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The idea that we should redistribute wealth by fiat from prosperous to low-income and stagnating countries remains popular even though it is profoundly misguided.
The Takfiris are back in business.
Progressive discourse has become highly adept at identifying oppression, exclusion, and harm. But it is far less capable of understanding the basic conditions of political order.
A septuagenarian loyalist may be facing execution for the crimes of caution and professionalism.
The brutality the security forces are unleashing in Iran is not an improvisation. It is doctrine.
The right-wing response to recent events in Minneapolis indicates that MAGA conservatives are determined to repeat the mistakes made by Daryl Gates 35 years ago.
Greenland and the erosion of deep literacy.
Any invasion of Greenland would be a logistical nightmare with no economic upside.
China’s over-reaction to a measured remark about Taiwan made by the Japanese prime minister is an attempt to move the Overton Window.
It is difficult to overstate just how reactionary Trump’s 2025 National Security Strategy is.
With the survival of Nicolas Maduro’s regime now uncertain, Iran and Hezbollah have much to lose in Caracas.
Bari Weiss’s eleventh-hour cancellation of a 60 Minutes exposé on migrants imprisoned in El Salvador raises troubling questions about editorial independence at CBS News.
The fate of the Weimar Republic stands as a warning of what happens when societies and their citizens indulge extremism.
Between the jihad of the “Hamas of Africa” and the new order of the Abraham Accords, the choice in Sudan should be clear.
The Chinese economy is a picture of mismanagement, wasted opportunities, and decline.