When actress Jenn Gotzon was recently interviewed on NTD Television about her role as a member of the honorary advisory board for the upcoming New Tang Dynasty (NTD) Global Chinese Beauty Pageant, she summed up the most valued trait for contestants in one word: benevolence. “I think benevolence is the strongest point because it’s about […]

The 14th annual Los Angeles Web Series Festival, also known as the LA WEB Series Festival or LA WEBFEST, announced 40 winners Friday. The Best Actor award winner was Devon Sawa for “Somewhere Between,” and the Best Actress award winner was Seol-Hyun Kim, a South Korean singer and actress for the long-form series “Summer Strike,” […]

LONDON— David Alton, Baron of Liverpool, was impressed by the powerful message Shen Yun Performing Arts delivered at the Eventim Apollo venue on April 19. “It’s a wonderful show; it underlines the beauty of Chinese civilization and culture,” said Lord Alton. “What a tragedy that a show like this can’t be shown in China itself,” he […]

LONDON—Sir Iain Duncan Smith, Member of Parliament, grew up learning about the arts and going to the ballet often with his ballerina mother, and his family going back three generations lived and worked in China, so it was with great anticipation that he attended Shen Yun Performing Arts to experience 5,000 years of Chinese civilization. […]

NEW YORK—David Paterson, former governor of New York, is legally blind, but he was able to find a way to enjoy Shen Yun Performing Arts. “I can’t see it as well as everyone else. But everything I saw was beautiful, and the movements were incredible,” said Mr. Paterson at the evening performance at Lincoln Center […]

NEW YORK—Film producer Tony Mark particularly likes live productions—unlike movies, there are no do-overs. “I’ve wanted to see Shen Yun for the last—I don’t know how many years, probably eight, ten years I’ve wanted to see Shen Yun,” Mr. Mark said on April 6 at Lincoln Center during intermission of Shen Yun’s opening night performance. […]

In 2006, a group of leading artists who had left China in search of freedom of belief and expression formed Shen Yun Performing Arts in New York. Since then, the name Shen Yun has become well-known around the globe, and the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company has taken to the stage at many prestigious […]

PITTSBURGH—Shen Yun Performing Arts touches the hearts of audiences around the world and some audience members show their gratitude in a special way. Pennsylvania State Senator Patrick J. Stefano attended Shen Yun’s Jan. 15 matinee performance in Pittsburgh at The Benedum Center for the Performing Arts. “I brought today my Certificate for Appreciation for what you’ve […]

The 2022 Shen Yun Performing Arts world tour swept away the uncertainty and anxiety of the global pandemic and brought beauty and hope to millions of audience members around the globe. The classical Chinese dance company was met with full houses at top theaters and praise from audience members from all walks of life who […]

The latest on the June 21 primaries in Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Mark Gonsalves Wins Georgia 7th Congressional District Primary Runoff 10:49 p.m. ET Mark Gonsalves on June 21 defeated Michael Corbin in a runoff to secure the Republican Party nomination for the U.S. House seat representing Georgia’s newly drawn 7th Congressional District. Gonsalves […]

DENVER, Colo.—Mr. and Mrs. Hess have a deep appreciation for ancient cultures. This passion drew them to attend the Sunday matinee of Shen Yun Performing Arts on Nov. 7. Jean Hess is a chieftain at the Saint Andrews Society of Colorado, a Scottish society, and a mental health counselor. Her husband Richard Hess is a professor […]

KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Pamela Skarda is someone who believes that faith does not have to create borders. After attending Shen Yun Performing Arts on her birthday, she was able to share the deep emotions that she experienced while watching the performance. “Utterly phenomenal, the best performance I’ve ever seen in my life,” Ms. Skarda said. “The […]

SEATTLE —Melissa Von Ruden, a painter and former dancer, said she was inspired by “top-level”Shen Yun Performing Arts as it dazzled audience members at the Marion Oliver McGaw Hall in Seattle. “They’re incredible artists,” Melissa said alongside her family members, Robin Von Ruden and Janet Cline, on Oct. 1. Robin, a worker in cybersecurity, said he […]

The White House says it is planning a call with French President Emmanuel Macron to, among other things, reaffirm the U.S. commitment to working with one its oldest allies, press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Monday. This comes amid fallout from a new trilateral defense partnership between the U.S., the United Kingdom, and Australia. The […]

Justin Trudeau’s Liberals won another minority government in the federal elections held amidst the pandemic. While not all ballots are counted yet and mail-in ballots are to be counted in coming days, the party secured enough seats to be able to form a minority government, but will remain short of the 170 seats required to […]

ACUNA, Mexico—Some of the thousands of illegal immigrants who have amassed near the Texas border are leaving the United States, going back to Mexico to pick up supplies or avoid being deported back to their home countries.

