Archive | Richter Scale RSS feed for this section

The Case for German Leadership on Health Care

Could the Germans actually be more “capitalist” than the Americans? Let’s consider drug prices.

Read more »

The U.S. Supreme Court, Healthcare Reform and Domestic Political Peace

How is it possible that today the Supreme Court marches backwards so steadfastly, given the supposedly self-restraining power of precedent?

Read more »

Goldman Sachs and the Vatican: Two Cultures of Infallibility

What do two of the world’s most powerful institutions have in common?

Read more »

Europe’s Greece, America’s Afghanistan

Why are the investments Europe and the United States made in Greece and Afghanistan, respectively, failing to bear fruit?

Read more »

Just Who Fears Democracy? On the Need to Update the American Republic

How have today’s Europeans turned out to be the real practitioners of the American notion of “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness”?

Read more »

Russia alla Puttanesca

Where does Russia find itself in the world of today? What’s the real balance sheet of the Putin era to date?

Read more »

Ringfencing Greece

Is Europe’s primary goal to fix Greece — or to keep Greece from contaminating the rest of Europe?

Read more »

21st Century Coffeehouse Society

How are U.S. coffee shops turning into the office away from the office?

Read more »

How China’s Government Becomes Ever More Like America’s

Is China infringing on another U.S. copyright — the Byzantine ways and means of the U.S. federal government?

Read more »

Merkel Vs. Lagarde: The Two Titans of the Global Economy

Will Angela Merkel and Christine Lagarde find common ground in order to resolve Europe’s — and the world’s — economic crisis?

Read more »