By Steven Hill, ORF (Austrian public broadcasting), May 2, 2013
Author and analyst Steven Hill comments on President Obama renewing his pledge to close Guantanamo (go to ORF at this link, second story down)
Although it was promised as...
By Steven Hill, The Atlantic, April 15, 2013
Today, in an annual rite of bemoaning government intrusion into our personal finances, most Americans can at least console themselves in their belief that the US has one of the lowest …
By Steven Hill, The Atlantic.com, April 5, 2013
The White House says its 2014 budget will propose cuts to the retirement program. Not only is that unnecessary, the U.S. could and should expand it.
A fierce debate over Social …
by Michael Lind, Steven Hill, Robert Hiltonsmith, and Joshua Freedman, New America Foundation, April 3, 2013
A new study from the New America Foundation and Demos on making Social Security more stable.
Executive Summary. The conventional wisdom about Social …
By Steven Hill, The Atlantic.com,
Want a smarter workforce? A stronger manufacturing sector? Germany seems to offer a blueprint for Obama’s middle-out economic agenda — if we take away the right lessons
Americans have experienced a …
by Steven Hill, Environmental Law Reporter, February 2013
Europe leads and the U.S. lags in one of the biggest challenges of the 21st century — ecological sustainability.
Picture windmills, tidal turbines, and solar panels on rooftops, dotting the picturesque …
By Steven Hill, American Prospect, January 28, 2013
David Cameron’s speech has its fair share of detractors, but it should be embraced as an impetus to take Europe’s governance to the next level.
As President Barack Obama embarks on …
By Steven Hill and Robert Richie, The Atlantic.com, December 20, 2012
The horrific tragedy at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Conn., is the latest grisly episode in what has become a muted debate in the United States: what …
By Steven Hill, The Atlantic.com,
Fiscal cliff chatter about slashing the venerable program ignores its fundamental potential and underlying strength.
By Ian Masters, various radio stations, December 11, 2012
Does the European Union deserve the Nobel Peace Prize? I discuss this in my radio interview with Ian Masters on KPFK and other radio stations. I say “yes.” Not …
By Steven Hill, Atlantic/German Times, December 1, 2012
Europe’s choice boils down to: more federalism or lose the euro
A quiet breakthrough occurred recently in Europe, led in part by German Chancellor Angela Merkel who seems to have rediscovered …
By Steven Hill, AlterNet, November 26, 2012
(The following is an excerpt from the Introduction to 10 Steps to Repair American Democracy: A More Perfect Union, 2012 Election Edition by Steven Hill)
It’s time for American patriots to roll …
By Steven Hill, Truthout, November 24, 2012
In 2008, an economic crash of historic proportions shook the world. Without a politics that could rein in the economics, Wall Street honchos turned American banks and the financial system into their …
By Steven Hill, Sacramento Bee, November 16, 2012
The verdict is now in for the two political reforms pushed by former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and passed by voters. Both the top-two primary and independent redistricting commission have failed to …
By Steven Hill, Social Europe Journal, October 26, 2012
With the debates over and less than two weeks to go before the November 6 election in the United States, the presidential campaigns are shifting into their final phase: persuasion …
By Steven Hill, The Nation, October 15, 2012 (printed edition)
It is hard to recall a time when politics at the national level was so utterly paralyzed. Even when the Democratic White House and Senate align their stars, which …
By Steven Hill, Social Europe Journal, October 12, 2012
Geologists have demonstrated that an earthquake is the end-product of many minor episodes of seismic slippage along a fault line; each smaller event increases the tension until finally the whole …
By Steven Hill, Guardian, October 8, 2012
Europeans may not want federalism, but they have little choice. A divided Europe would suffer in the global market
In light of the recent political and economic proposals in Europe – especially …
By Steven Hill, IP Die Zeitschrift, September 2012
I have been writing a weekly blog about the US presidential election for the German publication IP Die Zeitschrift, which is published by the German Council on Foreign Relations ( Deutsche …
By Steven Hill, Washington Monthly, September 27, 2012
When European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso stood at the podium at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on September 12 to give his annual “State of the Union” address, few in …