HOUSTON, Texas—Wildlife photographer Deanne Peterson and her mother attended their third Shen Yun performance together on Sunday, Sept. 19, at the Wortham Center Brown Theater in Houston, Texas. It’s become a family tradition. “We’ve come for probably four or five years, and it’s always really wonderful to come back and to see the new choreography and […]

RICHARDSON CITY, Texas—Music teacher and former singer, Judith Ritchie, saw Shen Yun Performing Arts two years ago and heard that the company was performing again at the Eisemann Center with a whole new repertoire. Knowing that the Sept. 4 performance would be another chance to learn more about Chinese culture, Ritchie decided to attend with […]

Thirteen U.S. service members were killed in a terrorist bomb attack outside the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 26. An initial report from Pentagon officials indicated that 11 Marines and one Navy medic were among those who were killed; another service member died hours later, according to The Associated Press. At least 18 service […]

SALT LAKE CITY—Audience members usually leave Shen Yun Performing Arts knowing a little more about China’s 5,000 years of civilization. For college professor and author Paul Skousen, his experience was no different. “This was an absolutely delightful introduction to a culture about which I thought I knew something. Clearly, I did not,” Skousen said. “I […]

Lisa Fifield was the first-ever American to be contracted by a Chinese ballet company.

SALT LAKE CITY—To the trained eye, dance is much more than entertainment. Dancer Paige McNamara said Shen Yun Performing Arts did just this after she was left fascinated by the artistry of a performance on Aug. 7. “I love the cultural influences that the dancing had. I love culture, dance, world dance, and seeing it […]

SALT LAKE CITY—After attending Shen Yun Performing Arts’ evening performance on Aug. 6, Price City mayor Michael Kourianos said he felt that Shen Yun was “something that should be shared with everyone and enjoyed by everyone.” Impressed by his first time seeing Shen Yun in 2019, Price said he wanted to enjoy another performance. This time, […]

Jessica Castleberry, a member of the South Dakota Senate, loved Shen Yun’s message that China is more than communism.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—Douglas Beechwood, owner of Terra Media, bought some of the last available tickets for his mother, brother, and son to see Shen Yun Performing Arts on Thursday. “My whole family and myself were absolutely taken away by it. Four of us joined tonight … So, three generations. Absolutely wonderful to share this experience,” […]

GREELEY, Colo.—Shen Yun Performing Arts is always a great treat for families. On the occasion of Shen Yun’s performance in Greeley, Colorado, on Sunday evening, Gina Johnson,  a symphony oboist attended with her family.

GREELEY, Colo.—It’s not often that a stage performance gives audience members a spiritual experience, but judging by the comments from audience members at a matinee on July 31 in Greeley, Colorado, Shen Yun Performing Arts has achieved just that. Shen Yun, based in New York, seeks to revive the 5,000 years of Chinese culture before […]

An eye surgeon, had an “absolutely wonderful evening” watching Shen Yun Performing Arts.

Shen Yun exceeded all expectations. It’s just a wholly brand new experience.

STAMFORD, Conn.—The Palace Theatre in Stamford, Connecticut was buzzing with energy and activity on June 26, with two performances of Shen Yun Performing Arts that kicked off the renowned dance company’s 2021 world tour. Audience members were thrilled to be able to attend large social gatherings once again following pandemic-related postponements, some even making three-hour […]

STAMFORD, Conn.—John Connor Blow walked out of the theater with his arms raised, moved with profound emotion and gratitude. “Thank you so much. I loved that show so much, I was crying,” Blow said, after seeing Shen Yun Performing Arts at the Palace Theatre in Stamford, Connecticut, on June 26, 2021. “I was moved to […]

After more than a decade of restoration, a 15th-century masterpiece is returned to St. Bavo’s Cathedral in Belgium. It’s also gaining a new bulletproof glass housing after a turbulent life of being painted over, partly stolen, and at one point, hidden by Nazis. The “Adoration of the Mystic Lamb” is an altarpiece featuring 12 detailed panels—completed in […]

