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David Rohde

David Rohde

David Rohde is a columnist for Reuters, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and a former reporter for The New York Times. More

He is the author, with Kristen Mulvihill, of A Rope and a Prayer: A Kidnapping from Two Sides. His column focuses on foreign affairs and the global middle class, from the shrinking American middle class to the burgeoning middle classes of China, India and other emerging market nations.

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How the Global Middle Class Can Save the American Middle Class

How the Global Middle Class Can Save the American Middle Class

Here's the game plan: hire over here, sell over there. More companies are creating jobs by taking advantage of rising global wealth… More »

Ending NATO's Double Standard on International Justice

Ending NATO's Double Standard on International Justice

The West puts others on trial for war crimes, the argument goes, while exempting its own forces from scrutiny.… More »

The Lesson of JP Morgan's $2 Billion Loss: Break Up the Big Banks

The Lesson of JP Morgan's $2 Billion Loss: Break Up the Big Banks

The news is astonishing. And yet, it changes nothing. The banks are still too big to fail, and still, they fail.… More »

Bosnia's Lesson: When American Intervention Works (Partly)

Bosnia's Lesson: When American Intervention Works (Partly)

Contrasting the U.S. experiences in the wars here, in Iraq, and in Afghanistan.… More »

Ghosts of a Genocide: The Contentious Ethnic Politics of Today's Bosnia

Ghosts of a Genocide: The Contentious Ethnic Politics of Today's Bosnia

A mayoral election in Srebrenica, the site of a horrific 1995 massacre, is reopening scars from one of Europe's worst conflicts since World War Two.… More »

Why Obama Is Winning the Battle for Middle America

Why Obama Is Winning the Battle for Middle America

The dueling platforms from the president and the GOP front-runner are both disappointing. But one is much more disappointing than the other.… More »

Should the World Trust Islamists?

Should the World Trust Islamists?

Newly powerful groups in Egypt and Tunisia cannot afford to become Hamas-like international pariahs, but they should be watched closely.… More »

Can Tunisia Become the Silicon Valley of the Arab World?

Can Tunisia Become the Silicon Valley of the Arab World?

The country could be a model for how economic innovation can help the changing Middle East succeed.… More »

The Anti-Walmart: The Secret Sauce of Wegmans Is People

The Anti-Walmart: The Secret Sauce of Wegmans Is People

Wegmans, which operates its 79 stores in New York, Pennsylvania and four other East Coast states, shows that a business can generously train its workforce and profit handsomely.… More »

5 Myths About the Afghan War

5 Myths About the Afghan War

How the U.S. can withdraw without too much of a disaster.… More »

The Islamic World's Culture War, Played Out on TV Soap Operas

The Islamic World's Culture War, Played Out on TV Soap Operas

How Turkish TV dramas explore, and sometimes flaunt, some of the Middle East's touchiest social issues.… More »

Why the World Must Prepare to Arm Syria's Rebels

Why the World Must Prepare to Arm Syria's Rebels

Bashar al-Assad is winning, and while it isn't yet time to supply opposition fighters, it might be soon.… More »

This Is What Job Creation Really Looks Like

This Is What Job Creation Really Looks Like

In Washington, tax-cut conservatives face off against stimulus-now liberals to raise employment. In the real world, party orthodoxy crumbles.… More »

The Jobs University: How to Turn Our Schools Into Engines of Innovation

The Jobs University: How to Turn Our Schools Into Engines of Innovation

Holden Thorp, chancellor of the University of North Carolina, is dedicated to transforming his school into a laboratory for entrepreneurs… More »

The Middle Class and Mitt

The Middle Class and Mitt

If the 2012 election is a referendum on how the economy is treating average Americans, should Romney be concerned?… More »

In the Era of Greed, Meet America's Good Bank: USAA

In the Era of Greed, Meet America's Good Bank: USAA

"USAA is not publicly traded. And we take a conservative approach to managing our members' money."… More »

The World According to Mitt Romney

The World According to Mitt Romney

How the leading GOP candidate sees American foreign policy and its challenges ahead… More »

It's Time for America to Negotiate With the Taliban

It's Time for America to Negotiate With the Taliban

Direct talks are the least bad, and maybe only, way to wind down the Afghan War -- but it has to include Pakistan… More »

Here Come the Jobs! (But How's the Pay?)

Here Come the Jobs! (But How's the Pay?)

Study after study shows that a dearth of high-paying jobs is dividing our society, politics and middle class… More »

What Does it Mean to Be 'Middle Class'?

What Does it Mean to Be 'Middle Class'?

The middle class has been intensively studied, but there is no official American government definition of the group, and no political consensus exists over how it was created or how to strengthen it… More »

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