I don't know about you, but it seems like it's been forever waiting for President Obama's team to get settled-in at State. Now that Michael Posner has been officially installed as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL), it's about time we get started down the...

Show me da money, Marion!

Hard to believe that you could burn through all that sweat-stained endorsement cash. I guess that you really can't scrimp on "stonewalling" lawyers when you've been fibbing to the feds.

Track and field athletes used to be like Burmese monks --...

You need to "own" the global political economy issue.

You cannot do this with your rhetoric about trade agreements, however. Union members are already being bombarded with sliced and diced "he said, she said" on who supported which trade agreement. You need to serve up some totally new formulations. For...

The corrosive effect of the 'gov-biz-gov-biz' revolving-door on U.S. democratic institutions is most apparent in the blurring of distinctions, such as business partner/strategic partner, client-state/arms purchaser or ally/customer. Cheney was Secretary of Defense when Saudi Arabia was among the top three buyers of U.S. advanced weaponry (he's a salesman and...

Because she's a Russia scholar, Secretary Rice will be quite familiar with Lenin's term, "useful idiot." Near the end of her decade on Chevron's board (she joined it in 1991 while a professor at Stanford University), the corporation cooked up the very responsible-sounding "The Chevron Way to a Strong Board."...

"In this industry, the only reason to change is because someone has got a great cattle prod that keeps jabbing you in the rear end," said Bud Konheim, a garment executive in 1997.

Corporations in the garment industry with image problems spent nearly $14 million every working hour last year...

It was a borderline reckless field trip for the U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia to visit the Tanjung Priok slum in N. Jakarta for a Muslim "fast-breaking" ceremony during the holy month of Ramadan. Just a few years earlier, Suharto's ruthless army had killed over a dozen protesters at an Islamic...