In my last column, I explored the various reasons why states can become overcommitted yet unable to extricate themselves from costly…
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According to public opinion polls, 20 years after its introduction, the euro is highly popular, with 64% of eurozone citizens supporting…
f NATO were a listed stock, would now be a good time to short it? According to the New York Times, U.S. President Donald Trump has told his…
Many of the headlines coming out of Detroit this week during the North American International Auto Show will be about electric vehicles —…
The 116th session of the U.S. Congress began last week. Not surprisingly, it attracted a fair bit of media attention, focusing mostly on…
When data.gov launched in May of 2009, the site seemed to fulfill a vision of openness and rebuilding trust that defined President Obama’s…
The move of President Donald Trump to visit Baghdad on Wednesday is a small, good one, amid a week of calamitous decisions. The press will…
When George HW Bush was laid to rest last week, the encomiums appropriately remarked on his general decency and competence, which tended to…
In a recent op-ed, conservative writer Erik Erickson argued that the U.S. government should support the “next Pinochets” to create more…