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Jul 7, 2025
As Washington consumes itself with the One Big Beautiful Bill and as the Second Season of the Trump Show launches a fragrance line of perfumes and cologne, it’s an opportune time...
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Jun 26, 2025
The 12-day air war between Israel and Iran, with a brief cameo bombing by the United States on three of Iran’s nuclear enrichment and weapons sites, appears to be coming to an...
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Jun 7, 2025
The cuts to federal research funding were rapid and drastic but there's a lot of money out there.
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May 20, 2025
Far too often, the stories that dominate our discussions are not the ones that will matter most over the arc of time. The drama of “if it bleeds, it leads” remains the most...
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May 12, 2025
Whilst the Second Season of the Trump Show continues to break ratings records, elsewhere in the world two events of lasting import are unfolding: one is the election of a new pope to...
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May 2, 2025
It’s been said that it’s lonely at the top. It should now be said of the first 100 days of the Second Season of the Trump Show that, after all the drama, what’s left is a...
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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...
Jul 7, 2025As Washington consumes itself with the One Big Beautiful Bill and as the Second Season of the Trump Show launches a fragrance line of perfumes and cologne, it’s an opportune time...
Jun 26, 2025The 12-day air war between Israel and Iran, with a brief cameo bombing by the United States on three of Iran’s nuclear enrichment and weapons sites, appears to be coming to an...
Jun 7, 2025The cuts to federal research funding were rapid and drastic but there's a lot of money out there.
May 20, 2025Far too often, the stories that dominate our discussions are not the ones that will matter most over the arc of time. The drama of “if it bleeds, it leads” remains the most...
May 12, 2025Whilst the Second Season of the Trump Show continues to break ratings records, elsewhere in the world two events of lasting import are unfolding: one is the election of a new pope to...
May 2, 2025It’s been said that it’s lonely at the top. It should now be said of the first 100 days of the Second Season of the Trump Show that, after all the drama, what’s left is a...
Apr 25, 2025There 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...
Apr 21, 2025It’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.
Apr 14, 2025In 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,...
Apr 5, 2025With the announcement of draconian tariffs, the U.S. and the world are facing the prospects of some very rough and tumultuous economic times ahead.
Mar 12, 2025We 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...
Feb 21, 2025The prominence of Elon Musk in the Trump administration has been one of the most striking and unusual aspects of this now month-old presidency.
Feb 17, 2025This 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...
Feb 10, 2025While 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...
Jan 23, 2025So 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,”...
Jan 22, 2025So 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...