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Mistakes have their place. As a society matures, its elites seek to get more and more of its surplus output for themselves. They “milk the system”, becoming more corrupt over time. They get richer. Th

There are policies that seem to work and some that don’t. But the policy that always works best is no policy at all. That is, left alone, people do the best they can with what they have. Only they kno

After World War II, America and its allies put in place a set of alliances, institutions and power structures to rebuild war-ravaged countries, create geopolitical stability and generate global econom

On Tuesday, the US Senate voted with “rare” bipartisan support to end the national emergency underpinning Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil, says Lauren Gambino in The Guardian. Although it is all but

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The troubled history of US-China relations