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Articles by Michael July
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
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6 tips on how Miami's small business owners can win free money
Running a business can be expensive. For 36 South Florida business owners, free money in the form of grants can go a long way. The Miami-Dade Economic Advocacy Trust recently announced the 18 recipients of its $10,000 Small Business Capitalization grants and the 18 recipients of its $2,500 Business Resource and Education grants. Both grants are offered to businesses on an annual basis.
Miami's pop-up shops are helping small business owners thrive with less overhead
On her 30th birthday, Marissa Johnson stood inside a coffee shop. For the last 10 years, she had dreamed of having one of her own. “I'm standing in a coffee shop that offers flowers, coffee, matcha,” said Johnson, now 31. “I thought to myself, ‘When you gonna get on it?'” But, like many other young, aspiring entrepreneurs in South Florida, she found the cost and competition was too great. “To get a good espresso machine alone runs about $5,000,” Johnson said.
Why They Don’t Fight
Few hypotheses in international relations are more influential than democratic peace theory—the idea that democracies do not go to war with one another. The idea, the political scientist Jack Levy wrote, “comes as close as anything we have to an empirical law in international relations.” It has motivated U.S. foreign policy for nearly a century. In the early 1900s, U.S. President Woodrow Wilson embraced democracy promotion as a means to peace.
On Humanitarianism
Sign in and save to read later Print this article Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Get a link Page url Request Reprint Permissions Humanitarianism is probably the most important "ism" in the world today, given the collapse of communism, the discrediting of neoliberalism, and the general distrust of large-scale political ideologies. Its activists often claim to escape or transcend partisan politics.
On Humanitarianism
Sign in and save to read later Print this article Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Get a link Request Reprint Permissions Humanitarianism is probably the most important "ism" in the world today, given the collapse of communism, the discrediting of neoliberalism, and the general distrust of large-scale political ideologies. Its activists often claim to escape or transcend partisan politics.
Guest viewpoint: Leveraging renewables in the new environment
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How to Save Globalization
For many decades after World War II, a broad range of countries shared a fundamental economic vision. They endorsed an increasingly open system for trade in goods and services, supported by international institutions; allowed capital, corporations, and, to a lesser extent, people to flow freely across borders; and encouraged the rapid spread of data and technology. As trade expanded, global living standards improved dramatically, and hundreds of millions of people escaped from poverty.
The Potential for Prosperity in a Post-Pandemic Economy
In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, much of the global economy came to a grinding halt. In the United States, industrial production and retail sales plunged to historic lows. In the eurozone, employment contracted at the fastest rate ever recorded. And around the world, many economies went into a sudden and deep recession. The pandemic did more than temporarily paralyze the global economy, however.
In Defense of Economists
Nobel Prize laureates Thomas Schelling and Robert Aumann in Stockholm, Sweden, December 2005 Henrik Montgomery / AP Photo In “The Dismal Kingdom” (March/April 2020), the economist Paul Romer excoriates his profession for causing many of the United States’ current problems—from lower life expectancy to the opioid epidemic to subprime lending.
How a Search for Respect Explains Russia
In 1839, the French aristocrat Astolphe Louis Léonor, better known as the Marquis de Custine, traveled to Russia to understand “the empire of the Czar.” Competing with his compatriot Alexis de Tocqueville’s study of American democracy, Custine produced a travelogue that was also an analysis of “eternal Russia.” Russians excelled at submission, Custine believed.
Regarding the Afro as Art
The recent rise of Afros on the red carpet, in magazines, and in advertisements might lead you to believe we're witnessing a beauty trend take shape. But Afros were always there—it's our relationship to them that's changed. The Afros I remember most fondly growing up were in vintage photographs of my then college-age parents in the late '70s.
Soccer – A No Score in the U.S.A.
Why don’t Americans like soccer? Well, not exactly all Americans – just most of them. Ask your average baseball fan where the next World Cup is being held.. Most likely he’ll give you a big shrug.
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