richard nixon

  • We’ve been through these types of presidential elections before

    No matter how this year’s presidential election turned out, there were going to be about 60 million people in America who felt the winner was “in no manner, shape or form someone who represented them or their values.” And the keynote speaker at last week’s 27th annual SRI Conference on Sustainable, Responsible, Impact Investing at…


  • May: Iran and the future of the Middle East

    May: Iran and the future of the Middle East

    Obama’s bet on the Islamic republic moderating is a long-shot Nixon went to China. Obama will not be going to Iran. The 1972 visit of President Richard M. Nixon to the People’s Republic included meetings with both Chairman Mao Zedong, the communist revolutionary leader, and Premier Zhou Enlai, the pragmatic head of the government. Détente…


  • Polman: Donald Trump’s fact-free marketing of fear

    Polman: Donald Trump’s fact-free marketing of fear

    I knew it would be a long night when Donald Trump launched his acceptance speech with a promise to speak “honestly,” telling the crowd, “There there will be no lies. We will honor the American people with the truth, and nothing else.” As if. When a con man offers to sell you Arizona land with…


  • May: Can America change course?

    May: Can America change course?

    The next president needs a new approach to national security. That may be easier said than done. As you watch the circus that is the 2016 presidential campaign, which candidate strikes you as having a coherent vision of national security for the post-Obama era? Who has told you what he (or she) will do about…


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