Having succeeded beyond its expectations, Singapore doesn’t seem to know what to do next—except to keep on driving ahead, pedal to the metal.

While there is blame to go around, Trump and his Congressional enablers are overwhelmingly responsible for weakening the foundations of the republic. And the effects of America’s democratic decay are already being felt beyond its own borders.

Singapore’s elite-driven, technocratic, and thoroughly paternalistic democracy has complex roots. Understanding the challenges it faces can help us better understand how the best-meaning leaders can run into trouble.

The new wireless technology is indeed a big deal for economics and geopolitics—but the social consequences may be the most momentous.

As everyone knows, the evening of December 31 is New Year’s Eve. But why is December 31 New Year’s Eve? And why is the next year the number 2020?

What do elocution, spices, Shakespeare, baseball, and Social Security reform have in common?

Calvin Coolidge once said, “The business of America is business.” The same is true of Singapore, perhaps even more so than America.

Capitalist para-democracy with Chinese characteristics? Non-socialist social corporatism? Illiberal-democratic liberalism? The characteristics that make Singapore improbable are themselves an improbable combination of characteristics.

Two things are true: Trump’s defenders are disingenuous when they talk about criminality when arguing against impeachment. And our society’s sense of what is properly criminal has been severely degraded in recent times.

From Mick Mulvaney to the mainstream media, just about everyone has failed to grasp the full meaning of the infamous Trump-Zelensky conversation.