Prices can rise for any number of reasons. Non-monetary events like supply-chain disruptions, or a spike in demand for a hot product or service — or a government regulation that creates scarcity — can all push up prices. The “good”…
President Joe Biden, U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Tuesday that they will begin working together through their new security alliance, AUKUS, on the development of hypersonic missiles. The announcement comes just months after…
The affinity between the United States and India is frequently cited: both countries have democracy, a western legal system, the English language, and free markets in differing degrees. Nonetheless, these similarities can be largely symbolic when it comes to India’s…
China has poisoned the world with COVID-19, and now increasingly threatens to invade our ally Taiwan. To learn more about the full specter of the CCP’s malevolence, the following is a recommended book list of all things China. Asia’s Cauldron:…
It was an exceptionally dark night in Ruidoso, New Mexico, and I was riding in a car crawling down a narrow, lightless alleyway on my way with family to get dinner. “Turn right at the next street,” came a voice…
The United Church of Christ announced September 21 that it has placed its nine-story denominational headquarters in Cleveland, Ohio, up for sale following years of declines in church membership. The staff will move to a much humbler single-floor office space….
This week there’s a whole lot of discussion over the idea of a “national divorce” between red states and blue states, and there are lots of maps out there on the internet being bandied about. I’ve seen a map which…
As 2021 painfully revealed, the United States did not achieve its objective of establishing a durable, functioning government in Afghanistan friendly to our interests. Afghanistan is but the latest in a succession of post-World War II disasters where we failed…
That is a political truth that is very, very old. In most of the ancient world, information was tightly controlled. Only the powerful could be educated, for the point of education was to be able to come to one’s own…