by Aseem Gupta | Mar 15, 2025 | Political Theory, Governance & Ideology
In October 1995, Canada came within a few decimal points of breaking apart. Quebec held a referendum on sovereignty after years of constitutional failure, nationalist frustration, and arguments over whether the province truly belonged inside Canada. Turnout was...
by Aseem Gupta | Mar 1, 2025 | Economics, Markets & Money
In November 2024, Germany’s three-party coalition collapsed after months of conflict over spending, taxation and how to revive an economy that had barely grown for years. A few months later, the Alternative für Deutschland finished second in Germany’s February 2025...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 11, 2025 | Economics, Markets & Money
On December 4, 2024, UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson was shot and killed outside a hotel in Midtown Manhattan. The killing was indefensible. Yet the public conversation that followed quickly moved beyond the crime itself. Investigators found words...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 21, 2024 | Political Theory, Governance & Ideology
When the Department of Government Efficiency was announced in November 2024, it arrived with a number large enough to transform the United States government: $2 trillion. Elon Musk argued that a team of outsiders could identify waste, eliminate unnecessary programs,...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 7, 2024 | Economics, Markets & Money
In December 1989, Japan looked like the country that had solved the future. Its companies dominated automobiles, consumer electronics, cameras, semiconductors, machine tools and precision manufacturing. American executives studied Japanese management methods with a...
