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Who’s Afraid of the China Select Committee? March 24, 2025

Recently, the House Select Committee on the Competition with the Chinese Communist Party released a video highlighting the whirlwind of bipartisan accomplishments and groundbreaking investigations they’ve undertaken. The CCP’s decades-long political ...

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Congress

Politics

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U.S.-South Africa Diplomatic Crisis Provides an Opportunity for a New Beginning March 22, 2025

U.S.-South Africa relations sank to a new low last week after the South African ambassador to Washington, Ebrahim Rasool, accused the Trump administration of “supremacy” on four occasions during an online lecture on U.S. foreign policy to a South Afr...

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Noncitizen Voting in U.S. Elections March 19, 2025

Disputes about how America votes have raged since the 2020 pandemic-driven expansion of vote-by-mail.While mail balloting has continued to stir controversy, now noncitizen voting has taken center stage. Debate surrounding the issue will likely soon c...

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Elections

Congress Should Pass the Antisemitism Awareness Act March 17, 2025

Much ink has already been spilled on the antisemitism crisis plaguing the United States. As the new Trump administration seeks to crack down on antisemitism on university campuses, Congress should finally pass legislation which treats the subject wit...

Would a Peace Deal in Ukraine Last? March 13, 2025

Apeace settlement to end a major war can be an opportunity to reorder the world. After the defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte in France, European leaders negotiated new territorial boundaries at the Congress of Vienna, in 1814–15, in an attempt to establis...

Democrats Stuck in a Hole on Foreign Policy March 08, 2025

The party's hawkish response to Trump's Congress speech this week yearned for an unpopular bygone era ...

Steps for U.S. Military Against Cartels March 07, 2025

During his address to Congress on March 4, US President Donald Trump did not mince words about the threat drug cartels pose: “The cartels are waging war on America, and it’s time for America to wage war on the cartels.” His statement marks the cleare...

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Trump Hails "Common Sense Revolution" in Address to Congress March 05, 2025

Americas

Trump Tells Congress ‘America Is Back' March 05, 2025

President Trump sauntered to the rostrum, where the House Speaker normally presides, to double down on all his administration has already done in his first six weeks and will soon do, bellowing immediately before a joint session of Congress that “Ame...

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‘Living in a Bubble’: How Zelensky Miscalculated Trump March 01, 2025

For three years in the United States, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was heralded as the second coming of Winston Churchill. He earned standing ovations from Congress, posed for glossy photo shoots, and received regular envoys of politicians,...

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