Taiwan: Stumbling in the Dark

Political news shook Taiwan’s economy last week. The tumultuous chain of events began with a cancelled power project, led to a cabinet shakeup, a warning to investors, and then a run on the stock market. Afterwards, Taiwan ‘s recently elected President...

Why Racism Persists

“Any Day Now,” a weekly sitcom on cable TV’s “Lifetime” channel, chronicles the lives of two woman-one black; the other white – who have renewed their childhood friendship that began in Birmingham, Alabama, during the early 1960s....

Rapid Climate Change and Human Intervention

The world’s climate can change in just a few decades without any human intervention. Jeffrey P. Severinghaus of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, using a new method of analyzing gases trapped in Greenland ice, showed air temperatures warming rapidly at...

In Defense–and Against–the Euro

The following letter was sent in reply to John Lewis’ article England, The Euro, and Socialist Europe. We present it followed by John Lewis’ reply. In Defense of the Euro: Mr. Lewis: Painting Germany as a socialist planned economy that is stagnating is...

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