The inauguration of Joe Biden as 46th President of the United States promises a more competent and less contentious approach to foreign affairs than was the case with his predecessor Donald Trump....
No one imagined that 2020 would represent one of the greatest challenges for humanity in recent decades. The arrival of Covid-19 destabilized all sectors of the economy and, although many have...
Vox’s Alex Ward, when reporting on the Beirut explosion early last month, noted in passing that Lebanon’s post-civil war economic policy “was to attract investors and tourists, and bolster its...
In 1972, the Indian state of Maharashtra was stricken with a drought that decimated crop yields and put 25 million Indians at risk of starvation. After years of plentiful rainfall and experimentation...
The current financial crisis has been attributed by Maduro to the Venezuelan opposition and foreign actors, including the United States. It is common to hear government officials speak of the...
In the early 2000s, Venezuela was living an extensive oil bonanza. With Chávez in power, expenses were also increased when granting bonds to part of the population, making investments in projects...
When Dominic Raab took up his position as Brexit Secretary, following David Davis’s sulky resignation, I thought he couldn’t possibly do a worse job than his predecessor who seemed to have...
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the onset of the 2008 financial crisis, and Trump is taking advantage of it to claim credit for the current state of the U.S. economy — and on the other side...
The last few years have been a tumultuous time in Greek politics, especially after the debt “crisis” of 2010 and the subsequent EU/IMF bailout. Protests and riots on the streets of Athens have...
The Tea Party movement on the Right in the United States has gathered a lot of press over the past year or so, a populist protest against the Obama administration. Yet, at its core, it conceals its...