George H.W. Bush: “I take special pride in our YES, our YES program, Youth Entering Service, which I proposed last fall to encourage…”

American officials must heed the lessons of the short-lived coup in 2002, when Bush Administration support for Chavez's ouster undermined America's standing in the region and damaged our credibility as a defender of democracy.

More than 220 years later, Washington's warning feels strikingly relevant.

But he hasn't heard my latest proposal. The bottom 99 percent will do well when they get to split Dick Cheney's stock options.

The case for trade is not just monetary, but moral . . .. Trade freely with China, and time is on our side.