The Financial Times seems to like my letters. This is the third one they have published since the beginning of this year.

In my 19 April 2022 Letter to the Editor of the Financial Times, I suggested that the G20 global policy forum be replaced by a G15.

I have tried to get the Biden Administration to include a “new city” project in their program to reduce migration from Central America.

In my 9 February 2022 Letter to the Editor of the Financial Times, I wrote about the problem of unsustainable debt owed to China.

In my February 2022 Letter to the Editor of the Washington Post, I suggested that growing the US population to 800 million is a lousy idea.

One of my Peace Corps group mates had the idea of building a sports complex in Palestine for Middle East youth. Here is our elevator pitch.

A friend had the brilliant idea for an amendment that would stop campaign financing by corporations. Here is our elevator pitch.

I try to send updates to family and friends at least twice a year covering the ongoing conflict and progress in building Parami University.

Here are my notes for the online 8-week course I taught in 2021 for students in Myanmar. A Parami University continuing education project.

Before deciding on a migration policy, the USA should have a policy aimed at stabilizing our policy around the 330 million level.

The COVID-19 pandemic is pushing many countries to the edge of default. Workouts will use Paris Club rules, but China is not a member.

The Peace Corps sent me to India in 1965 to introduce modern poultry keeping. Here’s a short account of my unimpressive accomplishments.

In my February 2021 Letter to the Editor of the Financial Times, I wrote that China’s falling birth rate is a positive, not negative, trend.

Remarks for a youth forum in January 2021 via Zoom.

The Covid19 pandemic forced the evacuation of all Peace Corps volunteers overseas. And prompted thoughts on the future of the Peace Corps.

I co-authored an essay, published by East Asia Forum in May 2020, on how to make Indonesia’s project to build a new capital successful.

In a December 2019 blog post for Brookings, three months before the Covid-19 pandemic, I wrote about the coexistence of peace and war.

In this Brookings blog post, co-authored with Alex Arifianto, we called the upcoming election a “statistical dead heat”.

In a December 2018 blog post for Brookings, I predicted that the UN’s new Global Compact on Migration will fail due to political resistance.

In a June 2018 blog post for Brookings, I wrote that “deinstitutionalization” is leading to lives that will be nasty, brutish, and short.