Insights and Resources

Festering Tensions Between India, Pakistan Threat to Global Security

(Hindustan Times) - INTERVIEW William J Burns retired as the deputy secretary of state in 2014, and is currently the president of Carnegie Endowment for International…

From Guns to Jewelry

(The New York Times) - One cold evening this winter, on the fifth floor of an unremarkable building on West 46th Street, Louis Onty, owner…

Carly Fiorina talks leadership, innovation in Lansing

LANSING — California businesswoman Carly Fiorina came to Michigan on Tuesday to talk about leadership with a crowd of more than 400 people at a Michigan…

Maajid Nawaz calls on David Cameron to create a ‘counter-extremism czar’

(International Business Times) - "To make sure there is seamless policy co-ordination across government, [the czar] needs to be accountable under Downing Street, not different secretary…

Stiglitz, De Blasio and Warren team up against inequality

Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Laureate in economics, has teamed up with New York Major Bill De Blasio and US Senator Elizabeth Warren to propose a…

Paulson Downplays China’s New Infrastructure Bank

(The Wall Street Journal) - Politicians rarely agree, let alone three U.S. Treasury Secretaries. Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson played down the significance of China’s…

‘Shark Tank’ at the White House: Daymond John named entrepreneurship ambassador

Daymond John, an investor on the reality series "Shark Tank," was one of nine business founders named Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship by the White House on…

Gingrich Says De Blasio Social Contract Doomed Without Specifics

(Bloomberg) - New York’s mayor intends to release a “progressive agenda” in Washington, a Democratic rendition of the “contract” Gingrich offered as speaker in 1994.

Paulson on China-US Relations

Growing GOP field ‘gonna be a zoo’: Jim Nussle

Piketty, Stiglitz and Our Renewed Interest in Inequality

(The Huffington Post) - Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel laureate, has just published The Great Divide, a kind of application of Piketty to the United States. (Disclaimer:…

How Carly Fiorina is responding to questions about her HP firing

(The Washington Post) - Newly-minted GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina on Sunday forcefully pushed back on critiques of her tenure as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, saying the underlying…