In the name of an Orwellian notion of freedom, we risk creating a fragile and dependent market where global platforms remain the uncontested masters.

Chancellor Merz has conceded that Germany can no longer sustain its expansive welfare state—a fiscal surrender to economic reality that other nations may soon be forced to replicate.

Pakistan’s repression of its overseas critics demonstrates how mass, unvetted Islamic migration affects free speech in the West.

Doomsday reports on Hungary’s economy are everywhere—but most read more like wishful thinking than real analysis.

The EU continues to fund the Turkish-occupied part of Cyprus despite ongoing breaches of international law by its self-declared authorities.

Despite widespread predictions, Russia’s economy hasn’t buckled under sanctions—but cracks are starting to show.

Normalcy in Russia–U.S. relations will transform conflict into cooperation in many parts of the world.

Ursula von der Leyen’s tariff deal with Washington marks the clearest admission yet of Europe’s diminished status in the transatlantic order.

As some countries ramp up social benefits to strengthen emerging welfare states, others are scaling back in a bid to rein in systems that have grown beyond what their tax bases can sustain.

Why is the world so silent in the face of the murdered, persecuted, and starving religious minorities in Syria?

Is the West falling apart? It certainly will if the moral incoherence illustrated in the EU reports succeeds in fully displacing the Judeo-Christian heritage that made the West what it is. 

To have a true peace settlement, each side will have to understand the root causes, fears, and experiences of the opposite side.