Richard Phillips

Richard Phillips is a New York-based international analyst with extensive financial sector experience. [United States]

President Trump: The Magic of American Politics

Can this crude, narcissistic demagogue actually become President of the United States?

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U.S. Politics: Primary Election Mess

This year’s U.S. presidential primaries are not selecting candidates that can win the office.

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United States: The End of Establishment Orthodoxy

Democratic and Republican Party elites have failed to produce outcomes U.S. voters expect.

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Trump & America, You Can’t Have It Back Again!

Grandpa was dead; the kids were being poisoned; mom was enslaved and Armageddon was just around the corner!

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The Fallout From Michigan

Takeaways for the would-be frontrunners from Tuesday’s U.S. presidential primaries.

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Bernie Sanders: Tackling America’s Biggest “Rackets”

Health care, education and finance have particularly significant effects in distorting the U.S. economy.

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Bernie Sanders for President?

Why Bernie Sanders is the person best qualified to be the next President of the United States.

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Papal Politics in the United States

Catholic men are now a bulwark of the Republican Party. But Pope Francis’s teachings do not square with Republican policies.

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Iran Deal: Watch Who Is Doing the Warning

The same people who triggered the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq now categorically reject the Iran Deal.

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The Republicans’ Acid Reflux Syndrome

Presidential candidates are long on blame, short on solutions.

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