Category: Trends & News

Boris Bazhanov was a good Communist. Like many young people in the early 1900s who came from a prominent Russian family (his father was a successful physician), Boris developed a sense of guilt… almost remorse for the ‘privilege’ that he had enjoyed in his youth. He was 16 when the revolution took hold

It was September 2006— roughly two years before the 2008 financial crisis annihilated much of the global economy. But Greece was already in deep trouble. Unemployment was hovering around 9%. Youth unemployment was a staggering 25%. And government finances were in the toilet, with official debt-to-GDP at 100% and annual budget deficits at

Every year around this time, a silent killer sneaks its way onto European shores and slaughters people by the tens of thousands. Last year, it killed more people in just three months than the number of civilians killed in the war in Ukraine all year. It killed three times as many people as

Opening a bank account in the Land of the Free today feels like applying for a top secret security clearance. Banks often require multiple forms of ID, proof of address, proof of employment, plus detailed explanations of where your money came from, what you plan to do with it, and who you plan

This week the British Broadcasting Corporation flew halfway around the world to find a sad story that it could blame on (1) America and (2) climate change. Their drama opens in Afghanistan’s Ghor province, where fathers line up before dawn at a dusty square hoping to find a day’s work. One man weeps

[Editor’s note: This letter was written by Schiff Sovereign’s CEO, Viktorija, who is originally from Lithuania but lives in Mexico.] I’ve landed in a lot of cities. Most of them take a day or two before they show you who they really are. Monterrey, Mexico showed me in about fifteen minutes– on the

America was at the top of the world in 1955. World War II had been over for ten years. Soldiers had come home to GI Bill mortgages in brand-new suburbs. Detroit was building cars faster than anywhere else on the planet. And the economy was booming— in fact that year a milkshake-machine salesman

Almost ten years ago to the day, I woke up in my hotel room in Bangkok and flipped on the TV; it was late, late in the evening in the UK, and the BBC News was broadcasting live coverage of the Brexit vote. As the results slowly trickled in and it became clear

The year was 1998. Titanic was still pulling people into theaters. Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were chasing Roger Maris’s home run record. And the Dow Jones Industrial Average had punched through 9,000 for the first time. The Cold War was over. The Internet and cell phones were starting to take off. And America’s

In April 1953, CIA Director Allen Dulles tasked a chemist named Sidney Gottlieb with finding out whether the United States could do what the Soviets were rumored to have figured out: control human minds with drugs. His methods were absolutely insane; Gottlieb set up a brothel in San Francisco where CIA-paid prostitutes dosed

The US presidential election of 1912 almost sounds like the setup to a joke. Two Republicans, a Democrat, and a Socialist walk into a bar… But it’s true: William Howard Taft and Teddy Roosevelt split the Republican vote (with Roosevelt starting his own “Bull Moose” ticket). Woodrow Wilson was on the Democratic side.

Fake net worth. Fake bestseller. Fake racial crisis. Three stories caught our attention this week which show just how much of politics is pure manipulation. Representative Ilhan Omar quietly amended her 2025 financial disclosure last week, revising her household assets from a range of $6 to $30 million, down to a range of