It seems that the two recent independence referenda have largely collapsed.  One was in Iraqi Kurdistan, with President Massound Barzani hav...

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Well, the actual headline on the front page of the Washington Post below the fold today reads, "Economy shows strong growth, could prov...

Corey Robin is very insightful about a lot of things.  I think his take on conservatism, that the thread running through it is opposition to...

The once-every five years Chinese Communist Party conference is now over.  It appears that Xi Jinping has not identified an heir to himself ...

Kimberly Clausing and Edward Kleinbard have each written some interesting papers on transfer pricing. Here they team up on a different topi...

The largest single one day decline in percentage terms of the Dow-Jones average (22.6%) happened 30 years ago today, on October 19, 1987.  I...

A half century ago today on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, Wisconsin was the first seriously violent demonstration against t...

At this moment I am watching live on Bloomberg News the opening speech by President/Party General Secretary/Chairman of the Military Commiss...

The central Iraqi government based in Baghdad has conquered oil-rich and ethnically-mixed Kirkuk from its recent Kurdish rulers, who hoped t...

A couple of days ago, the New York Times published an opinion piece by Jerry Lembcke " The Myth of the Spitting Antiwar Protester ....

Justin Fishel and Mary Bruce covers Trump’s dismantling of Obamacare: The White House announced Thursday night that the administration wil...

I wish to be very precise here on this extremely important matter. President Trump has not "decertified" the JCPOA Iran nuclear de...

I note with some interest the debate over whether it is ethically necessary to refer to slaveholders as “enslavers” in order to convey our ...

The latest from the IMF is a must read for progressives even if it runs contrary to the nonsense coming out of the White House: At the glo...