It can feel very rewarding emotionally to blame Mexicans (and other foreigners) for one’s economic plight. It is far less satisfying to yell at robots.
Economic Reason Returning to Turkey?
The surprisingly strong interest rate hike in Turkey makes a recession even more likely.
Trump and the Minimum Wage: How to Trade with Mexico
The Trump trade deal with Mexico is, in a smaller way for now, another of those rare Nixon in China moments. It has the potential to alter the arc of contemporary history.
Party Vs. Faith: China Drafts Restrictions for All Religions
UN and U.S. criticism put pressure on the Islamic world to speak out against China’s actions to rein in Islam at home.
Republicans and the US’s Heavily Managed Democracy
Can Republicans’ efforts to tilt U.S. democracy toward feudalism be stopped?
Trump Vs. the U.S. Separation of Powers
How it has taken a political novice in the White House only a year and a half to hollow out the centuries-old system of the U.S. separation of powers.
Boorish Johnson, Domestic Terrorist
Do the disgusting comments Boris Johnson hurled at Theresa May finally mark the end of Boris Johnson’s career in British politics? Might emigration to Trump’s America be his only option?
The State of US High-Speed Rail
The fledgling network does not compare well to other countries with high-speed trains.
UK: Aimlessly Aiding and Abetting Saudi Arabia?
New report questions Saudi Arabia’s utility for Britain.























