On October 4, Flávio Bolsonaro narrowly defeated incumbent President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva by two points, 47% to 45%, in the first round of Brazil’s election, forcing a runoff to be held on October 25. It was a shockingly strong performance by Bolsonaro in an...
Israeli politician and former Knesset member Moshe Feiglin believes he is working to realize historical necessity. And that means rebuilding the Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem and emptying Gaza of every single Palestinian, either through mass expulsion...
U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly promised he could end the Russo-Ukrainian War quickly. Yet the actions attributed to his administration point toward a more familiar Washington strategy that demands capitulation to the so-called “rules-based” order. The...
Since March, Israeli attacks in Lebanon have displaced more than a million civilians and killed or wounded more than 17,000 people. Al Jazeera reported last month: “Israeli artillery shelling is still causing uncontrollable fires. Lebanese civil defense and...
Barely four years after the Pretoria Agreement formally ended one of the deadliest wars of the twenty-first century, large-scale fighting has returned to Ethiopia. In late September the principal anti-government force, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF),...
Death, taxes, and politicians being a massive disappointment—the constants in life. I would add one more item to that list: Ron Paul being consistent. As Europe and Latin America faced revolutionary moments throughout the 2000s, it was Dr. Paul who remained a constant...
What happens to a republic when its government lies so often that lying becomes less a scandal than a method of administration? Charles Goyette’s answer is that the republic becomes an empire, and the empire eventually becomes unable to distinguish its propaganda from...
On April 1, 2026, President Donald Trump delivered his harshest verdict yet on the Atlantic alliance. Asked by The Telegraph whether he would revisit membership after the Iran war, Trump replied, “I would say [it’s] beyond reconsideration. I was never swayed by NATO....
