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Apr 25, 2025
There is an emerging global narrative that democracy is imperiled, and that with the seeming retreat of the United States as the arbiter of the economic and political order, a period...
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Apr 21, 2025
It’s Passover and Easter week in the Western world, and whether you are a believer or not, it seems fitting to pause for a moment and consider the wider arc of history.
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Apr 14, 2025
In the space of a week, global stock markets sold off 15–20% on the announcement of U.S. tariffs and then rallied more than 10% when Trump announced a pause of reciprocal tariffs,...
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Apr 5, 2025
With the announcement of draconian tariffs, the U.S. and the world are facing the prospects of some very rough and tumultuous economic times ahead.
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Mar 12, 2025
We are entering a golden age of tariffs. Once upon a time, tariffs were among the most divisive aspects of American and global politics. Then came the end of World War II and 75...
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Mar 4, 2025
One of the great advantages of traveling through the world is to get some perspective. I’m just back from Kazakhstan and Doha, where I gave some talks and met a plethora of peeps,...
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Feb 21, 2025
The prominence of Elon Musk in the Trump administration has been one of the most striking and unusual aspects of this now month-old presidency.
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Feb 17, 2025
This week in Trumplandia, the hue and cry of “Constitutional crisis” got significantly louder. I touched on this in last week’s column, but it deserves further examination. At...
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Feb 10, 2025
While I don’t plan on spending the next four years writing about Trump, Trump, Trump, for the moment, it does seem culturally relevant, to say the least. And these first weeks have...
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Jan 23, 2025
So here we are, the beginning of the second Trump administration in the United States, January 20, 2025. In a rather subdued inaugural address, Trump promised a new “golden age,”...
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Jan 22, 2025
So here we are, the beginning of the second Trump administration in the United States, January 20, 2025. In a rather subdued inaugural address, Trump promised a new “golden...