“There’s something really dangerous happening to us out there now. We’re slowly getting split up into two different Americas,” Bruce...

In the wake of the crisis of 2007-8, central banks became understandably more willing to try out new monetary policies. Quantitative...

On October 1, the Parliament of Catalonia defied Spain’s federal government by holding a referendum on Catalan independence. Catalonia,...

Since the turn of the century, Lao PDR has been on a bullet train to graduate from its “Least Developed Country Status” by 2020....

Rock is one of the most glorified music genres in Western society. By many, it’s considered to be not only more artistically creative,...

The United States announced on October 12th 2017 that it will withdraw from UNESCO at the end of 2018, because of claims deeming the...

In the context of day-to-day life, soap warrants minimal consideration. It is merely a material component involved in a greater process –...

The Kyrgyz Republic, a small mountainous country in Central Asia, has been through multiple violent revolutions, in both 2005 and...

America’s passenger rail is struggling. American rail is far slower, more expensive and less reliable than its global counterparts....

Last August, Tarek Amer, the polished head of the Central Bank of Egypt, received the IMF’s MENA Central Banker of the Year award. And he...

Gerrymandered maps have been overturned in the past for racial discrimination, but what about partisan advantage? In June 2018, SCOTUS...

Special elections have become a hot topic after the election of President Trump, but what exactly are they? And what happened during the...

While provision of welfare services, such as healthcare, is one of a government’s foremost responsibilities to its citizens, it can, at...

On November 8th, 2016, India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, announced the demonetization of the Indian economy. This move, ostensibly...

Cooperative development provides major benefits over traditional corporations. It focused on building cooperative enterprises and...

The Nobel Peace Prize Committee recently bestowed the 2017 prize upon the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), an...

For several years, Hong Kong has been a city in political turmoil, its population torn between identifying with Chinese authorities and...

In Aden, South Yemen’s largest city and the country’s most prominent port, Yemeni flags are increasingly hard to come by; instead, the...

Up until recent years, India-Middle East relations were largely driven by economic considerations. In the latter half of the 20th...

President Trump’s June 21st rally in Cedar Rapids, Iowa was predictably similar to previous rallies he gave as a candidate and continues...