Americas

Will Mexico Go Down the Populist Route in 2018?

In less than a year time Mexico will have its presidential election and the country may well elect leftist Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO)...

Trump at the UN: Bellicosity and its Costs

To say Donald Trump's UN speech last week was an embarrassment for his country is to understate the case; to say it made the...

President Trump’s UN Speech: Where Idealism Meets Pragmatism

Last week saw the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly where world leaders descended upon New York to give their customary speeches, condemn...

The Perils of President CEO: 7 Reasons Why Business Icons Don’t Make Great Presidents

Let us first start with this declaration: this is not a diatribe against Donald Trump. Rather, it is a tsk, tsk, tsk to the...

Cooperation, Not Sanctions, Will Make America Great Again

Someone needs to tell President Donald Trump that his own U.S. Treasury Department chief, Steve Mnuchin, mass purveyor of reckless and short-sighted economic trade...

Trump the Terrible

For those living in the northern climes of our great country, the season is just beginning to change.  Summer has lost its worst heat. ...

The Scourge That Is Identity Politics

The August 12 Charlottesville rally, organized by white nationalists, was one of the biggest white-pride events that included some bizarre chants and which culminated...

U.S. Student Debt Crisis

Over the past decades, the average debt for students receiving their bachelors has tripled. A recent report by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau shows...

The Real Estate Cold War: Russia and America Fighting Over “Parity”

This past week the United States informed the Russian Federation that it was going to immediately close the Russian consulate in San Francisco as...

Charlottesville: Listening to Gandhi

Unabated hatred, race-mongering and vicious violence which characterized Charlottesville must open up new avenues of justice seeking. Can Mahatma Gandhi, the father of the...

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