by editor | May 20, 2019 | Top Page Links
As with Africa’s widespread early adoption of mobile digital banking, so with free trade agreements, it would appear. Long a laggard in global deals and regional governance, the vast, diverse continent is now setting the pace with a pioneering free-trade pact...
by editor | May 20, 2019 | Top Page Links
Yes, you read that correctly: abolishing U.S. federal estate tax, commonly derided as the “death tax,” would help preserve large amounts of privately owned forest in the U.S., according to an intriguing piece by Ross Marchand in Real Clear Policy. Death tax...
by editor | May 19, 2019 | Top Page Links
A new attempt at immigration reform looms, the RAISE Act, touting “merit-based” credentials – but reform supporters should beware of the proposed reform’s limits on immigration based on family connections and refugee status, Sam Peak argues in the OC Register. In...
by editor | May 19, 2019 | Top Page Links
One of the most charming qualities of trees is their ability to absorb atmospheric CO2, and the loss of large tracts of forested land is widely imagined as a contributing factor to global warming. Except it’s just not true, as Alexander Hammond points out in Human...
by editor | May 19, 2019 | Top Page Links
In Foreign Policy, veteran science writer Laurie Garrett presents a devastating picture of the potential impact of China’s swine fever epidemic. Garrett connects the dots from dying pigs to President Donald Trump’s trade war with China, arguing that escalating...
by editor | May 18, 2019 | Top Page Links
While Venezuela’s agony is all the evidence we should ever need of socialism’s disastrous outcomes, an even more crushing indictment lies in the stark contrast between Venezuela and Chile, which has embraced broadly market-friendly policies over the last few...
