The Disastrous Consequences of China’s One Child Policy It may be too late to fix the damage
WASHINGTON – “ one child mandate is the single greatest social-policy error in human history.” — Nicholas Eberstadt, political...
Category: Politics
If The US Enters A Recession, Clinton In A Tough Spot The most recent GDP numbers indicate a slow down. And the economy may get worse in 2016
WASHINGTON – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton just declared that the Obama administration deserves an “A” when it comes...
Political Change in Argentina? The Peronist candidate for President did not win. He is forced to a run-off with a credible conservative
WASHINGTON – American politics is beginning to look like a Hollywood farce. The Marx Brothers are in charge. They...
The Republicans Are Immature And Hopelessly Divided Leading the House Republicans looks like Mission Impossible for Paul Ryan. Meanwhile, Donald Trump leads in the polls
WASHINGTON – I really like Paul Ryan; but I am skeptical about his ability to bring order, cohesion and...
The Real Benghazi Story Is The False Explanation Of the Tragedy, Motivated By Politics Former Secretary of State Clinton may be responsible for a major blunder. But the Obama White House deliberately introduced a false explanation in order to protect the President running for re-election
WASHINGTON – The much-anticipated appearance by Hillary Clinton, former Secretary of State and now leading Democratic Party presidential contender,...
Strange Conversations While In Africa Talking to strangers, you learn what they believe in
LUSAKA (Zambia) – During business trips in far away places it is relatively easy to talk to strangers who...
Commodities Exporting Countries in Deep Crisis From Brazil to Australia there will be a lot of suffering
JOHANNESBURG (South Africa) – Renowned oil expert Daniel Yergin recently observed that the collapse of crude oil prices is...
Anti-Immigrant Europe Needs Immigrants Most European countries are facing a demographic crisis, with population declines
WASHINGTON – I recently read a well crafted article about immigration in both Europe and the USA. It pointed...
WSJ To Pope Francis: Our Prosperity Stems From Freedom Freedom is at the foundation of America's wealth. And freedom is given to all men by God
WASHINGTON – Here is how The Wall Street Journal, the unofficial protector of American capitalism, greets Pope Francis on...
Greece: Anti-Austerity Tsipras Will Implement Austerity Political confusion has been added to economic disaster and fiscal nightmare
WASHINGTON – The sovereign people of Greece, in their wisdom, just decided to give another chance to Alexis Tsipras...