By Andrew Langer, President of the Institute for Liberty With the announcement that Fiat Chrysler is set to build a new plant in the Detroit Metro Area, it is clear that America’s shifting posture on trade is working—and with that, a crystallization of just what the “Trump Trade Doctrine” is. For the […]
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Stopping high-skilled immigration is self-defeating
While immigration has dominated the political debate in Europe and the U.S. for several years, one important but often overlooked issue is the range of skills, education, and productivity some immigrants bring to the table, which can boost economic growth and create jobs in the host country – even when their visa status […]
We Can End Malaria — Let’s Finish The Job
By John M. Bridgeland, Vice Chairman of Malaria No More American leadership can make the difference between life and death. I’ve witnessed firsthand how Americans saved lives in villages across Africa. While visiting a public health facility 13 years ago in Mukarange, the capital of the Kayonza District in eastern Rwanda, […]
Thakur: Are Generic Drug Safe?
In an op-ed in the The Hill, Dinesh Thakur, Founder of Medassure Global Compliance Corporation, reveals just how little we know about the provenance of generic medicines. Approximately 80% of America’s drug supply has “significant components” that were manufactured overseas, according to the Pew Prescription Project. “Lack-of-effect” results — when patients don’t […]
Approve tax treaties to fight double taxation
Simmer down kids! “Pool rules,” as some readers may remember from the halcyon summer days of childhood, are the basic safety protocols everyone has to follow in order to allow everyone to enjoy the pool: no running, no diving, and especially no horseplay. As governments around the world clamp down on tax avoidance […]
Gulf countries gave flagship airlines $48B in subsidies
Illinois Senator Everett Dirkson is famously supposed to have remarked: “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.” In the case of state subsidies to three of the world’s most well-known airlines, however, the saying might have to be paraphrased: “Ten billion here, ten billion there…” According to […]
Elections Confirm UK Polarization
The European parliamentary elections, which took place under the pall of continuing confusion and uncertainty surrounding the UK’s Brexit and attracted 37% turnout, reveal a polarized country in the midst of a wrenching political realignment. The big questions are what the new political equilibrium will look like, and how long it will take […]
It Was Always Going To End In Tears (P.S. It Will Never End)
By Erik Sass, TES Editor-in-Chief In so many ways, Theresa May’s tearful final departure as UK prime minister is classic Brexit: long expected but long delayed, it is a dramatic event that changes nothing, an emotional milestone marking progress to nowhere, a final statement that only serves to raise more […]
Cheering on evil: Maduro’s American supporters
by Egoli “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke’s words were as apt in the 1700s as they are today. As someone who witnessed weeks- long protests outside the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, DC, I might add, far less […]
Africa setting pace with free trade pact
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 amongst scores of African states, notes Alexander Hammond in The National Interest. […]