The opportunities are huge, but the clock is ticking for the UPU and USPS to be central to the global e-commerce boom There is an international e-commerce boom coming. It will soon be common for small packages to be sent anywhere in the world in three days or less, at …
Read More »Is Joe Biden Really the New Jimmy Carter?
Barry Eichengreen It has become fashionable of late to compare US President Joe Biden in 2023 to Jimmy Carter in 1979. Just as the events of 1979 doomed Carter’s re-election hopes the following year, developments in 2023 are said to have effectively sunk Biden’s bid for a second …
Read More »The real reason people are flocking to red states
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 …
Read More »The Myth of an Apolitical Military: A Call to Action
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 …
Read More »The Charge Sheet Against Netanyahu
13 reasons why Benjamin Netanyahu must go before he causes further irreversible harm to Israel. Regardless of how the Israel-Hamas war is concluded, no one in Israel should ever forget how, under his watch for nearly 15 consecutive years, Benjamin Netanyahu pushed Israel downhill toward the abyss. Despite …
Read More »Al Batayneh: Jordan’s sub-zero elections
Eng. Saleem Al Batayneh In the aftermath of the events in Gaza, it becomes imperative for us to contemplate the repercussions of what transpired and what may unfold! The Jordanian situation is not isolated from the broader context of regional issues. The pivotal question before us is: Can …
Read More »China’s Sheen of Civility Masks a Dreadful Reality
Anne Pierce Despite all the signs, the U.S. still does not understand that China does not take “de-escalation” seriously. The sheen of civility with which China opportunistically presents itself masks a dreadful reality. It is illogical to assume that a dystopian communist surveillance state with vast imperial ambitions …
Read More »The Return of Ideology
The temptations of ideological thinking were not banished to the twentieth century. When the Chicago Black Lives Matter account (@BLMChi) shared a post on X celebrating the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, many on the Left reacted in shock. What did protesting police violence against Black Americans …
Read More »Al-Makahleh: Impacts of Palestinian-Israeli conflict on US foreign policy in 2024
Dr. Shehab Al Makahleh As the world watches the heartbreaking scenes unfold in the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the question looms large: How will these tumultuous events shape the future of the US administration in 2024? The complex dynamics of the Middle East, combined with the intricacies of American …
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