1+ week, 5+ day ago   (88+ words) Unfortunately, there is no sign that anything serious will be done to reign in the budget deficit. Indeed, there is the real risk that the need for increased defense spending in the wake of the Iran war will further increase…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (185+ words) After six months of off-and-on conflict with the regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran, another deadline for a deal has come and gone. As the President mulls his options, whatever step he takes next will likely involve continued activity…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (383+ words) Unable to win the war against Iran, President Trump is unrolling a new strategy: pretending to win. The U.S.-Iran cease fire, honored mostly in the breach for its sixty day term, has lapsed with no negotiations to extend it. President…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (612+ words) Mass immigration is arguably the most important demographic force at play in Europe today. It is also one of the most salient—and polarizing—issues in contemporary European politics. In our previous post we examined the case of Spain—a…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (587+ words) Late last month the tiny Spanish territory of Ceuta, an enclave on the North African side of the Strait of Gibraltar, was suddenly overrun by an influx of tens of thousands of migrants—overwhelmingly, young Moroccan men. (Spain’s Interior Minister…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (335+ words) Significantly, the tendency not to produce content critical of speech-repressive regimes occurs even when a query to an LLM arrives from an IP address located in a speech-permissive country such as Australia (where all the queries to the 10 commercial LLMs…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (60+ words) War on the Rocks BY Audrye Wong + Derek Scissors ON 20 Mar 26 BY Derek Scissors ON 11 Mar 26 Since April, Donald Trump has repeatedly given ground to China. He did it again last week by agreeing to allow export of the advanced…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (110+ words) One must express admiration for Germany on their clean, comprehensive, balanced and largely sensible Social Security reform proposal, compared to the continued inaction in the US. BY Mark J. Warshawsky ON 18 Jun 26 Last week, the trustees issued their annual reports on…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (667+ words) A quiet but continuing worldwide collapse in fertility levels has swept the globe. Most regions of the world are now characterized by sub-replacement fertility1, and every region of the world has at least some sub-replacement outposts. Steep and prolonged fertility decline…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (351+ words) The UK ban, like those in other jurisdictions, explicitly derives from the world-leading Australian regulations implemented in December 2025. The measure represents a fundamental shift away from the UK’s historic risk‑based, platform‑duty model of platform constraints in the existing…...