Thomas Suddes is a former legislative reporter with The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and writes from Ohio University. tsuddes@gmail.com In what looks as if it were the final few days of legislating before a long, slow, summer off, the Ohio General Assembly was in a frenzy last week, passing measures, big and small, that by […]
Osaka Wayne Studios/Getty Images The US debt could eventually “break” markets if it keeps growing at this pace, Joao Gomes warned. The Wharton finance professor said he worried the debt-to-GDP ratio would double in the next 20 years. The US may no longer be able to rely on countries like China and Japan to buy […]
This was not a complete victory for South Africa, or the Palestinians. The ICJ did not order Israel to halt its military campaign – an implied recognition of Israel’s right to self defence in the wake of the Hamas attacks on 7 October last year. But the UN’s highest legal body has recognised that the […]