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Due to the coronavirus, the world is facing a pandemic and a major economic downturn. This is happening all over the world, but the implications for the U.S. may be the greatest in terms of the American people’s health, the country’s economy, and the upcoming political elections. A lot of these are the results from […]

On October 4, 2019, Daryl Morey, the General Manager of the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA) issued the tweet “Fight for Freedom, Stand with Hong Kong.” This may appear to be an innocent and valid expression of freedom of speech. But a deeper reflection on that tweet shows not only that it […]

During the last three months, Hong Kong has been in a state of great turmoil with frequent mass demonstrations often involving illegal actions, including unlawfully blocking thoroughfares and seizing of government buildings, disturbing and wrecking subway stations, and temporarily shutting down the Hong Kong International Airport, harassing people who are not sympathetic to the demonstrations, […]

In the last year or so, and especially in the last few weeks, we have heard news coverage almost on a daily basis about the trade war between the U.S. and China. Because of the large difference between the amount of U.S. imports from China as compared to the amount of U.S. exports to China, […]