On the day after the 2024 election, the ‘center-left” media outlet CNN headlined, “What Just Happened? It was the Economy, Stupid.” ABC echoed, “Deep Economic Discontent with Biden Drove Voters to Trump.” Economic hardship may have convinced many “undecided” voters to overlook their qualms about Mr. Trump and vote for him. However, … Read more
Absorbing the surprising results of the November 2024 general election, the immediate sensation was one of relief. The media had prepared the country for a razor-close contest for president and Congress. Many did not expect an immediate outcome and thought the results would be both contested and take days to resolve. Fortunately, … Read more
The ongoing collapse of the Cuban electrical grid is not a typical power outage that most countries experience but the result of decades-long systemic neglect, underinvestment and reliance on obsolete technologies. Most Cuban power plants were built in the seventies and were expected to last 20 or 30 years. However, they are … Read more
Lying nearly 650 miles above the Arctic Circle, Svalbard, Norway, boasts beautiful mountains, glaciers and fjords. It is also the home of hundreds of polar bears and a hot spot to view the Northern Lights. This Norwegian archipelago, with fewer than 3,000 residents, is fast turning into a geopolitical hot spot thanks … Read more
The cardinals of the Holy Catholic Church are the pope’s main collaborators and advisors in governing the Universal Church. During the sede vacante period, after a pope dies, it is up to them to govern the Church and the Vatican State without any innovation. Then, their primary task is to elect the new … Read more
The House Committee on Homeland Security has raised concerns about cellular modems found on Chinese-built cargo cranes installed at U.S. ports. The committee fears China might use these devices for espionage A subsequent Congressional report demonstrated that Chinese crane manufacturer ZPMC had designed remote access to its cranes via these modems. While … Read more
Consider this all-too-likely scenario. Parents discover that their daughter is “transitioning,” a term describing the process of assuming an “identity” opposite to one’s natural sex. They ask their child about it. A conflict erupts. The following day, the girl’s school counselor calls the parents, inviting them to discuss the situation in the … Read more
“We want to continue a major trade and investment relationship with China, just not…in the realm that might help them to leapfrog over us sometime in the next ten years in military technology.” The speaker was Nicholas Burns, the U.S. Ambassador to China in December 2023. His remarks pointed to the great … Read more
The dangers of childhood cell phone use are becoming evident to the vast majority of American parents. The Commonwealth of Virginia is taking a leading role in dealing with that problem. As someone who has followed this issue for years, first as a teacher in a Maryland public high school and then … Read more
Shortly after noon on December 10, 1949, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek boarded an airplane in Chengdu. Mao Zedong and his Red Army were rapidly advancing on the few positions on the Chinese mainland still held by Chiang’s Nationalists. Chiang and his son made the short trip to the island of Taiwan, 110 miles … Read more