How will we feed the 9 billion people that will live on this planet in a few decades? Will we have enough water for all these people to drink? Will there be sufficient water to grow the food we will eat, and to cultivate the consumables we will desire?  Will we have enough energy to power …

Continue reading Meeting The World’s Food, Water And Energy Needs: A Reason For Optimism

Spain's success as a democracy was not preordained. How does a country become a democracy? How does a previously isolated country decide either to join the liberal international order or to stay out of it? These big questions remain relevant, even in this moment of democracy recession, in which the liberal international order is being …

Continue reading Review: ‘Looking Back Without Anger,’ by Javier Rupérez

The Trump Administration has a mandate to change the way the U.S. Government does business. As I’ve written elsewhere, we should conduct a top to bottom review of our “soft power” to understand what works and what does not.  We should prioritize activities that make us safer and help create U.S. jobs.  A top to bottom review …

Continue reading We Shouldn’t Be Eliminating OPIC, We Should be Putting it On Steroids