Lee Ohanian

Senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor of economics at UCLA

Senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and professor of economics at UCLA

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The Green New Deal targets climate change--but that’s not all.

Climate Change, the Green New Deal and ‘socialism’

The Green New Deal targets climate change--but that’s not all.

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What do young people think of the American Dream? Not much, says a new UCLA study, but many of them want to disrupt the status quo like Trump.

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The American saber-rattling against China has been increasing almost as fast as China’s own development in the past few years.

from Scheer Intelligence

Though one can debate the reasons, statistics and precedent of nuclear war, what is often left out of the conversation is the reality of it: destruction of the world as a whole.

from Scheer Intelligence

Tariffs, artificial intelligence, semiconductors, electric cars: there is much to be said about the evolving relationship between China and the United States.

from Scheer Intelligence