U.S. Competitiveness

GM is planning on hiring more workers to boost output, but those jobs won't be created in the Rust Belt. Instead, GM will be hiring an additional 600 workers in Brazil to help boost output in a country that's seen tremendous auto market growth in recent years.

And just like that, a former search powerhouse has bowed out of the race altogether. Yahoo!, once a giant in the area of internet search, will be replacing its search features with Microsoft's Bing. Bing will now get access to the 1/5 of total web searches claimed currently by Yahoo!.

Monday morning I flew out of Boston's Logan International Airport on my way home to the District. The historic airfield, built on top of a giant landfill, is New England's main transportation hub. It has been for the last 80 years. And, as I witnessed yesterday, its age is certainly starting to show. Despite all of the airport’s modern improvements including new vehicular access and an enlarged international terminal, Logan remains a relic of the past.

How is "web 2.0" straining second-tier universities during a time of financial uncertainty?

This Thursday, February 19, 2009, at 1:00pm - 2:30pm, CSIS will host Next America Advisory Board Member and renowned pollster, John Zogby, for a discussion of his new book, The Way We’ll Be: The Zogby Report On the Transformation of the American Dream.

Zogby sheds light on how Americans and the “Global Generation” are redefining the American dream and shaping a new American identity of compassion, internationalism and “cultural consciousness”.