Don Davis

The U.S. government is broke! It must borrow more than $2 billion per day to fund its programs at home and its military operations around the globe. America's trade imbalance is also a huge problem for its economy

Many of today's wars are over control of the dwindling supplies of natural resources needed to keep nations' economies afloat—and their people alive. As population pressures grow in arid parts of the globe, nations are even competing for the most basic resources of all: arable land and water.

Not long ago, most people assumed that slavery was a thing of the past, and that the idea of one person holding another as property—to be used involuntarily, by coercion, for the master's benefit and profit—had disappeared as human civilization had become more civilized and enlightened.