At the conclusion of the New Global Financial Pact Summit in Paris last month, President William Ruto of Kenya participated in a joint press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron and other world leaders. In his remarks, the Kenyan president made a number of...
On June 19, 2023, U.S. and Canadian Coast Guard teams, together with other supporting parties, launched a massive operation to rescue the five people on board the Titan, a submersible that was on its way to the site of the Titanic shipwreck. Five days later, news...
Poverty, racism, urban culture, and parental absenteeism understandably feature prominently in national discussions about the root causes of the dysfunction in America’s inner-city K-12 public education system. Conspicuously missing in the debate, unfortunately, is...
A traffic cop stopped a middle-aged man on a highway for speeding one afternoon. As the officer approached his vehicle, the man recognized him. The two men happened to live in the same neighborhood in a nearby small town. A few weeks earlier, the driver had seen the...
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers recently expressed worry that the U.S. is getting increasingly “lonely” on the international stage. In his view, China, Russia, and Iran are rapidly teaming up to counter the U.S.-led Western alliance, and he...
In international politics, national sovereignty is a sacred principle that must be steadfastly safeguarded. But in deferring to this tenet, one must ask what makes a particular nation sovereign. In whom does supreme authority reside within that nation’s borders? Is it...