HONG KONG—A Hong Kong television station said on Tuesday about 100 staff were affected by a shake-up as it seeks to remain competitive in a challenging economic environment, a move that has reignited worries over media freedom in China’s freest city. Local media said 40 workers had been laid off from i-Cable, including the entire […]

A free speech rally organized by conservatives was overrun by several hundred counterprotesters—some holding Antifa flags—on Saturday in downtown San Francisco. A number of individuals from the counterprotester group physically attacked conservatives, including event organizer Philip Anderson, who lost a front tooth after he was punched in the mouth, while one man wearing a Trump T-shirt […]

Australian police in hazmat suits raided the Ruby Princess cruise ship on April 8, in an investigation into Australia’s worst COVID-19 cluster.

PURCHASE, N.Y.—As someone who attended a Shen Yun Performing Arts program for the first time, Mark Benjamin was taken aback. “It was the best thing I’ve ever seen. It’s the best performance I’ve ever seen everywhere, anywhere,” he said at The Performing Arts Center at Purchase College on Dec. 21, 2019. The theatergoer attended the […]

BOSTON—Arthur Comegno has plenty of experience being on stage, as a musician, conductor, and actor over most of his life. At his first experience with Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra, he was blown away by the orchestration and emotive effect. “There were moments I felt that they were flying to the clouds and to the gods […]

The main player in a successful rescue search at Ontario’s Algonquin Park was none other than Zoe the Labrador, a two-year-old police dog working diligently with the Ontario Provincial Police’s canine unit.

Crowds of people, many of them dressed in black, have begun to fill Victoria Park to participate in the anniversary march that is set to begin at around 3 p.m. local time.

The World Faces a Choice on the 70Th Anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party.

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has been sentenced to 47 months in prison for tax and bank fraud related to his work advising Ukrainian politicians, which was unrelated to the Trump campaign. Judge T.S. Ellis III imposed the sentence on March 7, capping the only jury trial following indictments stemming from special counsel Robert […]

When the weather forecast called for up to eight inches of snow in their New Jersey community, brothers Brian and Patrick Lanigan immediately thought of their neighbor Natalie Blair. She depends on dialysis treatments—and that meant the snowstorm could be a life or death situation. Brian, who works as a local emergency medical technician (EMT), […]

WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump said on Feb. 24 he would delay an increase in U.S. tariffs on Chinese goods scheduled for later this week thanks to progress in trade talks and said if progress continued, he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping would seal a deal. Trump had planned to increase tariffs to 25 percent from 10 […]

Here is President Donald Trump’s 2019 State of the Union address as prepared: Madam Speaker, Mr. Vice President, Members of Congress, the First Lady of the United States, and my fellow Americans: We meet tonight at a moment of unlimited potential. As we begin a new Congress, I stand here ready to work with you […]

A superintendent has recommended the firing of a middle-school teacher accused of posting a series of erroneous and disparaging comments on social media. The comments were directed against a teen she misidentified as being a Covington Catholic school student seen in a controversial video—which also widely misrepresented—last month. Douglas County Superintendent Thomas Tucker has recommended the school board […]

“Dog the Bounty Hunter” star Beth Chapman has started treatment for cancer, according to reports. According to TMZ, the 51-year-old reality television star has started chemotherapy for throat cancer that doctors said had returned in November last year. Chapman has been traveling to Los Angeles with her husband Duane “Dog” Chapman to receive treatment while spending […]

WESTBROOK, Maine—Maine’s giant spinning ice disk that quickly gained international fame seems to have met its end. The formation in the Presumpscot River in Greater Portland stopped rotating on Jan. 16, two days after a video of its mesmerizing movement was widely shared on social media. The roughly 100-yard wide disk is lodged against the […]

Think of it as a beautiful full-moon or think of it as an alien ship hypnotically spinning over a wintry river landscape. From certain angles, it may appear like a celestial body staring from across some distant corner of our galaxy. But this giant rotating disk is nothing you may be thinking! It’s a rare […]

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has suspended embattled Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel. The suspension, effectively immediately, was issued via executive order, 19-14, Friday afternoon, Jan. 11. “Sheriff Israel has repeatedly failed and has demonstrated a pattern of poor leadership,” DeSantis said in a statement. Israel has faced intense criticism over his handling of the Marjory […]

