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
Russia is weak and growing weaker every day. This evaluation is not directly related to the usual measures of national strength—wealth, military resources or occupied land—nor is it merely wishful thinking. Academics have a name for Russia’s core issue: demographics. Recipe for Disaster Demographics is the study of population and its change … Read more
In April 2022, a video clip circulated showing former First Lady and Secretary of State Hilary Roddam Clinton endorsing Florida Governor Ron DeSantis for the presidency. The idea of the leftist Democrat promoting the candidacy of a conservative Republican raised more than a few eyebrows. However, given the public profiles of Mrs. … Read more