Nina Easton
Nina Easton
Nina Jane Easton is an American journalist and author. She is currently a senior editor and columnist for Fortune Magazine where she covers political and economic news. Easton is also the co-chair of Fortune Magazine's annual Most Powerful Women Summit, a frequent political analyst on television and 2012 fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth27 October 1958
CountryUnited States of America
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The pact creating a North American free-trade zone was President Bill Clinton's signature accomplishment; but NAFTA is also the bugaboo of union leaders, grassroots activists and Midwesterners who blame free trade for the factory closings they see in their hometowns.
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Trying to decipher where President Obama really stands on free trade can be like trying to trace the U.S.-Mexico border with a Google map. There are words, and there are actions - but there is mostly that long squiggly line in between.
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It's true that many of the leaders who started at non-elite colleges as undergrads later attended prominent graduate schools in law, business, medicine, and so on. But the point is that they found their own way there - as young men and women in their early 20s, not teenagers pressed into action by parents and peers.
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In the fall of 1996, I sat inside weekly strategy meetings of conservative activists as part of research for my book, 'Gang of Five,' chronicling the rise of the baby-boomer Right.
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A woman's decision to carry a baby to term knowing that she will not reap the fruits of motherhood should be treated as an act of bravery and selflessness - the ultimate standards of good motherhood.
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Scratch the surface at conservative think tanks and universities that house free-market economists, and it's not hard to find proponents of a carbon tax.
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Successful candidates follow a simple fundamental rule: Define yourself before your opponent can define you.
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Reality shows serve up juicy drama out of human shortcomings.
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Public anger over bank bailouts was as much about fairness as the billions of dollars spent.
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Presidents can be judged by the company they choose to keep.
Presidential coverage used to be a very serious endeavor.
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Modern Americans - shaped by raucous politics and a rapacious media - like to think of themselves as experts in confronting mistakes.
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Main Street versus Wall Street was the 2008 economic mantra of Democrat Barack Obama.
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In the new economy, we all have to be entrepreneurs with our own lives - with all the rewards and risks and, yes, anxieties that entails.