Fifteen years after George W. Bush declared that Iraq, Iran, and North Korea formed “an axis of evil,” Donald Trump, in his maiden address to the United Nations, denounced Iran and North Korea in simi ...More
EJ Insight2017-09-29
The US is in the midst of a political meltdown, unable to manage a domestic economic agenda or a coherent foreign policy. The White House is in turmoil; Congress is paralyzed; and the world is looking ...More
EJ Insight2017-08-14
President Donald Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from the Paris climate agreement is not just dangerous for the world; it is also sociopathic. Without remorse, Trump is willfully inflicting ha ...More
EJ Insight2017-06-08
Nearly 100 days after US President Donald Trump took office, he and his commerce secretary, Wilbur Ross, continue to commit an economic fallacy that first-year economics students learn to avoid. They ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-21
Legend holds that King Canute brought his flatterers to the sea to show them that even a king could not command the ocean waves, that the laws of nature are more powerful than the decrees of men. So p ...More
EJ Insight2017-04-03
Never in recent history has a change of leadership attracted as much attention and speculation as Donald Trump's rise to the US presidency. What this change signifies and what it portends requires unr ...More
EJ Insight2017-03-02
The key political divide in the United States is not between parties or states; it is between generations. The millennial generation (those aged 18-35) voted heavily against Donald Trump and will form ...More
EJ Insight2017-02-03
American foreign policy is at a crossroads. The United States has been an expanding power since its start in 1789. It battled its way across North America in the 19th century and gained global dominan ...More
EJ Insight2016-12-30
The United States needs to shift its spending from war to education, from CIA-backed regime change to a new Global Fund for Education (GFE). With hundreds of millions of children around the world not ...More
EJ Insight2016-09-30
Syria’s civil war is the most dangerous and destructive crisis on the planet. Since early 2011, hundreds of thousands have died, about 10 million Syrians have been displaced, Europe has been convulsed ...More
EJ Insight2016-08-31
The Brexit vote was a triple protest: against surging immigration, City of London bankers, and European Union institutions, in that order. It will have major consequences. Donald Trump’s campaign for ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-27
In 2015, around 5.9 million children under the age of five, almost all in developing countries, died from easily preventable or treatable causes. And up to 200 million young children and adolescents d ...More
EJ Insight2016-06-01
The diplomats have done their job, concluding the Paris climate agreement in December. And political leaders gathered last week at the United Nations to sign the new accord. But implementation is sure ...More
EJ Insight2016-04-28
Barack Obama’s visit to Cuba is the first by a US president since Calvin Coolidge went in 1928. American investors, expat Cubans, tourists, scholars, and scam artists will follow in Obama’s wake. Norm ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-23
The United States, the European Union and Western-led institutions such as the World Bank repeatedly ask why the Middle East can’t govern itself. The question is asked honestly but without much self-a ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-21
China is now experiencing what Japan went through a generation ago: a marked slowdown in economic growth after demands by the United States that it restrict its exports. In the late 1980s and early 19 ...More
EJ Insight2015-10-20
The Greek catastrophe commands the world’s attention for two reasons. First, we are deeply distressed to watch an economy collapse before our eyes, with bread lines and bank queues not seen since the ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-13
Sovereign-debt crises such as the one in Greece can be resolved only through bold steps by both debtor and creditor. The debtor needs a fresh start through a debt write-off; the creditor must find a w ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-07
After months of wrangling, the showdown between Greece and its European creditors has come down to a standoff over pensions and taxes. Greece is refusing to acquiesce to demands by its creditors that ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-17
Ours is a world of impunity. Allegations of corruption swarmed around FIFA for decades, culminating in mass indictments of officials of the international soccer federation last week. Yet FIFA presiden ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-04
