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  • 5 Aug 2025
    Photo of a cargo ship carrying freight containers for international trade
    Frank J. Garcia

    Coercion will Fail, but Trade will Endure

    The first year of Trump’s second term has been a chaotic one for trade, as for so much else. Before inauguration, the President had already threatened tariffs against Denmark to force a “sale” of Greenland. Within days of taking office, he began threatening or imposing illegal tariffs against Colombia, China, Mexico, Canada, all steel and […]

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  • 28 Feb 2022
    Frank Rudy Cooper, Gregory S. Parks

    Notorious B.I.G.’S “Ten Crack Commandments” and Donald Trump

    In his 1997 song, “Ten Crack Commandments,” The Notorious BIG offered some rules to the drug game: I’ve been in this game for years; it made me an animal.There’s rules to this shit; I wrote me a manual.A step-by-step booklet for you to get,Your game on track, not your wig pushed back. These rules have […]

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  • 11 Aug 2020
    Ronald Fricker

    COVID-19 Testing Doesn’t Cause Cases

    Stories help us understand and explain what we see in the world and they can be a powerful way of passing on knowledge. But misleading or incorrect stories can be confusing at best and harmful at worst. One story that is making the rounds today says that the number of COVID-19 cases is increasing only […]

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  • 13 Feb 2020
    Roderick P. Hart

    Bullies and the 2020 Election

    I don’t know who will win the 2020 presidential race, but I do know who will lose: the biggest bully on the block since Billy Franklin beat-up Joey Tarnower in the sixth-grade and ran-off with his lunch money.  The American people, I argue, are sick of political bullying and they’re going to put a stop […]

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  • 10 Feb 2020
    Oya Dursun-Özkanca

    NATO’s London Summit: Intra-alliance Opposition and Silver Linings

    Oya Dursun-Özkanca, author of 'Turkey–West Relations," out now, on the recent NATO Summit.

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  • 25 Mar 2019
    Fatemah Alzubairi

    The Rise of Authoritarianism under the Presidency of Trump

    Fatemah Alzubairi discusses her new book Colonialism, Neo-Colonialism, and Anti-Terrorism Law in the Arab World.

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  • 8 Aug 2017
    Robin Feldman

    How Big Pharma is Hindering Treatment of the Opioid Addiction Epidemic

    “A crippling problem.” “A total epidemic.” “A problem like nobody understands.” These are the words President Trump used to describe the opioid epidemic ravaging the country during a White House listening session in March. The percentage of people in the U.S. dying of drug overdoses has effectively quadrupled since 1999, and drug overdoses now rank as the leading cause of […]

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  • 11 May 2017
    Paul R. Verkuil

    “You’re Fired!”: Why Government Cannot Be Run Like a Business

    Paul Verkuil, author of Valuing Bureaucracy The Case for Professional Government (2017), on the recent Comey firing and the perils of running a government like a business.

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