I once served on the campus budget committee for a large public university. Over a dozen years, starting in the late 90s, I witnessed many changes in how the university operated. The biggest change was the surge in international students, especially those from China. Those students helped us balance our budgets, hire exceptional faculty, and […]

“President Trump is not going to do another ‘JCPOA’ with Iran. He’s simply not going to do a bad deal with the mullahs who have been trying to assassinate him for the past five years. It isn’t happening. Relax.” This is the refrain that people confident about the realism of President Donald Trump’s national security […]

The International Monetary Fund, the global lender of last resort for national governments, will meet on Friday to consider a new $1.3 billion loan to Pakistan under its Resilience and Sustainability Facility. The loan would be the 25th that the IMF has provided Pakistan, and it follows a $1.3 billion loan for climate change in […]