PRAGUE—A non-governmental organization has submitted a petition signed by more than 38,000 people to the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic, asking the Senate and House to condemn the crimes against humanity committed by the Chinese regime. Since January, 2,000 Czech activists have collected more than 170 thousand signatures of Czech […]

When a young man named Eric Haralson was eating at a local McDonald’s one day, he witnessed a group of teens blow off an elderly woman’s attempts at conversation. While the teens didn’t mock or harass the woman, her polite questions to start up a conversation were shut down fairly quickly. Instead of engaging with […]

NEW YORK–A nondescript two-story walk-up building sits smack in the middle of Dean Street in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, and if you didn’t know where you were heading, you might walk right past it. Despite the inconspicuous location, it’s where some of the world’s finest handcrafted violins, violas, and cellos are produced. A modest workshop occupies […]

VANCOUVER, Canada—Huawei’s CFO Meng Wanzhou has been granted bail after her three-day bail hearing concluded on Tuesday Dec. 11 in a Vancouver court.  In his decision, the judge said that Meng is a “well-educated businesswoman with no criminal records.” He said he is satisfied that Meng has only two valid passports, and that she will surrender all […]

China experts say that in the face of crippling tariffs and other restrictions that the Trump administration has imposed on Beijing, its communist leadership is under immense pressure to give in to some demands. Even so, a former professor at a Beijing university, who now lives in Washington, cited a high-ranking Chinese official as saying […]

NEW YORK—The world has never seen an American president remotely like him. President Donald Trump’s outside-the-box political understanding has worked an economic miracle, according to top economists. In the new book “Trumponomics: Inside the America First Plan to Revive Our Economy,” two of Trump’s former senior economic advisers try to define the president and the […]

Dong Jiahong, one of China’s most famous transplant surgeons, has been disinvited from the China–Israel Innovation and Investment Summit, following complaints about his suspected participation in forced organ harvesting from Chinese prisoners of conscience. The high-profile conference, organized by the Chinese and Israeli governments, is being held in Haifa, Israel’s third-largest city, from Nov. 18 to […]

The fifth annual Bilingual Fair in New York City will be held on Nov. 3 at the Fordham Library in the Lincoln Center, giving students and parents the opportunity to learn about bilingual education. “More and more parents realize giving a bilingual education to their children is an amazing gift. We founded the NYC Bilingual Fair to […]

Dozens of musicians gathered outside the Sydney home of Australian conductor Richard Gill and played his favorite song, the “Dam Busters March,” on Saturday, Oct. 27. The famed conductor and music teacher died from cancer on Sunday, Oct. 28. The Sydney Morning Herald reported that Gill’s longtime friend and associate principal trumpeter in the Sydney […]

The wife of Interpol’s ex-chief Meng Hongwei said she is in danger and is worried that her husband could already be dead after going back to China late September. Gao Ge, whose English name is Grace Meng, believes her family is under political persecution from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). Zhang Jian, a Chinese pro-democracy […]

Globalization has transformed China into the “world’s factory.” Eighteen years ago, developed and newly industrialized countries moved their labor-intensive and low-tech industries into the country. However, the onset of the Sino-U.S. trade war prompted a growing number of foreign companies to leave China and move to Southeast Asia, giving Australia new opportunities. China, the “world’s […]

Uyghurs in China’s northwestern Xinjiang region are being tortured, raped, and killed in secretive “political re-education” camps, former detainees have told The Epoch Times. “Upwards of 1 million” of the predominantly Uyghur prisoners continue to be detained in what were, until Oct. 9, extrajudicial internment camps in western China, according to figures quoted by the […]

Interpol has confirmed that Meng Hongwei, who has been missing since his recent return to China, has resigned from his position as president of the international police agency, while the Chinese regime announced that Meng is under investigation. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) may have recalled Meng from Europe to avoid an incident similar to […]

Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra will be performing at Carnegie Hall on Oct. 7. Comprised of both classical western and eastern instruments, the Shen Yun Symphony Orchestra creates a unique sound like no other. “We go to a lot of concerts, this is the first time we’ve heard this orchestra and it’s been a real treat. […]

Proponents of an effort by the majority of California’s 58 counties to form a new state have set a second constitutional convention of delegates for Oct. 6 in Irvine. If such a secession effort is successful, as many as 51 counties would split from California. The “New California” entity would have a total population of […]

