Michael Smith

Jan 11, 2025 | cjonline.com | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith

Currently (excuse the pun), electric vehicles make up only about 1% of the car and light truck market in Kansas — but that will change. Even the climate denialism of President-elect Trump cannot stop it. His newfound friendship with Tesla CEO Elon Musk is sure to keep EV sales strong. Besides, a new Panasonic EV battery factory being built in DeSoto received the largest state tax incentive package in Kansas history — $2.5 billion. EVs are not perfect. They are expensive.

Jan 6, 2025 | newpol.org | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith |Phil Gasper

Having run as a Washington “outsider,” he immediately filled his administration with Trilateral Commission members, hoping that a coterie of Rockefeller internationalists could resurrect the confidence of American leaders and enrich business relations between Japan and the United States. His Secretary of State was Cyrus Vance, a Wall Street lawyer and former planner of the Vietnam slaughter.

Jun 5, 2024 | africasacountry.com | William Shoki |Michael Smith |Michaël Smith |Noah Tsika |Benjamin Fogel

Nigeria has a corruption problem—this is hardly breaking news. Less often acknowledged, however, is the fact that Nigeria has long had a vibrant and sometimes powerful anti-corruption movement. What are the origins of this movement? What has it achieved? Can it be rescued from the perennial limitations of anti-corruption (anti-)politics identified elsewhere in Africa and across the world?

Jun 1, 2024 | dailypress.com | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith

On a quiet bluff in Normandy, France, thousands of Americans lie in silent rows under white headstones. Eighty years ago, they landed on the beach just below, ready to fight — and ultimately die — to free strangers from the tightening grip of an evil power. Though their lives were taken from them before many of us began ours, their actions live on as a powerful lesson for every generation to follow — if we listen.

Jun 1, 2024 | pilotonline.com | Michael Smith |Michaël Smith

On a quiet bluff in Normandy, France, thousands of Americans lie in silent rows under white headstones. Eighty years ago, they landed on the beach just below, ready to fight — and ultimately die — to free strangers from the tightening grip of an evil power. Though their lives were taken from them before many of us began ours, their actions live on as a powerful lesson for every generation to follow — if we listen.