The Supreme Court takes up two major cases that could redefine parental rights in education, from opting out of Pride books to approving a Catholic charter school. The right to opt out one’s children from studying a sinister collection of sexually explicit storybooks in suburban Maryland, and the right…
In just under three weeks, the political establishment demonstrated its speed and ruthlessness when it came to taking down former national security adviser Mike Flynn. Freshly appointed and barely settled into his role, Flynn was the target of a coordinated sting operation that most now know was highly illegal. Flynn was pressured…
Zelensky’s presumption that the peninsula is sacred Ukrainian territory has no historical basis. NBC just reported that high level talks in London to end the war in Ukraine foundered when Zelensky proclaimed he would never agree to a deal in which the U.S. officially recognized the Crimea as…
Recently Mark Zuckerberg finally fessed up. He sat (on a booster seat) before Congress and admitted what we all knew—he interfered in the 2020 election. He poured over $400 million into battleground states to supposedly help with election operations. What that money really did was help install a Dem…
In his historic speech in Munich this year, Vice President J.D. Vance confronted the Europeans over their attacks on free speech, declaring “If you are running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you.” That is manifestly true, but it appears that there is something…
Fresh off her 2018 upset New York Democratic congressional primary win, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (better known as AOC) and Massachusetts Sen. Edward Markey announced they were launching an ambitious legislative plan called the Green New Deal. While people who had a grounding in economic thought found this new…
The key MAGA issue is not foreign policy, but how to structurally re-balance an economic paradigm in danger of an extinction event. Trump clearly is in the midst of an existential conflict. He has a landslide mandate. But is ringed by a resolute domestic enemy front in the form…
Kenneth Schmidt argues that the dramatic rise in Republican identification with MAGA reflects a historic realignment in American right-wing politics, initiated by Trump’s populist insurgency and sustained only if the movement evolves beyond the man himself. NBC News commissioned a poll in mid-March, the results of which may point to…
How likely is it that a potentially ultra-nationalist Germany “relitigates its borders or forgoes EU-style deliberation in favor of military blackmail”? Foreign Affairs warned earlier this month that an emboldened and remilitarized Germany could pose another challenge to European stability. They’re convinced that former Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s “Zeitenwende”, or historic…
My friends, let me introduce you to Yuval Noah Harari, a man chock full of big ideas. He explained during the covid crisis: “Covid is critical because this is what convinces people to accept, to legitimize, total biometric surveillance. If we want to stop this epidemic, we need not…
