Trump must stand up for Taiwan in Xi meeting

October 29, 2025

Trump must stand up for Taiwan in Xi meeting

President Donald Trump’s visit to Asia and expected meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the APEC Summit in South Korea on Thursday will be pivotal. While trade and rare-earth exports will dominate headlines, the deeper contest is ideological: democracy versus authoritarianism, conscience versus control. At the center of this struggle is Taiwan, the flashpoint […]

The rehabilitation of Marxism is changing American politics

The Democratic Socialists of America just wrapped up a Hajj to their Mecca: Havana, a city so buried in detritus after decades of communism that it’s a wonder why any politician would want to be associated with it. Comparing photos of the Cuban capital today with those from the 1950s is an anti-socialist campaign ad that writes […]

New glimmers of hope for Afghan refugee applicants

Despite the continued suspension of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program, the State Department appears to have begun a quiet effort to move a limited number of Afghans with USRAP cases out of Pakistan. Many Afghan USRAP applicants fled to Pakistan following the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan, both to remain safe amid the Taliban’s reprisal campaign and because […]

Are the days of the Democratic Party’s existence numbered?

What happened to the Whigs in the 1850s? And will the same thing happen to today’s Democrats? After the Federalist Party of Alexander Hamilton and John Adams collapsed in the aftermath of the War of 1812, the Whigs arose to replace them as the alternative to the Democratic Party that took its nascent form around […]

Transfer UNRWA’s budget to the deserving UNHCR

MASSOUDIEH, LEBANON — The United Nations is like a Hollywood starlet without make-up. From afar, the aura overshines any blemish. Bump into her on the street, however, and the illusion quickly fades away. Idealistic students and activists might embrace the United Nations as a xxxxxx of principle, but only those inside see the stifling bureaucracy, wasteful spending […]

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Why does Trump tolerate Viktor Orban’s many insults?

President Donald Trump tends to have little tolerance for leaders who insult or seek to manipulate him. Except, that is, when it comes to Hungary‘s prime minister, Viktor Orban. For some reason, Trump appears happy to enable Orban’s continued effort to undermine his authority and agenda. Orban hides his disdain for Trump behind only the […]

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