The republican party, or the GOP, Grand Old Party, is in a state of transformation. The principles that have defined the party for decades are limited government and local control. During the Trump presidency, the federal government expanded, the military grew, and old republican principles were abandoned. Trump is the leading candidate to represent the…
Not much came out of the recent meeting in California between presidents Biden and Xi Jinping. Both viewed their bilateral summit, adjacent to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting, as an opportunity to prevent the difficult relationship from spiraling into an even more contentious confrontation. There are certainly no signs that China intends to cease…
U.S. companies’ DEI, or diversity, equity and inclusion, efforts lost momentum in 2023 after the Supreme Court’s affirmative action ruling in June. The U.S. Supreme Court ended affirmative action in higher education; a long-awaited decision addressing the legality of race-conscious affirmative action in college admissions programs. The 2023 slowdown of DEI hiring is a sharp…
Javier Milei, a libertarian economist became Argentina’s president in the recent election, vowing in his victory speech to do away with government corruption and turn the country into a global power. Running on the La Libertad Avanza, Liberty Advances, platform, he beat Sergio Massa, the Peronist establishment candidate and current economy minister, 55.7% to 44.3%. …
2024 presidential election campaign is already on-going and at this point, it looks like it will be a repeat of the 2020 election between Biden and Trump. Eventually this period in U.S. politics will come to an end. It is remarkable that these two candidates are likely selected again. There are many key issues that…
