With so much trouble at home, the CCP is under more pressure than ever. U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken will travel to the Middle East over the coming weekend amid mounting tensions between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. “Tensions between Israelis and Palestinians have soared since Israel launched the…

“If a billion people stop eating meat, it has a big impact,” was an idea floated at the WEF in Davos this year. “If a billion people stop eating meat, I tell you, it has a big impact,” said Siemens chairman Jim Hagemann Snabe at last week's annual World Economic…

From billion-dollar construction flaws to scrapped projects: Is the Chinese Communist Party’s Belt and Road wearing out already? “SAN LUIS, Ecuador — Built near a spewing volcano, it was the biggest infrastructure project ever in this country, a concrete colossus bankrolled by Chinese cash and so important to Beijing that…

Everyone from Sen. Bernie Sanders onward has been piling on this week. And it’s only Monday. With his usual eyebrow-raising level of frankness, Sen. Bernie Sanders unloaded on “greedy pharma firms,” today in a damning op-ed published by FOX News. “Greedy pharma firms rip off Americans while Pfizer, Moderna swim…

Millions of students left school in March of 2020 and never went back. “With 23 countries yet to fully reopen schools, education risks becoming ‘greatest divider’ as COVID-19 pandemic enters third year,” warned UNICEF in a press release dated March 29, 2022. “In addition to data on learning loss, the…

Last week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams published a 6-point plan to address the growing humanitarian crisis at the border. There is an old adage that what can’t go on forever has to end sometime. The pandemic-era policy Title 42 must eventually end. When it does, the U.S. southern…

The Supreme Court can’t find the Dobbs leaker, but LAPD investigators are zeroing in on whoever leaked a recording of City Council members. “The Supreme Court has not been able to determine who leaked a draft of Justice Samuel Alito’s opinion in Dobbs v. …

The worst learning loss in a generation is going to extract a heavy toll over the next decade. “Online School Put U.S. Kids Behind,” reported Real Clear Politics on October 24, 2022: “Some adults have regrets.” There is plenty to regret — national test results are in, and they are…

“Not it.” According to the most recent national test results, extended public school closures erased 20 years of educational progress. “What Will It Take to Restore the Social Contract on Public Schools?” wondered the New York Times on September 22, 2022. The implication — that the social contract on public…