Under-reported stories from around the world on the military industrial complex, the global class war, and doomsday.
Issues / Labor, Trade, & Finance
The very tools that Erdogan has used to make himself into a sort of modern day Ottoman sultan are backfiring.
Half of Pentagon spending goes to contractors, the military budget is set to skyrocket, and the Trump administration is peddling arms all over the world.
Between the new restrictions and the travel warning, Cuba’s burgeoning private sector has already felt what Cubans call "the Trump effect."
Fresh off an Asia trip where he showed surprising deference to dictators, Trump looks ready to start a renewed assault on critics at home.
When companies do business in a regulatory vacuum, they make their own rules. And from the U.S. to Zambia, many governments are only too happy to let them.
The UK's Conservative government is weak, the Labor Party is rising, and EU members are out for blood.
The only immigration "crisis" is the cascading assault on civil liberties — and human rights — by racists and immigration restrictionists.
The evidence is in: The "adults in the room" at the White House have enabled Trump's worst impulses, not checked them.
Ireland is a small player, but it has much to teach its neighbors now suffering extremism, division, and debt.