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February 4, 2013

Why Manufacturing Really Matters: Gary Pisano and Willy Shih on Innovation

If there is any consensus in the debate over how to revitalize the American economy, it is over innovation. Innovation, we can all readily concur, is the only way for an advanced economy like the Uni…

An employee works on the production of high-power semiconductors at a manufacturing plant of Swiss engineering group ABB on May 30, 2012 (Michael Buholzer/Courtesy Reuters).

November 29, 2021

China
The Uighurs and the Question of Muslim Solidarity

Facing genocide by China, the Uighurs, who are Muslim, benefit from near zero solidarity from their co-religionists.

May 19, 2009

China
World Trade

World trade has contracted sharply as global demand has collapsed. U.S., European, and Chinese demand for world goods dried up in the last quarter of 2008 and first quarter of 2009. But optimism is…

World Trade

June 14, 2022

United States
Happy Birthday to the U.S. Army!

The U.S. Army turns 247 years old today.  

Two soldiers hold a U.S. flag behind a soldier administering an oath to another solider on a beach.

July 12, 2018

Israel
The Sad Fate of the Socialist International

Once upon a time, the Socialist International was an extraordinary organization. Founded in 1951 as a successor to various prior socialist groups, it was staunchly democratic and anti-Communist, and …