Saudi's try to market Saudi Aramco for money at home.

Iran dumps pretentions and races to build a nuclear device.

Francophile Africa is taken by Islamism

Islamists seek displays of street power to influence both the state & its religious membership.

Both nations financial markets remain deeply politicized by rent seeking hegemons.

Lopez is losing in the reform of Mexico

Reworking cells backwards permits microbiologists to discover where EVE originated. https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2019/10/31/where-was-eden-perhaps-in-a-sun-baked-salt-plain-in-botswana

Electric mediums create scale that analogue mediums cannot match.

Milton Friedman's insight into the moral foundations of captialism matter today.

Congress will never lead, US Presidency is left running the country.