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U.S. should allow Venezuela to export more oil

During the Trump administration, the United States imposed “maximum pressure” on the Venezuelan government of Socialist thug Nicolas Maduro. This policy involved tightening economic sanctions and a seeming attempt to help overthrow his corrupt and oppressive government. Unfortunately, but ...

Putin’s disastrous obsession with the past

National leaders can change lives for good or bad. Never more so than authoritarians. Vladimir Putin stands out in this assessment — a dictator who continues to harm his country disastrously. Experts have clearly shown that Russia’s prime minister is obsessed, some might say ...

Giving for policy change isn’t the same as political giving

This year we saw a midterm election system that was a record-breaker in political spending — to the tune of more than $16.7 billion. Our political discourse is replete with concerns about money’s influence, including “dark money” in elections. But what’s important to remember is the ...

Let’s modernize the FDA

A long-awaited review of the Food and Drug Administration’s Human Foods Program, partly funded by the FDA, is out. The conclusion from the Reagan-Udall Foundation is that the FDA is a great deal for consumers and would be a much better deal if the agency had a lot more money and power. As the ...

Without accords, goals to curb global warming are toothless

A month ago, COP 27 (the 2022 U.N. Climate Change Conference) had its last session. What did it accomplish? A fund was set up for rich countries to pay for climate-related disasters in poorer nations. But the basic answer to the question of what COP 27 accomplished, now as in previous years, ...