These Are The World’s Most & Least Free Countries Global freedom declined for the 20th consecutive year in 2025, according to Freedom House. More than 50 countries saw political rights and civil liberties deteriorate, including the United States. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Gabriel Cohen, ranks the world’s most and least free countries using Freedom House’s 2026 Freedom in the World report, which evaluates […]

What England Can Teach Us About ‘Democratic Socialism’ Authored by Stephen Moore via The Epoch Times, If you want to see modern-day socialism in action, look no further than to the other side of the pond at not-so-jolly old England. The story of Britain’s decline is a warning signal to those here in the States who are thrilled by the warm embrace of socialism. Right now, the Brits are having the same debate about the merits of […]

Ukraine Plans To Hyper-Innovate Humanoid Robot Soldiers At the start of February, we pointed out that “humanoid warfare nears” and suspected these war bots were headed for Ukraine for testing.  That hunch was confirmed by early March, after a TIME Magazine article reported that Foundation Robotics, a U.S.-based startup developing humanoid robots for industrial and military applications, had recently sent two Phantom MK1 robots to […]

Europe’s Climate-First Policies Fuel Resistance To Air Conditioning As More Than 1,300 Die In Heat Waves Via American Greatness, Europe continues to rely on alternatives to air conditioning even as deadly heat waves claim lives across the continent.  Officials argue that expanding air conditioning is not a long-term solution. France’s record-breaking heat last week has been linked to about 1,000 deaths, most involving […]

Canada Was A Liberal Paradise… Until The Liberals Took Over Authored by Mark Jeftovic via BombThrower.com, There was a version of this country that worked. This was a country that used to punch above its weight across all key metrics and in a large part, did so espousing classical liberal values. Multiculturalism here was both uncontroversial and functional. People came from everywhere, integrated, and got on with building […]

US Fentanyl Crisis Eases But Remains Dominant According to the latest provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), U.S. drug overdose deaths have come down from the peaks of the past years while remaining at high levels. Recent figures suggest a notable decline to around 70,000 annual fatalities in 2025, following a peak of nearly 110,000 in 2023. Still, synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl, […]

The 4 Percent Rule Is Showing Its Age: Smarter Withdrawal Strategies For 2026 Authored by Peter Daisyme via Due, The 4 percent rule has guided retirement planning for three decades. The idea is simple: withdraw 4 percent of your savings in year one, adjust that dollar amount for inflation each year after, and your money should last about 30 years. It is a useful starting point and a great mental shortcut. But the person who created […]

FBI Mole Wore Wire Inside Newsom’s Inner Circle: Lawyer A mole working for the Biden FBI was secretly recording Gavin Newsom’s inner circle before the agency expanded its corruption probe into the California governor and his wife, according to a bombshell report by the NY Post.  Gov. Gavin Newsom, Alexis Podesta Democrat insider Alexis Podesta, a 45-year-old Sacramento consultant and Newsom appointee – no known relation to […]

US Navy Tests 3D-Printed Composite Patches To Speed Up F/A-18 Fighter Jet Repairs Authored by Mrigakshi Dixit via Interesting Engineering, The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) and Fleet Readiness Center Southwest (FRCSW) have co-developed a 3D-printed composite repair method designed to reduce F/A-18 Super Hornet maintenance times by approximately 50 percent. An F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot prepares for flight at […]

America’s $31 Trillion Economy By State As the United States approaches its 250th anniversary in 2026, its economy has grown to nearly $31 trillion, making it the world’s largest by a wide margin. Using the latest estimates from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA), this visualization, via Visual Capitalist’s Gabriel Cohen, ranks every state by nominal GDP in 2025, showing how each contributes to national output. […]

‘Something Has Gone Completely Wrong’: Palantir’s Alex Karp Goes Ballistic On OpenAI, Anthropic On Wednesday, Palantir CEO Alex Karp delivered a blistering critique of frontier AI labs, accusing them of having an “effing insane” business model that leaves enterprises paying escalating token costs for limited value while risking their proprietary data and intellectual property. He said that top AI labs such as Anthropic and OpenAI […]

Green Hypocrisy. The Case Of Baltimore’s Bresco Waste-To-Energy Incinerator Authored by Geoffrey Pohanka via RealClearEnergy, One definition of hypocrisy is pretending to have beliefs, values, or virtues that your actions do not match. In simple terms, it means saying one thing and doing another. On June 4th, 2024, Maryland Governor Wes Moore signed executive order 01.01.2024.19, Implementing Maryland’s Climate Pollution […]

These Countries Have The Highest Percentage Of Female Population Across most of the world, men and women are present in nearly equal numbers. Yet in a handful of countries and territories, women make up well over half the population, creating some of the world’s largest gender imbalances. This visualization, created by Harris Saleem via Visual Capitalist, ranks the countries and territories with the highest female share of the […]

