Hot Air Promises: A History of Campaign Week Vows
The French Playbook 3: Clown Crusaders?
We see no better way to kick off our first Playbook of 2020 than with a contemporary Tale of Two Cities, or a civil service equivalent of a Marvel-DC crossover, depending on which generation you hail from; drama, suspense, emotion […]
The French Playbook 2: Pension Strikes, Presidential Bullying, and a Peeved Mélenchon
Our second edition of the short, biweekly hitchhiker’s guide to what’s driving the day in France. GOOD SUNDAY EVENING. One of us is back for our second installment of our French Playbook, while the other is busy re-booking train tickets […]
Trouble in the Tropics
The World Bank and the IMF engaged in a game of incentives across the global stage in the late 20th century, with the idealistic mission of sparking long-term economic growth in the Global South and emerging markets. Between 1980 and […]
Grading Campaign Week: The Quarterly Doesn’t Harmonize
Let us convince you with greek letters, lots of them. At the onset of Campaign Week, with list members focused on selling themselves in return for lucrative votes, friendships on the line, and emotions running especially high, we here at […]
The Kremlin’s Web in Eastern and Central Europe
Russia’s economic footprint bottoms at an impressive 12% in Hungary and Slovakia and peaks at an astronomical 27% in Bulgaria, with considerable clout in Latvia, as well. How can they escape, and why don’t they? Perhaps one of the most […]
