BLOG Post #159: China From the Inside Out 28 Mar 201727 Mar 2017 China’s Moment? Who would have imagined that in the week of Donald Trump’s inauguration, China’s President Xi Jinping would tell an international audience that while one major country seems ready…
APB The Media Fails on Climate Change 27 Mar 2017 Why are Americans at one and the same time concerned about climate change but uninformed about it--enough so that it is not a high priority? One reason, reported by The Guardian…
APB Foreign Policy: A Family Affair 22 Mar 201721 Mar 2017 The flip side of the Trump administration’s downgrading of the State Department is the insertion of Trump’s daughter and son-in-law into key foreign policy positions. Perhaps the failure to appoint…
BLOG Post #158: Kicking the Can Down the Road: Tillerson in Beijing 21 Mar 201720 Mar 2017 Just when it seemed that the North Korea nuclear issue might cause a US-China collision, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit to Beijing brought a backing away. News reports rather…
APB Tillerson on North Korea 16 Mar 2017 In a rare public statement while in Japan, Secretary of State Tillerson said: “I think it’s important to recognize that the political and diplomatic efforts of the past 20 years…
BLOG Post #157: Trumpcare: An International Embarrassment 16 Mar 201715 Mar 2017 As I noted in my APB the other day (“The Freedom to be Unhealthy”), Paul Ryan justifies the current Trumpcare bill as promoting freedom—the right not to have to buy…
APB The Freedom to be Unhealthy 13 Mar 201713 Mar 2017 Here is the real cost of "freedom" in the US today: The Congressional Budget Office has just published its estimate of what Trumpcare will really cost: 24 million more people without…
BLOG Post #156: What Is Rex Tillerson Up To? 11 Mar 201710 Mar 2017 You say the photo accompanying this post isn't of Rex Tillerson?That's right; it's because Tillerson never answers press questions, so various State Department employees are having to stand in for…
BLOG Post # 155: Mad About THAAD: An Untimely Decision 8 Mar 20177 Mar 2017 The US decision, supported by the South Korean government, to deploy an antimissile system known as THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) may be one of the most thoughtless strategic…
BLOG Post #154: Switching Sides: America and Russia in US Public Opinion 6 Mar 20176 Mar 2017 Once upon a time in the US you could fairly predict what Americans believe about Russia. Their beliefs would parallel their views of the USSR during the Cold War, with…
APB Serving the People and Making Money 3 Mar 2017 A report from China puts the total net worth of the roughly 3,000 members of its legislature--delegates to the National People's Congress and alternates--at about $500 billion. As more entrepreneurs…
BLOG Post #153: The Dirt Keeps Piling On 2 Mar 20176 Mar 2017 At a news conference on February 20, Donald Trump said: “I have nothing to do with Russia. To the best of my knowledge, no person that I deal with does.” …
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