A Smarter Approach to Cuba
President Trump will roll back major components of the Obama administration’s opening to Cuba with a new slate of travel and business restrictions, reports Reuters: Taking a tougher approach against...
View ArticleLow Turnout and Macron’s Partial Victory
The big news this Monday is that Emmanuel Macron has achieved his sweeping victory in French legislative elections. On paper, at least, he is now the youngest and most powerful French leader since...
View ArticleShow Me the Money!
Empty financial promises lie at the very core of the Paris Accords—a promise of $100 billion per year, paid indefinitely into the future by the developed world to developing countries as the price of...
View ArticleTrump Scandal Festers While Country Burns
The latest revelations in the ongoing Trump-Russia saga confirm what most sentient beings have long understood: that there is more than an adequate basis for investigations into the relationships...
View ArticleWhy Aren’t Greens More Worried About the Budget?
The latest report on the status of our entitlement programs shows that Medicare will run out of money in 2028 and Social Security just six years later—a reminder that our society is gliding...
View ArticleMacron Denounces Anti-Semitism
A clear message, and an important one, from French President Emmanuel Macron: Standing at a site from which thousands of French Jews were sent to their deaths during the Holocaust, President Emmanuel...
View ArticleThe Private Putin Meeting and Trump’s Legitimacy
At a dinner at the G20 summit, President Trump got up and walked over to Vladimir Putin for a one-on-one conversation, with only Putin’s interpreter present, that lasted for anywhere between a few...
View ArticlePresident Trump Sweats in Public
President Donald Trump’s latest ruminations, revealed in an article in the Washington Post, about pardoning himself, relatives, and close aides, are signs that the more he sees of the talented team...
View ArticleThe Grim Lessons of Charlie Gard
A U.K. death panel has forced parents to abandon hope for their baby’s life. The Wall Street Journal reports: The parents of Charlie Gard abandoned their legal fight to take the terminally ill...
View ArticleLook to the Private Sector, not Government, to Save Health Care
Jeff Bezos, now the world’s richest man, seems to have figured out that the next wave of great American fortunes are going to be made by people who figure out ways to cut the inefficiency out of the...
View ArticleTrump Delivers in Rust Belt
From the Wall Street Journal, a more important story than most of the media noise about White House dysfunction and Beltway shenanigans: Foxconn Technology Group, which helped turn China into the...
View ArticlePakistan’s Sharif Resigns
Pakistan’s Supreme Court today ruled ousted Prime Minsister Nawas Sharif today by ruling against him in a case involving undeclared assets. The ruling is the result of a probe launched against the PM...
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