Experts assess the way ahead for China
China will stage its largest annual political and legislative events – the “two sessions” – starting on Thursday. China Daily takes a closer look at a series of likely hot topics and catchphrases during the sessions. Editor’s note: The eyes…
Trump, Cruz and Rubio tax plans are indecent proposals | Editorial
While we are all amused by the vulgar pie fight that is the Republican presidential field, it’s easy to overlook the taxonomy of pain their candidates would impose on the American electorate. The three leading candidates from the party of…
Interview: Labor Historian Nick Salvatore on Eugene Debs, Bernie Sanders, and Socialism in Modern American Politics
2016 has been a banner year for socialism in American political discourse. In January, 43 percent of respondents to a Bloomberg/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll, taken of likely Democratic caucus-goers, said they would use the word ‘socialist’ describe themselves. Recently,…
Hillary Clinton and Wall Street Big Money – perfect together
WASHINGTON, February 27, 2016 – Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has been criticized for putting forth contrasting positions concerning her relationships with Wall Street bankers. She says, if elected, she will end Wall Street’s irresponsible behavior, which, she claims, has…
A World Deep in Debt
Debt, debt, debt… debt is kind of like a snowflakes. A single snowflake is a pretty star, but one quintillion of them is a horrendous mess. In the same way, most individual debts are reasonable and justifiable, but when debt…
What Happened When China Knocked on Apple’s Backdoor
Apple’s standoff over the FBI’s demand to crack open the cellphone used by San Bernardino killer Syed Rizwan Farook is more than a quintessentially American debate over the limits of privacy in an era of terrorism. It has also shone…
The Government’s Decades-Long Battle Over Encryption
The FBI wants to crack open a mass shooter’s iPhone, and Apple has refused to cooperate. It’s a story for the 21st century, but the roots go back a whole generation earlier, to the 1990s when the FBI and other…
5 Of Trump’s Many, Many Terrible Business Failures He’s Not Bragging About
Trump’s Business Failures Demonstrate Why He Should NEVER Be President “Make America great again?” It’s funny how the Trump campaign has the audacity to suggest that moving forward rather than backward is a horrible concept. Even more hilarious? Trump’s business…
Big Banks: Still Too Big To Fail?
Big Banks: Still Too Big To Fail? by Fran Reed, FactSet A surprising new voice has emerged in the “too big to fail” debate: a Federal Bank Reserve President. Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari this week publicly advocated for breaking…
9 Key Points About Trump’s Income Taxes (And Many More Questions)
Donald Trump, challenged again to release his tax returns, offers a nonsense excuse for keeping them secret. But worse than that, the national political reporters covering Trump’s presidential campaign have, yet again, missed big, obvious stories about his conduct and…