Taiwan: Yesterday and Today
The roots of China’s conflict with Taiwan go back centuries, and are more tangled than the simplified accounts in the mainstream media. ...
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War With China?
All the talk is of a looming war with China. But how likely is it, and should we be involved? ...
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Thanksgiving: Giving Thanks in Times of Trouble
While many Americans are distraught by the current situation of their country and the world, they can find comfort in the fact that good people have suffered through and...
The Frankfurt School
The remote and desolate Argentine Pampas might seem an unlikely source for a global revolution, but one hundred years ago they produced a man who created a movement that...
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Leftist Advances in Latin America Now Include Colombia
On June 19, Colombia became the latest in a string of Latin American countries to elect radical leftist governments in recent months, following in the footsteps of Chile, Peru,...
Balanced Budget Amendment
Some conservatives are proposing a Balanced Budget Amendment to rein in out-of-control federal spending, but is this the right answer? ...
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Biden Revives TPP With New Indo-Pacific Trade Agreement
In his relentless quest to undo everything accomplished by his presidential predecessor, Joe Biden has taken another major step backwards: resuscitating the former Trans-Pacific Partnership trading bloc (TPP), which...
World Economic Forum — More Globalism to Solve “Global” Problems
The World Economic Forum 2022 is underway in its traditional venue in Davos, Switzerland. Two and a half years into the Covid-19 pandemic, the annual confab of international corporate,...
Terror by Starvation
From Russia to China to Ethiopia, tyrants have used planned famine as the ultimate weapon to force compliance. ...
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Food on Fire
Over the past two years, American food-processing facilities have been hit by an alarming number of fires. Is it a coincidence, or something more sinister? ...
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War In Ukraine Impacting Food Supplies
Blaming all of America’s food woes on the war is of course nonsense. Yet the disruption of supplies from Ukraine is significant. ...
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Biden Strikes Again Against U.S. Energy Production
In yet another militantly irrational move, the Biden administration has cancelled one of America's largest pending oil and gas lease sales. ...
Central Bank Digital Currencies: Say Goodbye to Financial Privacy
In a new study carried out by the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the central bankers’ central bank headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, an overwhelming majority of the world’s central...
Biden’s Price Hike
Biden must share blame with Congress and the Federal Reserve for the policies fueling rapidly rising prices from the gas pump to the grocery store. But his finger-pointing at...
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Shanghai’s Extreme Lockdown Policy Creating Untold Human Misery
As once-proud Shanghai, China’s largest, wealthiest, and most cosmopolitan city, enters its second month of near-total citywide lockdown, Chinese authorities are hardening their response to the apparently unstoppable Omicron...
Shanghai Now Under Severe Covid Lockdown
While world attention is riveted on Ukraine, another great crisis is building in the People’s Republic of China. For more than a week, the entire city of Shanghai has...
Calls for New World Security System Arise From Ukraine War
Among the many conflicting narratives emerging from the fog of the Ukraine war is the future of the “world security system.” Frustrated by the reluctance of Western countries, including...
America First
Decades before Trump’s “America First” rallying cry, there was the America First Committee, which enjoyed strong popular support prior to Pearl Harbor. ...
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The Dutch Republic
America’s Founding Fathers studied and applied the lessons of history when they launched our great experiment in liberty. One such lesson that is now mostly forgotten, but worth revisiting,...
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The Case for the Filibuster
Though the filibuster was established by the Senate, not the Constitution, it is in harmony with both the Constitution and the Senate’s role as a deliberative body moderating the...
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