The Death of The American Dream? Is it over? Has the Dream that made America great succumbed to the ravages of time … the effects of bad government … the consequences of wrong-headed policy-making? Has the American Dream somehow become the American Nightmare? Or is...
The Widening Divide “For the majority of the human species, and for tens of thousands of years, the idea that humanity includes every human being on the face of the earth does not exist at all. The designation stops at the border of each tribe,...
The Authoritarian’s Playbook As explained in prior TLRs, Turkey was once the shining example of a secular Islamic republic with an 80+-year history of Western-style democracy. It unfortunately has become the shining example of how to distort a Constitutional democracy, subvert secularism and install an...
The Great Disruptor Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States, is The Great Disruptor. There is little disagreement that in his less-than-three-years-as-President, Trump has caused more national and international disruption than any individual or group since the end of the Second World War. Is...
America’s Different Democracy, or How Change Has Come to America America’s government is a Constitutional democracy that differs significantly from most other democracies, many of which do not have written constitutions and the majority of which are parliamentary. In parliamentary democracies, the country’s head-of-state is...
