buck jobs and growth measures. Spurring growth, if we can achieve it, is by far the best way to improve our fiscal position.” … Continue reading →

“By his account, Clarke was about as successful at getting the Bush administration to take cyber-war seriously as he was at warning them of al-Qaeda. But a cyber-9/11 could be the next big thing, he cautions, conjuring visions of frozen … Continue reading →

“All who have to report complex stories or to make complex decisions know that facts can be illusive, especially under sharp time pressure. But, media outlets and thoughtful commentators should ask and answer these questions to provide a sound factual … Continue reading →

Imagine Tucson in the ‘Sun Corridor’ Arizona Daily Star May 21 Cited: Research co-authored by Joe Kalt, Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development Topic: Competition The competition between Tucson and Phoenix is over. “Declare Phoenix the winner,” said Dan … Continue reading →

“The health care system was a long-gathering, deep and profound structural problem. The financial system had a catastrophic heart attack in 2008.” –Lawrence Summers, on leave from the Belfer Center’s board of directors to serve as director of the National … Continue reading →

“If you’re living on an island that is only two meters above sea level, and sea level goes up by three meters, you don’t adapt- you evacuate.” John P. Holdren, on leave from the Belfer Center’s board of directors to … Continue reading →

“Thus, just as a bipartisan commission should focus on the right public policies going forward, so too the independent BP commission should outline appropriate company safety standards and processes for risky BP drilling projects (which would cover both BP and … Continue reading →

“Nowhere else in the world is there such a dense concentration of armed units and political antagonists in a tense face-off that largely avoids routine clashes, but in the past four decades has erupted into active fighting and massive attacks … Continue reading →

“Now is the time for Pakistan’s internet community to engage in an organised and compelling dialogue: if not with the offenders, then most certainly with the rest of the world that is watching. Pakistanis need to take back the internet, … Continue reading →

“The commission is intended to emulate others that followed major national disasters like the accident that destroyed the Challenger space shuttle in the 1980s. It will look at what happened when the BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded and make … Continue reading →