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Guest view: Immigration gives US an advantage over other great powers Mickey McGuire Many Americans are concerned about the growing challenge of China, an authoritarian nation with three times our population. But in the struggle for our economies and cultures to dominate the remainder of the 21st Century, both the United States and China have a variety of advantages and disadvantages.  During the Trump years, even legal immigration to the United States was discouraged. Yet the fact that we are a nation of immigrants is one of our great strengths. A study of China’s demographics, however, r...

Money wars in Belarus Belarus dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka addresses the opening of the Slavianski Bazaar cultural festival in Vitebsk on July 16. (Maxim Guchek/BelTA/TASS via REUTERS) In addition to enacting a harsh crackdown on civil society activists and independent journalists, Belarus dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka is now also going after their money. Since the beginning of this year, Belarusian law enforcement have raided journalists’ homes or offices 107 times according to the Belarusian Association of Journalists. Since July 8 alone, 63 raids have been conducted and 33 journalist...

Procedures, frameworks to ensure better performance during the next pandemic which will surely come. the divergence between the last crisis and this one has been most stark on the global level. as daniel drezner wrote in his excellent book "the system worked" people used to think of global governance the way woody allen joked about food at catskills resorts, so bad and yet such small portions. in fact as he documents, global governance functions surprisingly well during the financial crisis. countries cooperated, central banks worked together and a downward spiral was averted. he noted even ch...

Demand more accountability of the message and the messengers.