Household debt in China rose to a record high in 2017, putting another hole in the armor of the world’s second-biggest economy. The data supports Beijing’s official policy this year, which aims to deleverage at all phases of the economy and stabilize real estate prices. While its overall household wealth has increased, China’s household debt-to-GDP […]

Authorities in the UK have finally figured out that fake news stories and Russian-placed ads are not the real problem. The UK Parliament is about to impose stiff penalties—not on the people who place the ads or write the stories, but on the Big Tech platforms that determine which ads and stories people actually see. […]

Senator for South Australia Cory Bernardi has expressed deep concern after reports in The Epoch Times and The Australian exposed Victoria University’s conflicting statements about why they abruptly cancelled a screening of a documentary exposé of China’s state-run Confucius Institutes. “I’m concerned about our national security, our economic security, and the influence that the Chinese […]

MELBOURNE—Event organizers suspect the Chinese consulate is behind Victoria University’s (VU) inexplicable cancellation of “In the Name of Confucius”—an award-winning documentary that exposes a darker side of the so-called Confucius Institutes. VU is home to one of Australia’s 14 Confucius Institutes. CIs are Chinese state-run culture and language programs, which are widely seen as part […]

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China’s fixed-asset investments decelerated further in August, to the slowest growth rate since official records were kept, as the country braces for the introduction of additional tariffs from President Donald Trump. Fixed-asset investment—which measures spending on homes, factories, infrastructure, and other fixed assets—grew at the slowest rate on record in August, as Chinese economic growth […]

A social media account that translates U.S. President Donald Trump’s tweets into Chinese recently appeared on Twitter. The account profile says: “Follow U.S. President Trump’s Twitter and get timely updates so that Chinese all around the world can understand Trump’s concepts of governance!” The account, which opened in September, attracted more than 13,000 followers within 3 days. […]

Annazette Riley-Cromartie thought her family would be OK because they lived in a brick house. She was at her home in eastern North Carolina with her husband, three children, and dog as Hurricane Florence churned in the Atlantic. She watched the massive storm seemingly lose strength in the past few days as it dropped through the […]

NEW YORK—Vatchpol Srinuan has been attending the Ground Zero memorial service almost every year for the past 17 years to honor his younger sister, Saranya or “Suzie.” Born and raised in New York, his sister was 23-years-old when she perished in the North Tower. She was working on the 103 floor at Cantor Fitzgerald, and […]

NEW YORK—Retired New York police officer Kieran Breen, is still full of emotion when he talks about the terror attack of 9/11. “I’m angry. And hopeful, as I was in 2001. I was here that day.” “I think over 17 years, people have forgotten. It’s sad. But luckily, I come down here and remind myself […]

NEW YORK—Firefighter Kevin Kelly was rushing to the North Tower just before it started to tumble. His chief had not realized the South Tower had already collapsed. “We dropped everything we had [and] took off,” Kelly said. “First I got behind a car and somebody running behind me said, ‘Brother, you better run further than […]

A religious trio in Egypt join dozens more who have been sentenced to death for participating in a 2013 sit-in that ended in hundreds of protestors dying at the hand of Egyptian security forces. Senior Muslim Brotherhood leaders Essam al-Erian, Mohamed Beltagi, and preacher Safwat Higazi are three of 75 people given the death penalty for joining […]

News Analysis If the Russians wanted Trump to win, would they have allowed or assisted in the production of Steele’s dossier? The obvious answer is they wouldn’t. But then, the Russians didn’t want a Trump Presidency either. And why would they? Historically, all Russian ties lay with Hillary Clinton—Uranium One, the Russia Reset and Bill […]

A leading component of current economic worries is the use of economic armaments by governments to gain political and market advantages in their foreign relations with other countries. Among the leading participants in the use of such economic armaments is the Chinese communist regime. First, what are “economic armaments”? In the 1930s, the term was […]

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News Analysis One of the bombshell admissions from a closed-door testimony by DOJ official Bruce Ohr was that his wife, Nellie Ohr, was working for opposition research firm Fusion GPS already in late 2015. Previously, it had been reported that Nellie Ohr was hired to find dirt on then-candidate Donald Trump in the spring of […]

A little-known FBI unit played an outsized role in allowing controversial claims by a former MI6 Spy about Donald Trump to reach the highest levels of the FBI and State Department. The Eurasian Organized Crime Unit, which at the time was headed by Michael Gaeta, specializes in investigating criminal groups from Georgia, Russia, and Ukraine. […]

