Marta Olmos

Women, non-importation agreements and spinning bees in the American Revolution.

Hester Grant

The Sharp siblings show the power of family to help and support each other towards greatness.

On July 16, the State Department released the Draft Report of the Commission on Unalienable Rights. The report, as Walter Russell Mead notes, is “a thoughtful and carefully reasoned document that may serve as an important landmark.” Given the Commission's charge, though, it should be titled “A Comprehensive Review of U.S. Human Rights Policy,” as this blogger requests in the public comment process.

In current policy practice, human rights policy [...]

With COVID-19 spread across the globe and spikes of cases emerging, economies have fallen into recession and energy markets have been severely impacted, bottoming out in April. The global gross domestic product (GDP) in 2020 is now projected by the International Monetary Fund to decline to -4.9%; global GDP in 2019 was 2.9%. Furthermore, historic changes in energy supply and demand has elevated calls for structural sectoral change. The energy industry has been adversely [...]

Christopher Dickenson

In the ancient world, statues were not symbols of virtue and could take revenge on those who attacked them.