December 15, 2011
Defense and SecurityMembers of the U.S. Air Force board a plane at al-Asad air base in Iraq before flying to the United States. (Mohammed Ameen/courtesy Reuters) I woke up this morning to an email inbox full of news al…
February 4, 2019
Election 2020Someone had to be first. When it comes to the 2020 presidential campaign, that person is John Delaney. He’s certainly no Johnny-come-lately to the race. He declared his candidacy back on July 28, 201…
May 7, 2018
MexicoEnrique Pena Nieto was supposed to be the Institutional Revolutionary Party's savior. But instead, the ruling party looks to lose in the upcoming elections with candidate Jose Antonio Meade. Yet the PRI's political model will live on in the form of MORENA's Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
August 14, 2017
IsraelA Palestinian-American activist's 2012 tweet unleashes a firestorm. But Zionism, good or bad, is not that weird.
March 6, 2017
Budget, Debt, and DeficitsAn applied economics question: A country with no independent monetary policy, undergoing a ten-year slump that has reduced its real GDP on average by over a percentage point a year, needs to do a …
September 30, 2016
IsraelReading selections for the weekend of September 30, 2016.
January 20, 2012
TradeDebt and Deficits Progress in U.S. Household Deleveraging A report from the McKinsey Global Institute examined the deleveraging progress in the United States, the UK, and Spain, and offers a comp…
November 16, 2009
Budget, Debt, and DeficitsThe United States is rapidly approaching its legal debt limit of just over $12 trillion. As of September 2009, U.S. debt stood at $11.9 trillion. As these charts indicate, Congress has raised the …
December 5, 2006
AmericasOver the last eighteen months Presidential elections occurred in twelve Latin American countries. While Hugo Chavez and his anti-American tirades grab most of the headlines, these elections actually …
October 9, 2015
IraqNatasha Lennard examines the altering dynamics between Turkey and the European Union brought about by the refugee crisis. Read the press release announcing that the Tunisian National Dialogue Quarte…
