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Top officials in Tel Aviv were shocked when President Donald Trump announced that he was not going through with an attack on Iran he planned with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.  Last week, multiple outlets reported that Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were plotting an attack on Iranian energy infrastructure. President Trump said he […]

Public goods theory often assumes what it seeks to establish, namely, that the state is the indispensable precondition of production, even though the state itself depends upon prior production for every resource it possesses.

Megacities Are Booming The number of people living in megacities has been growing significantly for decades, rising from 2.5 percent in 1950 to 16.4 percent of city dwellers in 2020. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz reports, according to UN projections, this figure will continue to rise slightly before stabilizing at around the current level by 2050. At the same time, living in smaller cities is becoming less widespread. The share of the urban population living in places with between 50,000 and 500,000 inhabitants fell from 50.8 percent to 38.6 percent during the same period. You will find...