WASHINGTON, DC: With America's Republican presidential candidates lining up to declare their fealty to a flat tax — a system of personal-income taxation that assesses a single rate for all — opponents have focused on why it is a bad idea to raise (...)
WASHINGTON, DC: Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko is a master of political survival. But, following a recent 64 percent devaluation of the currency, the clock appears to be running out on his prolonged misrule.
Lukashenko was forced by (...)
WASHINGTON, DC: As pro-democracy protests sweep the Arab world, Belarus, Europe's grim quasi-Soviet redoubt, has taken a turn for the worse since President Aleksander Lukashenko violently suppressed post-election demonstrations in December and (...)
WASHINGTON, DC: The era of free-market capitalism launched in the 1980's by Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan - often called "neoliberalism by its opponents - is over. This ideological wave has crashed with the ongoing financial market crisis, but (...)