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When my Ukrainian wife and I got married several years ago, one of the first things we had to do was apply for her US residency visa so that we could continue living in Puerto Rico. The process was overly bureaucratic and cumbersome… and there is ample room to reform it. But the
In the early 2000s as my time in the military was winding down, I had the opportunity to spend a few months of ‘terminal leave’ in Europe. I had just completed a couple of tours in Middle East, so, for me, Europe felt like the pinnacle of civilization. Twenty years later the continent
In the ancient town of Casinum—modern-day Cassino, Italy—parts of a Roman amphitheater still stand after nearly 2,000 years. Carved into the stone, in Latin, is an inscription that translates to: “Ummidia Quadratilla, daughter of Caius, built the amphitheatre and temple for the people of Casinum at her expense.” Ummidia Quadratilla was a wealthy
Every January, a consulting firm called the Eurasia Group releases its annual “Top Risks” report—required reading in corporate boardrooms. That’s because the firm’s founder, Ian Bremmer, is a CNN and MSNBC regular. His chairman, Cliff Kupchan, is a former Clinton State Department official. They’re about as establishment (i.e. leftist) as it gets. This
Former Fed Chair and ex-Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen finally told the truth. In recent remarks at the American Economic Association, she told the audience that US finances are in worse shape than most third-world countries. She said specifically that America’s “needed belt tightening is significant—larger than in most programs supported by the International
Congratulations to Kamala Harris on her new $8.2 million beachfront home in Malibu. The former Vice President—who spent years warning Americans that “our oceans are warming” and “sea levels are rising”—has apparently decided the beaches of California are safe enough to bet $8 million on. During her 2019 presidential primary campaign, Harris was
In 1913, Argentina was one of the wealthiest countries on Earth. Its GDP per capita rivaled that of Western Europe. The port of Buenos Aires bustled with international commerce. Immigrants flooded in from Italy and Spain, chasing the same promise that drew millions to US shores. Then came the Peronists. Juan Perón rose
On September 1, 1575, a royal courier from King Philip II of Spain arrived to the banking house of Niccolò de Grimaldi in Genoa. The Grimaldi bank had loaned Philip quite a sum of money, and the Italian bankers already knew that the king’s finances were on shaky ground. So when they opened
Tim Walz is angry. Jacob Frey is angry. I find it so rich that the people destroying the country think they have the right to be angry. Walz is the guy who allowed billions in fraud to flow through Minnesota social programs. He and his party import the worst third world scum for
Of the $18 billion in federal funding that went to 14 Minnesota-run welfare programs since 2018, HALF of that total may have been complete and total fraud. This scandal is a case study in government incompetence— over 90 people charged with bilking at least hundreds of millions from programs meant to feed low-income
It’s hard to imagine America being intimidated by a guy named “Little Turtle”. And yet, in the year 1790, he was about as terrifying as it could get. Little Turtle was the war chief of the Miami nation, one of the Algonquian-speaking tribes in the Great Lakes region, and he had made a
In our final look back at past work before my team and I take some time off for the holidays, we’re revisiting an article from August 2019 that captured one of the most important long-term truths about power, wealth, and decline. Think back to August 2019—your expectations and outlook at the time. How
Today we’ll continue our look back at past articles, with a piece that goes all the way back to 2012. I was in Oxford (before it became the woke capital of British academia), watching a Shakespeare play that referenced ducats—and it kicked off a deeper reflection on the stable value of gold over
As we wind down 2025, we’ve been reflecting on some of the biggest long-term shifts that defined the year. Last week, we highlighted three: First, Charlie Kirk’s assassination—an event that exposed the violent extremism of the far left and will likely drive a generational shift to the right. Second, 2025 marked the start
When Robert Oppenheimer watched the first atomic bomb detonate in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945, the blast confirmed that America had won the race to build a nuclear weapon. The destructive power of these weapons was extraordinary; the explosion from Oppenheimer’s “Trinity” test unleashed an astonishing 83.7 Terajoules (TJ) of