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Hal Brands and Michael Beckley write in Foreign Affairs about important geopolitical shifts. At first glance, today’s strategic map seems familiar. A bloc of land-based powers, clustered around the center…
We’re a year into Gov. Roy Cooper’s muscular use of emergency powers via the state’s Emergency Management Act. Too muscular in my view, and others as well. It’s time to…
Kevin Williamson of National Review Online explores bizarre reactions in some political corners to our ever-improving world. We were not supposed to have made it this far. George Orwell saw…
You’ve heard it here and here and here and here and here and here – solar subsidies and mandates are a bad deal. And again today from Rupert Darwell in…
The latest TIME magazine cover story features Robert Kaplan’s observations about the ongoing role of geography in political disputes, despite ruling elites’ interest in international law and centralized political unions.…
Great story today about the Chapel Hill community pitching in to help fund and build a home for a family. Look at what Mr. Moo has to say about freedom…
Former Singapore Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew offers Forbes readers a simple case study of the contrast between market-based and socialist approaches to the economy. IN TERMS OF LAND area…
If you read this story in The News & Observer and thought you were reading a news release by one of the Occupy movement’s public relations operative, you are not…
I read with interest N&R bleeding heart Lorraine Ahearn’s Sunday front-pager on the plight of Myanmar immigrants struggling to make a living by commuting 90 minutes to the Perdue Farms…
Only 17 percent of the world?s population (roughly 1.1 billion people) live in countries that enjoy freedom of the press, according to the 2009 Freedom of the Press survey from…
Recently returned from a trip to Cambodia and Burma, Paul Chesser of Climate Strategies Watch offers a report today in The American Spectator that expresses his wish that “fellow conservatives,…
Never let it be said that the United Nations doesn’t have its priorities straight: The United Nations will send nearly a quarter of a million condoms into cyclone-hit Myanmar to…