So deep is the pessimism in Europe about the economy that the better the economy does today, the worse people think it will do tomorrow...

Let not your eyes go MEGA ("my eyes glaze over") on me as I recite some eye-popping statistics about the continent of Africa...

The conventional political wisdom shows the November 7 midterm elections producing a Democratic majority in the House of Representatives for the first time since 1994...

Long before Sigmund Freud wrote about repression and the subconscious, Euripides the fifth-century B.C. Athenian playwright explored the frenzy of the human mind—whether Medea’s homicidal rage, Hippolytus’ smug self-righteousness, or poor Pentheus of his masterpiece Bacchae. ..

When Milton Friedman talks, not everybody listens...

Although this blog is mostly about international public law matters, ethics of war and just war, and, well, idle chit-chat, my teaching as a law professor is actually in the areas of business and international business...

The statewide election is Tuesday, but Frederick Cugini of Stockton still hasn't made up his mind about Proposition 87, the proposed tax on crude oil pumped from California wells...