Peter Hannaford

Last year, California’s Governor Jerry Brown proclaimed an end to the state’s worrisome and persistent deficit. How did he do it? In the 2012 election he had fed voters the notion that a proposed income tax increase would be spent…

South American drug smugglers probably don’t care whether the U.S. has enough military power to fight two wars in distant lands simultaneously, but they do care about the size of the budget of their nemesis: the U.S. Coast Guard. Smugglers…

The Russian takeover of the Crimea, as well as many of our problems in the Middle East, was funded by high oil prices. Since there is no military solution to the Crimea conflict, President Obama should look closely at the…

Twenty years ago, Dubai, one of the United Arab Emirates, decided to reinvent itself as the financial and business hub of the Middle East — a latter day Hong Kong and Singapore rolled into one. The leaders planned a frenzy…

“Fluid” is the one word that describes the rapid flow of events in Ukraine over the last five days. The unpopular President, Viktor Yanukovych, decamped from Kiev for parts unknown; the parliament appointed a new government; finance officials kept telephone…

What, indeed, is nearly as rare as hen’s teeth? Answer: A major newspaper’s correction to an erroneous story. It happened earlier this month in the Washington Post. On September 8 last year, the Post carried a story about a little-known…

Beginning right after Thanksgiving until about now, every year millions of American families engage in a tradition that all pay attention to, but is invisible to the public eye. It is the exchange of Christmas or Holiday letters. A more…