Margaret Thatcher

BBH ad firm sets up office in India

London-based BBH (Bartle Bogle Hegarty), known as much for the brands it has built as for its insignia--an ovine silhouette--is optimistic about starting business here, the slow economy notwithstanding.

The Blame Shame

OUT OF HANDRe: G. Tracy Mehan's Social Conservatives as Scapegoats: This blaming of Sarah Palin for the election loss has gotten out of hand. It is being fed by "progressives," many of whom are simply uninformed; a conservative...

Slapped down by helping hand

So is wrist slashing. Business Council of Australia chief executive Katie Lahey wants to kick off a discussion about quotas in response to new data suggesting Australian women are not storming the boardrooms and running our...

Reality to sink in quickly for the president-elect

Editor, New Era:President-elect Barack Obama will face the same world that George Bush struggled with for eight years. Just like Mr. Bush, Mr. Obama puts on his trousers one leg at a time and would sink if he tried to walk on...

Barack Obama -- and the first 'African-Roman' emperor of Rome

I’m surprised that no-one seems to have spotted an obvious Roman parallel for the success of Barack Obama. Or have I missed it? In the second century AD, Lucius Septimius Severus became the first ‘African-Roman’ emperor of...

E.J. Dionne Jr. -- Which GOP Will Obama Face?

There is a second transition underway over which President-elect Barack Obama has no control -- the transition of conservatives to minority status. How they do this will have a powerful impact on the new presidency.

Commentary: Palin saboteurs want to stop growth of her career quickly

Attacks on Gov. Sarah Palin by the McCain campaign staff at first appear to be a case of making her a convenient scapegoat, but the attacks have a more devious motive. This post-election barrage is the first volley of the...

E.J. Dionne Jr.: A big question mark

How will conservatives handle the shift to minority status? But how conservatives resolve their differences will also matter to Mr. Obama's success. Ideological conservatives talk obsessively about returning to the glory days...

Milt Rosenberg Awarded the Prestigious National Humanities Medal

Five nights a week, for the last thirty-six years, except when preempted by baseball or hockey, Milt Rosenberg has been hosting a radio show where people talk about the most amazing things: books. Broadcast on WGN, the station...

Never Wobbly (Lady Thatcher Bio- "I Hate Communists." )

Conservatives of a fatalistic bent -- their numbers this month have swollen -- like to depress themselves with the maxim that government programs never perish. Statism's relentless march can be checked at times but rarely...