Hyde Park's Corner

More and more, reliable sources have reported that, we do not  have the best healthcare system in the world; it is near twice as expensi...

In the same way that regulators , central banks and prosecutors often treat major international banks as too big to fail, banking executive...

A very personal, poignant and honest poem about the uncomfortable relationship with his aging father, one some of us can relate to. And ...

Sweden and the Nordic countries were long reviled by American conservatives as places where “socialism” (government social programs) had g...

PIMCO is one of the most credible, respected and successful investment firms in the world. And Wm. Gross is one of the principal thinkers ...

Every now and then I’m struck by the commonalities of interest, philosophy, temperament and style found in poets separated by centuries. Pe...

Andy Borowitz ("The Borowitz Report" in the New Yorker ) is always so right on message, and satire is his medium, his natural gif...

Love, in all its manifestations and meanings, with all its misdirections, misunderstandings and implications, I embrace. A subject I have a...

From The Economist :   IN MOST countries the sight of 50,000 devout Sufis riding into the capital in brightly coloured buses and lorri...

[I will address the title topic working from a recent Foreign Affairs article by Fareed Zakaria. I will supplement that material with obse...