By Andy Blom, TES Washington Editor Wow! Busy week. Some states are opening, some states are dragging their feet, the stock market is climbing, employment is rocketing back up but people are still social distancing unless they’re protesting. And, in the true American spirit, some people just have never stopped working through it all, […]
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What Life Would Be Like on Planet Bernie
Tom Schatz, President, Citizens Against Government Waste In a galaxy not too far away and a little too close to Earth lies Planet Bernie. Everything is free from birth to death. There is a government program for education, medical care, housing, and retirement, all 100 percent guaranteed and paid for. No one […]
UK politics is already transformed
“The Brexodus of MPs will change the House Commons, whatever the election result” By Dr Alan Wager, courtesy of The UK in a Changing Europe On Tuesday, Philip Hammond said that one of the Prime Minister’s objectives in calling an early general election was to change the face of the Conservative party. […]
Sorry, Portuguese recovery was no “miracle”
Colombia may be the home of magic realism as a literary movement, but Argentina seems to be the home of magical thinking as a governing philosophy. The latest trend in magical wish fulfillment has Argentines looking across the Atlantic Ocean to Portugal, which supposedly […]
Johnson actually concerned about electability
The straw-haired aspiring Churchill isn’t just the rumbustious buffoon he’s often made out to be (although he is that too, oh yes… and some would have you believe he is a threat to the UK’s constitutional order for having the Queen dismiss parliament to get […]
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 […]