It’s a running joke across many college campuses that economics is the “dismal science”. For those who are […]
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The Western world breathed a sigh of relief after the triumph of the young independent centrist Emmanuel Macron […]
Empty shelves in Venezuela Lenin Moreno’s April victory in the Ecuadorian presidential election must have brought sighs of […]
Coco the Alaskan malamute poses with her eight new iPhone 7s. For the past two decades, China’s growth […]
Aziz Dyab, like millions of his countrymen, was on the run. On the run from a repressive regime, […]
Henry Kissinger, the great American statesman of the 70’s, once wrote, “One of the asymmetries of history, is […]
At the outset of World War II, Adolf Hitler and Joseph Stalin approved the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the famous non-aggression pact that divided Europe into German and Soviet spheres of influence. The treaty was predicated on the assumption that the two great powers would achieve preeminence on the European continent, and following the war, the Soviet Union retained control over several states that it had been formally awarded by the pact.
In 2011, a sparsely populated Central-East Asian nation rose to international prominence as the fastest growing economy in […]
In democratic societies, the relationship between candidates and voters boils down to the more-than-familiar concept of courtship. Often, […]