Humanity still has not come to a consensus on what are entailed specifically within the rubric of human rights. Even in terms of those speci...

On May 5, 2025, the debt of the U.S. Government stood at $36.21 trillion, $28.9 trillion being held by the public and $7.31 trillion being i...

The New York Times reported in 2012, “Spain has a stubbornly high budget deficit, its banks require tens of billions of euros in rescue l...

In his speech on April 13, 2011 on reducing the U.S. Government deficits, President Obama identified two strains that had run through the...

During the debate in the U.S. House of Representatives in June 2013 on a proposed $20.5 billion in cuts over 10 years to the Supplemental N...

How well can the democratic form of governance serve as a means by which a society is circumscribed, or restricted in some way? In other ...

By early 2013, California had turned the corner from deficits—$9 billion in 2011 and $25 billion in 2010—to anticipated surpluses—$785 mill...

In the fall of 2010, the following was said on Fox News: “The government should spend more on the war in Afghanistan in order to fight te...

“A broad bipartisan majority of the Senate voted [on June 15, 2011] to end more than three decades of federal subsidies for ethanol. . . ....

In political economy theory, democracy is said to have the drawback of excessive consumption of public revenues at the expense of investmen...

Martin Scorsese’s  Hugo  (2011) is an intriguing story based on vocational functionalism, which in turn is based on deism. In other words,...

A few months after residents in the Scottish region of the E.U. state of Britain voted not to secede from the state by a margin of 55 to 45...

Should healthcare, foodstuffs, and shelter be treated as commodities subject to the buyer’s ability to pay, or designated as rights because...

The Declaration of Independence made by the thirteen newly sovereign American states in 1776 recognizes “that all men are created equal, th...

“State finances are teetering with $4 trillion in unfunded liabilities to cover pensions and health care for state workers, along with reve...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 28, 2012 that the mandate in the Affordable Healthcare Act (“Obamacare”) is not constitutional un...

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released an up-dated version of its Better Life Index in May 2012. The U.S. rank...

In the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, some delegates expressed the concern that giving the General (federal) Government the autho...

At the end of February 2012, the World Bank released its “China 2030” report in Beijing. The bank’s president, Robert Zoellick, said that Ch...

Lest it be thought that the economic safety net for the neediest led some of the E.U. states into excessive public debt toward the end of t...