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  Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian declared at the BRICS summit in India that Tehran would agree to reopen the Strait of Hormuz if the United States stopped blocking Iranian trade and supplies and lifted its sanctions. He also demanded the release of frozen assets, the resumption of investment, an end to Israel’s operations in Lebanon […]

Over the past two decades, the European Union has become the world’s leading regulator of the digital economy, setting many of the rules governing how technology companies operate worldwide. Yet while Brussels has shaped global standards through the GDPR, the Digital Markets Act, the Digital Services Act, and the AI Act, Europe has failed to […]

A better law is welcome. But if legal text can’t tie a government’s hands, the fix has to be structural, not textual. On August 26, Argentina’s Chamber of Deputies approved a sweeping rewrite of the BCRA’s charter, 144 votes to 102, with 9 abstentions. The bill now moves to the Senate. It would bar the […]

  Public universities suffer from a serious disease: what Milton and Rose Friedman called the tyranny of the status quo. Public universities are direct beneficiaries of central government subsidies that cover staff costs and operating expenses. Only a small portion of these subsidies are performance-based; the remaining part simply covers costs and losses. For instance, […]

  The Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) won some 44 percent of the vote in the election for the regional parliament of Saxony-Anhalt. The AfD is labeled “populist” and “right-wing” by most media and is marginalized by all other political parties in Germany. The German domestic intelligence service, which depends directly on the chancellor, has declared […]