Space, The Final (Military) Frontier
The Sino-American struggle for 21st-century dominance is complex involving a wide range of intertwined political,...
The New Reality of Sino-American Relations
For the past 25 years, the United States has executed a strategy based on the idea that a combination of persistent...
Reexamining the Social Justice Imperative
As highlighted in the July 2019 issue of Trends, the United States is undergoing a political realignment driven by the...
The Sixth Realignment of America’s Political...
Over the history of the United States, its political parties have been born, matured and died. That’s because the...
Gaming the Sino-American Trade-War
published on: Jun 15, 2019
While developments in the Middle East, Korea and Europe get a lot of attention, the economic and geo-political struggle between the United States and...
Taiwan’s Crucial Role in America’s Pivot...
published on: Jun 15, 2019
Since the end of the Cold War, U.S. foreign policy has focused on the Middle East and Central Asia, while we’ve largely ignored other concerns....
Implications of America’s 21st Century...
published on: May 15, 2019
For nearly 20 years, the Trends editors have been forecasting and tracking the clear and rapidly accelerating internal migration now upon us. ...
The Greens Face Growing Global Push-Back
published on: Apr 15, 2019
Even as the Trump administration exits international climate agreements, rolls back Obama-era regulations and works to sideline hostile forces at the...
The Cancer of Socialism Returns
published on: Apr 15, 2019
The evidence of history is unequivocal! Capitalism works and socialism fails, everywhere, every time. Yet, after nearly 30 years in remission,...
Coming Battles in America’s New Civil War
published on: Mar 15, 2019
The first major battle of what the Trends editors call the Second American Civil War, is behind us. The so-called Battle of SALT, was fought over the...
Competing for the Evolving American Electorate
published on: Mar 15, 2019
The sharp shift from Barack Obama to Donald Trump caught most so-called “experts” by surprise. Many pundits are shocked that center-left and...
The Opportunity and Threat of Marijuana...
published on: Mar 15, 2019
Annual global revenues for the legal marijuana industry may eventually rise to between $150-and-$500 billion, generating enormous tax revenues. As...
The “Green New Deal” A “Serious”...
published on: Feb 15, 2019
The so-called “Green New Deal” is an aggressive embodiment of the progressive political agenda, harmonizing socialism, environmentalism, and...
Crisis for the Russian Bear
published on: Feb 15, 2019
Nearly thirty year ago, on November 9th, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell. Two yearsw later, on Dec 25, 1991, the Soviet Union ceased to exist and the...
China Faces Tough Choices
published on: Feb 15, 2019
China and the United States are locked in a struggle for control of the 21st century. Trade is at the heart of this struggle, but the conflict goes...
Strangling the Administrative State
published on: Jan 15, 2019
As previously documented in Trends, U.S. regulatory compliance costs totaled roughly $2 trillion annually as of year-end 2016. That’s over 10%...
Securing the Supply Chain of Strategic Minerals
published on: Dec 15, 2018
Recently, the U.S. Government classified 23 “mineral commodity groups” as critical based on the assessed likelihood of supply interruption and...
Where Are U.S. Economic Policies Taking The World?
published on: Dec 15, 2018
Because of its dynamism and scale, America’s trade, regulatory, and monetary policies set the tone for the rest of the world. To a large extent,...
THE NATIONAL DEBT: AMERICA’S MOST OVERRATED...
published on: Oct 15, 2018
Since the late 70s, the national debt has grown rapidly in absolute terms, as well as relative to GDP. And according to the latest government data,...
The 2018 Debt Crisis
published on: Sep 15, 2018
What do the Turkish lira, the Iranian rial, the Russian ruble, the Indian rupee, the Argentine peso, the Chilean peso, the Chinese yuan and the South...
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