Many articles supporting foreign aid tell of polls showing Americans think foreign aid is 25% of the federal budget when, these articles claim, foreign aid is only 1.2%. The Balance post, Current U.S. Discretionary Spending:...
The energy race is on, with separate lanes for teams advancing wind, solar, gas, coal, and oil sands technologies. Across the world enterprises race to discover and develop new energy-rich places and raw materials, searching...
(Revised from November 4, 2014/October 27, 2016 post) The United States doesn’t run an old-style foreign empire. But one could argue the U.S. runs an”experimental empire” where foreign military operations and foreign aid projects...
Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson in Why foreign aid fails – and how to really help Africa (The Spectator, January 2014) discuss the influence their book Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and...
The American Enterprise Institute’s Jessica Trisko Darden, in Youth radicalization is rising, and the international community is unprepared (AEIdeas, June 11, 2018), first reviews the ways children and mothers have been manipulated and used in terrorist...
In 1986 I was directing education programs, including high school debate programs, for the Foundation for Economic Education in Irvington, New York. FEE’s monthly magazine was The Freeman, long edited by Paul Poirot and I...
Consider the NSDA immigration reform topic, the Stoa foreign aid reform topic, and all three NCFCA topics (West Africa, European Union, International Terrorism): what if a single case could resolve or at least shed...
The public school NSDA policy debate topic for the coming school year calls for immigration reform: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reduce its restrictions on legal immigration to the United States....
Announced at NITOC, the coming year’s policy topic will be: Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reform its foreign aid. For those who preferred the infectious disease or environmental convention topics, the...
Recent posts looked at economics and demographics of West Africa for the proposed NCFCA resolution. Recently in the news, Ebola is back with an outbreak in Congo. The major 2014 Ebola outbreak brought this...
