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by | Jun 14, 2024

In her political ads in the leadup to last week’s EU parliamentary elections, European Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen bizarrely…

by | Jun 10, 2024

Occasionally, the historical narrative will dabble in fairytales, usually at the intersection of knowable facts and unknowable mystery. Those stories…

by | Apr 27, 2024

Donald Trump’s hyperbolic threat to sic Russia on our NATO allies who fail to spend enough on defense prompted the…

by | Mar 9, 2024

Germany’s Catholic bishops are officially launching their first commission for “queer” pastoral care. Auxiliary Bishop Ludger Schepers of the troubled…

by | Feb 24, 2024

Germany’s Catholic bishops have abandoned their plans to form a forbidden Synodal Council to replace the authority of bishops with…

by | Feb 17, 2024

Germany’s Catholic bishops may be preparing to defy the Vatican, despite Pope Francis’s efforts to rein in the heterodox prelates….

by | Jan 5, 2024

China calls it the “Polar Silk Road.” It’s the “northern wing of Beijing’s Belt and Road Initiative.” It consists of…

by | Dec 29, 2023

I’ve spent years researching different ways of celebrating New Year’s Eve around the world. I guess I was looking for…

by | Dec 1, 2023

Henry Kissinger began contributing to America’s national security during World War II. After fleeing Nazi Germany in August 1938 at…

by | Nov 24, 2023

In August 2018, a surprising proposal was sprung on an unassuming public in the Republic of Kosovo and in Albania…

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