With recent declines in interest rates on U.S. debt, the market is ready for a Trump presidency and a new tax reform.

Ubiquitous porn use has transformed sex, dating, and marriage across the world.

The EU Commission wants to punish France for fiscal recklessness. But the EU is full of budget violators, so why France—and why now?

With a record of radical tax reform, Trump could indeed end the income tax. But the road to such a reform is filled with bumps. Here are three of them.

Conservative politicians are highlighting security concerns at both the Belarussian and German borders.

Politicians, celebrities, and the media are pulling out all the stops to prevent an RN victory.

Despite what EU technocrats say, sovereign states—not the EU—will have to take action to expand their militaries into forces worthy of the global stage.

Hungary has deterred illegal migrants and accepted real refugees, but the EU is not impressed.

The BRICS countries are moving along with their de-dollarization plans. The bigger BRICS gets, the more ominous the threat to the U.S. economy. Putin knows exactly what he is doing. 

We can trace some of the persistently high inflation back to the 2020 pandemic. But this time, it has nothing to do with excessive money printing.

Two former Portuguese colonies are pressing for closer ties to Russia, against a backdrop of military coups and political repression.

Italian PM Meloni now plays kingmaker behind closed doors.

The tax would invade privacy and clash with other attempts at changing behavior through taxes.

Recent efforts to punish Georgia risk precipitating, rather than deterring, the country’s drift toward Russia.

More people than ever get their paycheck from taxpayers. At the same time, some numbers seem to suggest that the era of big government is over. How is this possible?

Ursula von der Leyen is scrambling for enough votes in the Parliament for reelection, and she could also be excluded from the talks in the Council about her own position.

Snap election leaves all sides calculating how to form the next government amid suspicions Macron is playing a long game.

McConnell errs by assuming that Hungary can and should divorce its domestic interests from its foreign policy commitments.

For the first time since 1994, South Africa’s ANC does not have an absolute majority. What comes next will be an important test for the RSA.

There are signs that the policymakers at the ECB realize that this rate cut was not a very good idea. 

China, which is a partner rather than an OECD member, has been allowed to block a wider role for Taiwan.

The skirmish between Prime Minister Sunak and Labour leader Starmer over health care funding reveals a deeply rooted structural flaw in the British economy.

Donald Tusk’s government is like the “extended arm” of the European Union, conservative Polish journalist says.

For two major reasons, you should plan your personal finances on the premise that interest rates will remain high for the long haul.

Unless the French political leadership does something radical, more downgrades are coming.

If the Right does as well in the European elections, American conservatives might find that they have a critical mass of allies in Europe.

Getting the numbers right is the first step toward closing the budget gap. Here is the first step; when will we see the next?

We’re now witnessing one youth rebellion wishing to tear down the product of another: the left-liberal hegemony seeded by the student rebels of ’68.

By design, the standard European welfare state traps people in perennial dependency on government.

The EU is silent as a leftist government shuts down conservative media.