Pete Buttigieg won the Iowa caucuses. Bernie Sanders won the New Hampshire primary. Somebody else is going to win the South Carolina. Are the Democrats in disarray? No. The primary system is working as it was meant to. We just haven’t seen a primary season with no front-runner in a while, so Democrats and the […]
Ending The Draft Helped Create The Horror Of Endless War
“Be careful what you wish for, you may receive it,” wrote author W.W. Jacobs in the classic horror story The Monkey’s Paw in 1902. Nearly 50 years after military conscription, or the draft, ended in the United States in 1973, we can see that that admonition is a salient one. Opponents of the draft got […]
India Sanctions in Shadows in Trade War Expansion
Despite cordial appearances, the trade war between India and the U.S. continues. Trump Trade War Against China Gets Scrutiny President Donald Trump’s trade war with the People’s Republic of China has received much scrutiny from economists, pundits, and the media. After all, China is the world’s second largest economy in terms of Gross Domestic Product […]