On April 14, 2025, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton expanded an investigation into EPIC City, asking officials in Plano, Richardson, Wylie, and Josephine to disclose communications related to the project. This came after remarks from Yasir Qadhi, a prominent scholar connected…
I Published in 36 lavishly illustrated quarto volumes between 1749 and 1804, the Comte de Buffon’s Histoire Naturelle, générale et particulière, avec la description du Cabinet du Roi rivaled Denis Diderot’s Encyclopédie as the publishing sensation of the 18th century….
The new German federal government is planning hundreds of billions of euros in new debt. With this, Germany joins the ranks of the heavily indebted states of the Eurozone. Officially, the funds are intended for military capability and infrastructure development….
Our neighbors across the Atlantic are going through drastic political and social changes, but not for the better. The American Spectator contributing editor S.A. McCarthy joins hosts Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay on The Spectacle Podcast to discuss all things Ireland and Europe. Sam…
In March of this year, a case in Rotherham once again forced the United Kingdom to confront a reality it has long preferred to bracket. Two men, Romulad Stefan Houphouet and Absolom Sigiyo, were convicted of repeatedly raping teenage girls…
A tremor ripples through the world of numbers, a harbinger of a new era: The mercantilist pivot of the United States is shaking up the well-rehearsed choreography of global markets — a reordering of trade is taking shape. Power politics…
This is part five of a five-part series. Read the first four parts here. The government is a failed company. It works poorly even when it works well. Since we can’t get rid of it, the only solution left is…
As CEO of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs and former U.S. ambassador to NATO in the Obama administration, Ivo Daalder is a member in good standing of the foreign policy establishment. In a recent piece on the Foreign Affairs…
A French court sentenced Marine Le Pen to four years in prison and banned her from standing for public office for five years. It seems likely that the court may forgo incarceration for an ankle monitor, and it is quite…
