On October 9, Harvard professor of economics Claudia Goldin was awakened by a phone call from Sweden. In the early hours of the morning, she was informed that she had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics...
The most recent coup in Sudan, in which the military took control, has sparked a discussion about the barriers to democracy of an unstable government.
The coup was apparently initiated in an effort...
The Chinese tech sector's decade of unfettered, explosive growth is being threatened by a barrage of regulatory guidelines published by the Chinese Cyberspace Administration. These guidelines target the...
As lawmakers continue to push President Biden’s infrastructure bill and $3.5 trillion social spending plan through Congress, many details of Biden’s agenda remain up in the air. While the $3.5 trillion...
Making political statements on the public stage has been a staple of American history. From Colin Kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem, to The Chicks proclaiming that they were “ashamed the...
The United States Senate was created to give states an equal voice in government and protect the minority opinion. Compared to the United States House of Representatives, the Senate is less formal, more...
What do the United States, Japan, China, Germany, France, United Kingdom, and Italy have in common?
Citizens in these countries go every day without realizing the immense power their country holds on...
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the world’s most-wanted terrorist leader, killed himself by detonating a suicide vest during a U.S. military operation in northwest Syria on October 26. Announcing himself the...
The most recent government shutdown, which began on December 21, 2018 and continued until January 25, 2019, was the longest in U.S. history and left 380,000 U.S. government employees without pay. Now,...
On August 2, 2018, the Republican primary for Governor of Tennessee ended with the outsider candidate with no political experience on top. Diane Black, being the first female Chair of the House...
In approaching the end of any president’s first year in office, it is customary to look back and evaluate the accomplishments of what is traditionally the most productive year of their term–especially...
There is perhaps no greater success story in developmental economics over the last half century than that of China. In 1976, China was in disarray after being ravaged by the collective failures of the...
