Yesterday, the German lander of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and of Berlin went to the polls to elect regional parliaments. In the former, the neo-Nazi Alternativ fur Deutscheland finished in first place, but the AfD failed to secure a majority. In the latter, the Left Party (the odds and sods aligned with the former communists) finished first.…

The Federal Reserve’s Open Market Committee meeting yesterday resulted in the Fed raising US interest rates by 0.25%, 25 basis points as bond traders say. This was the direct result of inflation that has risen since Donald Trump took office, when the rate was 3%. Drivers of this inflation are the war in Iran, tariffs…

Canada has received an invitation from the EU to join the body as an associate member. Precisely what that means has yet to be defined, and it will probably involve long and detailed negotiations. But it does make one thing perfectly clear. The United States has damaged its relationship with Canada so badly that the…

The Big Kahunas in Artificial Intelligence have announced that they think AI has a 10% chance of killing all humans.  To prevent that, they have called on the government to create regulations for the industry. One can see the argument for regulation of almost any emerging technology. Humanity did not and does not know all…

The war against Iran to a decidedly bad turn from where the President of the US sits in the last few days. The Houthi rebels in Yemen, who are allied closely with Iran, have taken the Red Sea port of Mocha and some islands in the Bab al-Mandab strait at the southern end of the…