Don’t be surprised at this, but your tax dollars are being spent to subsidize a burgeoning industrial complex bent on producing… nothing of value. Welcome to the world of carbon capture and sequestration, which is modern capitalism’s answer to Holland’s…
The Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) case against Meta, which aims to decouple it from WhatsApp and Instagram, as well as the recent Department of Justice (DOJ) lawsuit against Google to split off its Chrome browser and Android operating system, sets a dangerous global…
While Donald Trump proclaims a new Declaration of Independence for the United States, Europe is sleepwalking through this historic shift. The state of European politics can best be captured by looking at the formation of Germany’s new government: sluggish, backward-looking,…
Visitors to Western Europe have grown accustomed to young male migrants hawking selfie sticks, demanding a few euros, or — most often — simply loitering. Cities behind the former Iron Curtain have largely avoided this transformation. In Warsaw and other…
Germany today is not just in recession — it’s in a deep systemic crisis of its own making. Once Europe’s industrial benchmark, the country now endures its longest downturn since World War II. Yet rather than own their policy failures,…
The Dutch film iHostage, the current top movie on Netflix, highlights cultural and political issues contributing to Europe’s decline. (READ MORE: Europe Is No Longer Worth Defending) The Spectacle Podcast hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay discuss the many ways that European…
China is escalating its trade war with the United States to dangerous new heights: a ban on rare earth exports is putting global supply chains under extreme pressure. Is Beijing overestimating its economic resilience? The U.S. and China are locked…
Foreign Affairs magazine continues its establishment anti-Trump ethos with a feature article by Hal Brands of Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the American Enterprise Institute titled “The Renegade Order,” which parrots his new book The Eurasian Century:…
Washington and London are currently negotiating a tariff agreement. The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump wants the U.K. government to repeal hate speech laws in order to secure a trade deal between the two nations, the Independent reported last…