Reforming the U.N. Security Council?
"United Nations General Assembly" The United States has permanent membership in the Security Council along with the China, France, Russia, and United Kingdom. Each of these countries may veto any...
View ArticleMitt Romney’s Fake Love For Michigan
Say somebody is complimenting you. How do you know whether they’re being honest, or whether they’re just saying the same thing that they say to everybody? Well, one good way is to see how unique the...
View ArticleA Review of “The Clash of Civilizations”
(Photo: inju/flickr) In 1996 scholar Samuel P. Huntington wrote a famous book titled “The Clash of Civilizations.” Huntington postulated that after the Cold War: In this new world, local politics is...
View ArticleJapan’s Strange Isolation, and How It Hurts Us and Japan
Japan is one of the world’s most advanced economies. In some ways, however, its economy is quite isolated. This is a result of both geography and history. Japan is both an island alone and a former...
View ArticleHow Japanese and Americans Save Differently
In America a dollar today is worth much less than a dollar in 1980. Americans marvel at how much cheaper things used to be in the past, when Coca-Cola and movies only cost five cents. In Japan the...
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