Economics

Lewis Andrews It’s no secret that Americans are moving from blue states to red ones. According to recently released Census Bureau data, the five with the largest population loss to other states between July 2022 and July 2023 were California (-338,371), then New York (-216,778), Illinois (-83,839), New …

Over a century ago the Progressive leadership of the Democrats seceded philosophically from the Founding Principles of the American experiment.[i]  Rejecting the principles of natural law and unalienable individual rights, they adopted the statist relativism of Jeremy Bentham’s Utilitarianism and that of his philosophical heirs. They embraced the …

Republicans who claim to put country before party must rise up along with their Democratic colleagues to save the United States from Donald Trump. I am still at pains to internalize what sinister schemes Republican leaders in the House and Senate are concocting only to retain power, at …

Instead of hungering for power and party control, U.S. politicians should be hungering for solutions to the economic problems that vex the country. For U.S. Republicans and Democrats, default is a game of chicken where no one veers off course until the last minute. Rather than finding a …

Don Gill Among Western countries, France has often been the first to illustrate a mature understanding of India’s position on varied issues ranging from nuclear tests to the ongoing Russia-Ukraine War. French President Emmanuel Macron has accepted the invitation to be the chief guest at India’s Republic Day …

Pop culture understandings of the American military dominate the minds of most people. Whether it’s Hollywood making a war movie like Pearl Harbor with numerous historical inaccuracies or an unrealistic depiction of wartime conditions in The Hurt Locker, numerous narratives emerge that misrepresent the U.S. military. Pop culture …

Dana Masalimova As the Suez Canal becomes a new front in the Israel-Hamas conflict and the Red Sea is a “no-go zone” for most vessels, geopolitics is casting a shadow over the international trade landscape. With the shipping industry caught in the crossfire of an escalating geopolitical conflict, …

Eng. Saleem Al Batayneh In the symphony of global economies, Jordan recently played a dissonant note, echoing far beyond its borders. The World Bank’s decision to reclassify the country from a middle-high-income nation to a low-middle-income one on July 1 sent shockwaves through economic and social circles. This …

Gavin Bade As he girds for a rematch against Trump, the president’s ambitious trade agenda finally buckled under backlash from his own party. It may never recover. The high-profile reversal in San Francisco was just the most recent setback in Biden’s trade agenda. U.S. officials have also hit …