Let's Not Make a Deal
September 13, 1999Greg MastelSeptember 13, 1999This week, the presidents of China and the United States are poised to strike a historic and probably irreversible agreement paving the way for China to...
View ArticleFree Trade With China
November 8, 1999Greg MastelNovember 8, 1999The fate of Chinas effort to join the World Trade Organization is unclear;matters involving internal deliberations in Beijing usually are. There is always the...
View ArticleA Feel-Good Agreement
November 29, 1999Greg MastelNovember 29, 1999The deal for China to enter the WTO won't be worth much without enforcement. With considerable fanfare, the Clinton administration last week struck an...
View ArticleThe China Trade
March 6, 2000Greg MastelMarch 6, 2000The fight over the permanent extension of most-favored-nation trading status to China is likely to be one of the hardest- fought congressional battles of 2000. Last...
View ArticleLet's Trade With Both Chinas
April 17, 2000Greg MastelApril 17, 2000Friends of China both inside and outside the Clinton administration are quick to assert that China's accession to the World Trade Organization will also mean WTO...
View ArticleBush the Bold?
February 12, 2001Eric CohenFebruary 12, 2001At the luncheon after George W. Bush's inauguration, senator Mitch McConnell toasted the new president as an American "Joshua," whose ability to bring people...
View ArticleRace and the Republicans
April 30, 2001Eric CohenApril 30, 2001Last February, a few days after a man from Indiana had fired several shots at the White House, I found myself driving a group of black fourth and fifth graders to...
View ArticleKnock Off the Cloning
June 18, 2001Eric CohenJune 18, 2001After a failed effort to ban human cloning in 1998, Congress has taken up the issue once again. There have been hearings in both the House and the Senate, testimony...
View ArticleOf Missile Defense and Stem Cells
July 16, 2001Eric CohenJuly 16, 2001Among the issues in American politics that inspire the most ideological fervor these days, stem cells and missile defense are at the top of the list. Missile defense...
View ArticleKeeping Up with the Joneses
July 30, 2001Eric CohenJuly 30, 2001There have been two prominent responses to the news that the Jones Institute in Virginia is creating human embryos simply to harvest their stem cells: concern and...
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Cloning, Stem Cells, and Beyond
August 13, 2001 William Kristol, Editor, The Weekly Standard August 13, 2001Last week's vote in the House to ban human cloning is something to celebrate. It may even be something momentous. The House...
View ArticleDr. West and Mr. Bin Laden
December 17, 2001 William Kristol December 17, 2001In testimony before the Senate last July, Dr. Michael West, president of Advanced Cell Technology and lead scientist on the team that recently cloned...
View ArticleAmerican Cities of Aspiration...
February 14, 2005Joel KotkinFebruary 14, 2005For much of the past decade, Darik Volpa labored long and hard in the high-tech vineyards of San Jose and Boston. As an executive in the medical instrument...
View ArticleA Prescription for Senile Liberalism
March 14, 2005 Less Howard Dean, More FDR Joel KotkinMarch 14, 2005... The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well...
View ArticleSects and the City; The New Urbanists have Forgotten Thousands of Years of...
May 2, 2005Joel KotkinMay 2, 2005When Fargo, North Dakota, businessman Howard Dahl boards a plane for the East Coast or flies to Europe and beyond, he is often struck by the views of the people he...
View ArticleGo For the Bitter Bloc
May 9, 2008Reihan SalamMay 9, 2008 Last week's Pennsylvania primary demonstrated that Barack Obama is not unbeatable. This might sound a strange way to put it. Hasn't it always been true that Obama is...
View ArticleThe War Over the War (cont.)
May 19, 2008 What the G.I. Bill Debate Is Really About. Reihan SalamMay 19, 2008 There's the war in Iraq and then there is the war over the war in Iraq. The first is about gaining ground against the...
View ArticlePeter Bergen and Fareed Zakaria in the Weekly Standard | 'Win the War?'
June 9, 2008 In the New Republic, Peter Bergen and Paul Cruickshank told the story of Sheikh Salman al-Awdah, author of an open letter attacking bin Laden and violent jihad that has caused shockwaves...
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