CUPERTINO, Calif.—A crowd of people in front of Cupertino City Hall in California watched and celebrated as the First Step Forum awarded the Shahbaz Bhatti Freedom Award to renowned Chinese human rights lawyer Gao Zhisheng. David Kilgour, a goodwill ambassador and a board member of the First Step Forum, presented the award to Gao’s wife, […]

SAN FRANCISCO—The California State Senate passed a bill on Aug. 21 authorizing San Francisco to open a facility for injecting illegal drugs, which, if it opens, will be the first of its kind in the nation. A coalition is working to stop the initiative. The push for establishing what is called a safe injection facility […]

The U.S. government’s interest in a free and open Indo-Pacific region is “rooted in the fact that the United States is an Indo-Pacific nation” and deeply invested in the broader region, says Alice G. Wells, principal deputy assistant secretary of state for South and Central Asian affairs. In remarks given at the Foreign Press Center […]

The Houston Communist Party is knowingly breaking the law in Texas, where it is illegal for a communist to hold public office or even a state government job. The local Party knows this full well. In 2011, they petitioned to have the law—Title 5, Subtitle A, Chapter 557, Subchapter A & C as well as […]

UPDATE: As of 8 p.m. EDT, the man and his 8-year-old son are still missing. Crews have announced they will continue the search on Sunday morning. UPDATE: As of 6 p.m. EDT, authorities say the 16-year-old boy was rescued by a friend of the man who is still missing along with his 8-year-old. No details […]

Kofi Annan, the controversial seventh secretary-general of the United Nations, has died. His death, at age 80, was announced by the Kofi Annan Foundation. Annan, of Ghanaian nationality, died in hospital in Bern, Switzerland, in the early hours of Aug. 18, two close associates of his said. Annan’s foundation announced his death in a tweet on Saturday, saying […]

The close friend of Bobbi Kristina Brown who found her on the brink of death in a bathtub from a drug overdose has himself died of an overdose. Max Lomas was found unresponsive on the bathroom floor of a friend’s house, TMZ reported, citing a law enforcement source in Mississippi. A syringe was reportedly found near […]

In reporting on the threat of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) infiltration in Australian politics, Australia’s journalists have been facing major challenges in doing their job to openly report on the issue due to the chance that they could be sued for defamation. But at a forum “The Great Thrall of China,” hosted by the Melbourne […]

From The Epoch Times

Commentary Labeled as critical infrastructure by the Department of Homeland Security, the manufacturing of freight railcars in the United States is an often overlooked but essential part of our nation’s transportation security apparatus. Businesses and government alike rely on America’s freight trains to transport upwards of 5 million tons of goods and materials across the […]

WASHINGTON—Chinese buyers have canceled U.S. soybean orders and shifted their purchases to South America in the past few months to avoid new tariffs between the United States and China. However, China is still dependent on U.S. supplies and will have to turn to American farmers after September, according to Morgan Stanley. Soybean prices in Chicago […]

Cracks have already appeared for Mexican President-Elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO). He is still four months out from taking office, and the National Electoral Institute has fined his political party $10 million for campaign-finance violations. Even if he personally escaped prosecution, this one instance is merely the trickle before the dam bursts. Unfortunately for […]

News Analysis Last week’s revelations that a Chinese spy served on the staff of California Senator Dianne Feinstein for nearly 20 years, should shock no one. The un-named agent, who was in place up to five years ago, was Senator Feinstein’s driver. He also served as a “gofer” in her Bay Area office and was […]

News Analysis While the United States and China are upping the ante in their ongoing trade dispute, so far the effects on the Chinese economy and financial markets have been far more pronounced than on the United States. China said on Aug. 3 that it would impose new tariffs on $60 billion worth of U.S. […]

Democrats did not always obstruct, resist, and embrace anti-American exceptionalism. John F. Kennedy—revered by the Left as Ronald Reagan is by the Right—was intensely pro-American; it was Kennedy’s deep-seated belief in American exceptionalism that drove him to push NASA’s Apollo missions, with Americans accomplishing the staggering feat of placing a man on the Moon. What […]

One of the central “policy problems” faced in modern societies is population growth. I used the scare quotes because it’s not clear that population is a state issue at all, much less a problem. Population, after all, is the sum of the consequences of millions of individual actions, some of them choices and some just […]