Bio
Matthew Hennessey is deputy editorial features editor at The Wall Street Journal and former managing editor of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research.
From 2007–2009 he was assistant editor of Carnegie Council's Policy Innovations online magazine and the Council's staff writer.
Featured Work
JUL 23, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Fuel Costs Clip Airline Wings
The rising price of jet fuel has the global airline industry struggling to cut costs and stay aloft, but it also incentivizes the development of ...
JUL 18, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Is the Celtic Tiger Dead?
Nearly twenty-five years of Irish economic growth came to an end in June. Now policymakers must scramble to prevent a return to the hopeless, stagnant ...
JUL 8, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Preserving PEPFAR
President George W. Bush is fighting to preserve his controversial AIDS relief initiative, which has supported life-saving antiretroviral treatments for more than 1.7 million people since 2004.
JUN 24, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Ready or Not, Here Comes the World
More than one country that is about to host a prestigious sporting event is facing international criticism over human rights and diplomacy.
JUN 20, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Big Beer Brewing
Many beer lovers fear that industry consolidation will lead to homogenization -- a process some deride as "lagerization."
JUN 11, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Diplomatically Quiet on Zimbabwe
Matthew Hennessey interviews Patrick Bond, director of the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa, on post-election unrest in Zimbabwe ...
APR 3, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: A Wolf in Monk's Clothing?
He has reverent followers around the world, but inside China the Dalai Lama is not universally loved. I sat down recently with a number of ...
MAR 3, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Let's Make a New Deal
Have the Democratic candidates pandered to voter perceptions with their calls to renegotiate NAFTA?
FEB 21, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Chess Takes World
When people think of chess, they usually think of Russia. But chess excellence has now gone global: The current World Champion is from India, and ...
JAN 9, 2008 • Article
Policy Innovations Digital Magazine (2006-2016): Briefings: Pakistan's Simmering Unrest
Since taking power in a 1999 military coup, Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has struggled with the same question as his predecessors: How to keep a tangled ...