Once the white gold of the natural resource world, catalyst of Caribbean war, and provider of luxurious European consumption, sugar still has its hold over American protectionist policy in some embarrassingly predictable ways…

After an inhospitable welcome at Columbia University and a defense of Iranian intentions in the halls of the UN, it was up to Charlie Rose to coax a straight answer from the puzzling Persian President and his schizophrenic vacillations between coherence and crusade. Neither Rose nor Ahmadinejad disappoint…