The U.S. increased the size of the target on its chest when it used its financial muscle to sanction and impose tariffs on countries that failed to comply with its post-WWII capitalist, democracy-centered, moralistic international order. As a consequence, the U.S. now resembles the deer in...
What’s wrong with 21st Century America? In a single word, leadership … or, more precisely, the lack of it. America has lacked effective, constructive leadership for almost 30 years. That’s an entire generation! America’s Presidents, the successive standard-bearers of the Republican and Democratic Parties – Bill Clinton,...
Americans have awakened. They’ve become “woke,” a term deriving its meaning from African American slang. “Woke” came into the English language more than a decade ago when “stay woke” referred to the need for awareness about racial injustice issues. The Woke Movement has since expanded...
Don’t worry about how sky-high stock market prices are today. Or Bitcoin – its price is now $59,000 (having appreciated 500% over the past 12 months). Or the price of GameStop (from $4 to $483 in 6 months) or of sports trading cards ($1.3 million...
Today’s TLR is about the Soaring Dragon, its wings shading the global landscape … and the Resting Eagle, seated in its nest with its wings tucked neatly at its sides. The Dragon is China …, the 21st Century’s rising Great Power (its flight strategy described in...