Intimidating warplane “exercises” around Taiwan; saying that Australia could become its nuclear target; nearly ramming a U.S. warship; and now, flying dangerously close to Canadian Air Force jets—are these signals the Chinese regime is bracing to launch a real attack? Elliot Ackerman is a decorated, former U.S. Marine Corps officer who served five tours in…

“When I was in Ukraine, I was speaking to a few Ukrainian intellectuals, historians, and others. One made a very interesting point to me … When Putin says Zelenskyy is a Nazi; in the West, we hear that [as] so ridiculous. He’s Jewish; how can he possibly be a Nazi? But when he’s saying that…

If the World Health Organization (WHO) hadn’t followed China’s cue in telling us there was no evidence of coronavirus human-to-human transmissibility in early 2020; if governments around the world, seemingly in sync, hadn’t massively infringed on personal freedoms to impose lockdowns and mandates over recent years; if the genocidal Chinese regime wasn’t a key player…

President Joe Biden’s regular gaffes during speeches are a source of both national embarrassment for America, and international amusement. However, with his latest supposedly “erroneous” pledge to defend Taiwan from attack by the Chinese regime, it seems there were some who were not laughing. As Biden prepared to wrap up his Asia tour, two bomber…

“The Chinese system is effectively the model for the ‘Great Reset.’ And that is to say, what they have in China is effectively what they’re trying to establish here.” —Michael Rectenwald Having returned to the United States after three months away, I reflect on what it is to travel overseas amid globally coordinated pandemic rules…

Political agendas, like those that lead a government or regime to censor data, news, or entertainment can have severe economic consequences. This frames our discussion today on some startlingly bad economic decisions surrounding the Marvel film phenomenon. “Dr Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” has been making headlines, but not solely for it’s box office…

With migrant encounters at the southern border up 550 percent since March 2020, you would think the Department of Homeland Security would be directing its resources toward stopping illegal immigration. Instead, it says it’s honing in on so-called “disinformation.” Why are conservative commentators saying that this announcement has an unsettlingly “Orwellian” feel to it? Where…

The estimated global COVID-19 death toll stands at 6.24 million (1 million in the United States). Other social impacts of COVID-19 and its associated “management” policies, like how school closures have affected children’s development, are harder to quantify, albeit on display among our families and communities. Economically, COVID-19 and COVID “management” have almost certainly influenced…

Parents who saw their children’s education stunted, people with chronic illnesses who couldn’t access the care they needed, and entrepreneurs whose businesses crumbled to nothing throughout 2020 and 2021 may well know the impact of COVID-19 lockdowns better than many of the public health officials who implemented them. It is also these people who would likely…

In some ways, resistance against Covid mandates and restrictions seemed to be peaking in February with events like the Canadian trucker protest, which looked like it was beginning to spread to other places. Then suddenly, restrictions and mandates seemed to relax almost across the board at around the same time Russia began invading Ukraine and…