What Almost $8 Trillion in National Security Spending Bought You The killing of Osama Bin Laden did not put cuts in national security spending on the table, but the debt-ceiling debate finally did.  And mild as those projected cuts might have been, last week newly minted Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was already digging in his [...]

“It is a common theme” that the United States, which “only a few years ago was hailed to stride the world as a colossus with unparalleled power and unmatched appeal is in decline, ominously facing the prospect of its final decay,” Giacomo Chiozza writes in the current Political Science Quarterly. The theme is indeed widely believed. [...]

Parece que no da para más. El sistema político surgido luego de los acontecimientos bélicos entre costarricenses, acaecidos en 1948, muestra graves signos de agotamiento; generándose tensiones sociales de diversa naturaleza que han de seguir incrementándose, no solamente en cantidad sino en calidad; aunque por ahora (aunque no por mucho tiempo, pensamos nosotros), sin encadenamientos [...]