Bin Laden's Great Mistake: What Osama Never Understood About the American Spirit
May 10, 2011Romesh RatnesarMay 10, 2011When President Barack Obama announced on May 1 that U.S. forces had killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, I was among those who headed to the White House. The mood...
View ArticleObama's Mission: Talk to Some Enemies, Don't Kill Them
May 16, 2011Romesh RatnesarMay 16, 2011During the 2008 presidential campaign, Barack Obama made two shocking breaches of foreign-policy-establishment etiquette. The first was to suggest if the U.S. had...
View ArticleEgypt: Not Just the Facebook Revolution
June 3, 2011 Egypt's largest independent newspaper, Al-Masry Al-Youm, is showing Egyptians what a free press looks like. More than social media, that may be the key to the nation's future. Romesh...
View ArticlePerception and Reality: What Obama Really Needs Right Now | TIME Magazine
August 9, 2011Romesh Ratnesar, in his book Tear Down This Wall, said that Deaver "was the most powerful force in the molding of Reagan's public image," and that "his true talent was stagecraft." Lesley...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Rethink Counterterrorism Spending
September 7, 2011 After Sept. 11, no expenditure seemed too great. With a constricted economy and a declining threat, priorities need reexamining. Romesh RatnesarSeptember 7, 2011Judged solely on...
View ArticleIt May Soon Be Time for Woman at Top | New York Post
September 8, 2011Gibbs also has outlasted the so-called heir and the “spare” at Time Inc. Josh Tyrangiel, the former editor of Time.com who left to run Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and Romesh Ratnesar, who...
View ArticleCondoleezza Rice on Her Worst Year—and the Iraq Surge | BusinessWeek
November 3, 2011... I came to the conclusion that I'd support it. It would have been easier to just go along with the surge from the beginning. I'm glad I didn't. By the time we undertook the decision...
View ArticleYear of the Fist
December 22, 2011 The world has never been richer, healthier, or safer—but that isn't keeping much of it from a state of revolt. Romesh RatnesarDecember 22, 2011By historical measures, there’s really...
View ArticleBook Review: 'Power, Inc.' by David Rothkopf
March 1, 2012 A sprawling new book makes the case that companies, not kings, now rule the world. Romesh RatnesarMarch 1, 2012In the beginning, there was the goat. Sometime during the Dark Ages, in a...
View ArticleIn Afghanistan, the U.S. Mission Is Accomplished
March 14, 2012Romesh RatnesarMarch 14, 2012The massacre of 16 Afghan civilians by a lone U.S. service member last weekend has intensified debate as to whether the U.S. should speed the end of the war...
View ArticleWhy Romney Is Wrong on Defense Cuts
July 25, 2012Romesh RatnesarJuly 25, 2012Mitt Romney’s speech to the gathering of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Reno, Nev., offered his most expansive statements on foreign policy since the former...
View ArticleGarber, Pannes Discuss Outlook For Soccer In U.S. | BusinessWeek
September 7, 2012... chief executive officer of AS Roma, talk about the outlook for soccer in the U.S. and international markets. They speak with Bloomberg Businessweek's Romesh Ratnesar at the...
View ArticleRomney's Bungled Critique of a Failed Mideast Strategy
September 13, 2012Romesh RatnesarSeptember 13, 2012Mitt Romney’s response to the assaults on U.S. embassies in the Middle East was willfully misleading (accusing the Obama administration of issuing a...
View ArticleRomney Mideast Differences With Obama More Style Than Substance
September 20, 2012Romesh RatnesarSeptember 20, 2012Until the last few weeks, foreign policy remained in the background as President Barack Obama and his Republican challenger, Mitt Romney, duked it out...
View ArticleNew America NYC: Are We Still Innovating in America?
America: home to Apple Inc., Google, Amazon, and a slew of other powerful and innovative companies that rule the world of technology. The United States can no doubt claim many of the globe’s pioneering...
View ArticleThe Sidebar: The World Doth Protest
Romesh Ratnesar considers the future of American strategy in the Middle East after regional protests and President Obama's remarks at the U.N. General Assembly. Emily Parker explains the global...
View ArticleMeet Mitt Romney, Mellow Internationalist
October 23, 2012Romesh RatnesarOctober 23, 2012Neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney had much to gain from Monday night’s foreign-policy debate. After four years, the country is familiar and largely...
View ArticleThere's Nothing Foreign About Foreign Policy
October 25, 2012Romesh RatnesarOctober 25, 2012It took barely half an hour for Barack Obama and Mitt Romney to change the subject of their final debate from foreign to domestic policy. Responding to...
View ArticleSusan Rice and the Myth of Statesmanship
December 14, 2012Romesh RatnesarDecember 14, 2012Susan Rice’s decision to withdraw from consideration to be the next secretary of state has averted a potentially bruising Senate confirmation battle. It...
View ArticleAs in Boston, Resilience Can Help the U.S. Defeat Terrorist Attacks
April 18, 2013Romesh RatnesarApril 18, 2013URL: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-04-18/as-in-boston-resilience-can-help-the-u-dot-s-dot-defeat-terrorist-attacks
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