Feds, LAPD Announce Major Human Trafficking Sting In LA Authored by Evgenia Filimianova via The Epoch Times, Federal authorities have arrested 10 people in a major human trafficking investigation, with prosecutors saying the individuals targeted children and adults along South Los Angeles’ Figueroa Corridor, marking the second large federal operation in the area in less than a year. Acting U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli speaks as Los […]

Jill Biden’s Memoir Sales Appear To Be Manipulated By Bulk Sales Former First Lady Jill Biden’s memoir, View from the East Wing, debuted at No. 1 on the New York Times Hardcover Nonfiction bestseller list on June 21. But how much of its sales were genuine sales from interested readers is unclear. Former First Lady Dr. Jill Biden speaks with journalist Paola Ramos (L) at the Sixth and I temple and venue on June 3, 2026 in the […]

Alive And Kicking: News Of Woke’s Death Is Greatly Exaggerated Authored by John Murawski via RealClearInvestigations, Just a few years ago, wearing a sombrero on Halloween could get you banished from polite society for the social crime of “cultural appropriation.” Nutrition experts argued that preventing obesity was a form of racialized “fatphobia,” even as scientific names of songbirds were purged in a moral campaign presumably […]

Billionaire Governor Pritzker Embraces Socialist Candidates As The Future Of The Democrat Party It’s a common and almost inevitable component of communist history that the leaders of proletariat movements always end up becoming some of the wealthiest people in those movements.  The idea of “equity” is a fantasy; every society no matter how “progressive” has an elitist class with more money and more power than the common citizen.  […]

Building Codes For Energy Conservation Can Increase US Home Costs By $14,000: DOE Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times, States that adopt the updated 2024 International Energy Conservation Code could see building costs for a typical single-family home go up by $14,000, the Department of Energy (DOE) warned on June 26. The International Energy Conservation Code (IECC) is a model code developed by the Washington-based […]

Feds Nab Alleged Member Of “Sprawling” Cuban Communist Subversion Network Linked To Hasan Piker’s Havana Trip Readers have been well ahead of both the federal government and the mainstream news cycle in asking whether there is a “Cuba connection” behind the radicalization of the Democratic Party and its aligned billionaire-funded nonprofit universe. What was once dismissed as speculation is now beginning to look more like a foreign […]

Japan’s Biggest LNG Buyer Creates Standalone Trading Arm Authored by Michael Kern via OilPrice.com, Japan’s JERA is creating a wholly-owned subsidiary to develop and manage its LNG, upstream, low-carbon fuels, and shipping businesses, the biggest Japanese LNG importer and largest power producer said on Wednesday. The new company, JERA Global Energy Solutions (JERA GES), will be the Japanese utility giant’s response to […]

NatGas, Nuclear, Coal Keep Nation’s Largest Grid From Buckling Under Heat Dome Summary: NatGas, Nuclear, Coal Power Generation Keep PJM Alive  First Day of Heat Dome Across Mid-Atlantic; Last Through Weekend  “Set Your AC To 78F”: NYC Socialist Pleads With Residents As Fragile Grid Faces Blackout Risk GridStatus’ website shows the PJM Interconnection under severe peak-demand stress as heat-driven cooling loads surge across the […]

World’s Largest Data Center Project On Verge Of Collapse After Blackstone Unexpectedly Pulls Out Up until now, when it comes to real estate, Blackstone was best known in recent years for dumping many of its trophy office properties – which in the aftermath of work from home never recovered their projected cash flow potential – at a huge discount. Now, it may be pulling a page from its old, pre-Lehman playbook  by calling the top in […]

US Nuclear Regulator Proposes Changes To Nuclear Safety Standards Authored by Jill McLaughlin via The Epoch Times, A U.S. nuclear regulatory agency proposed sweeping reforms July 1 to modernize nuclear reactor licensing and safety practices, shifting away from a global radiation measurement standard after 50 years. The cooling towers for units 4 (L) and 3 (R) are seen at Plant Vogtle, operated by Georgia Power Co., in east […]

Warren Pushes Progressive Agenda In Senate Primaries As Schumer Prioritizes Path Back To Majority Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Elizabeth Warren are engaged in a high-stakes contest for influence over the future direction of Senate Democrats, with the Massachusetts progressive working to reshape the caucus through targeted primary support while the New York leader focuses on expanding the map to retake the majority. […]

Ex-CIA Chief John Brennan Sues Trump, Admin Officials Over Allegedly Vindictive Investigations Authored by Timothy Frudd via The Epoch Times, Former CIA Director John Brennan is seeking a court order requiring the Trump administration to retain records related to allegedly vindictive investigations into him and his involvement in probing alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Former Director of the U.S. […]