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Some Are More Equal Than Others in Socialist Venezuela
It’s amazing how similarly “real” socialism turns out, every time it’s tried. In George Orwell’s book, “Animal Farm”—essentially the story of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, told through farm animals—there is an incredible moment where the animals, who suffer under the system of communism that they’ve created, come to a horrible realization that everything has… -
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Ukraine Rebuilds Its Military Muscle to Repel a Russian Invasion
KYIV, Ukraine—For the past four and a half years, Ukraine’s military has prioritized rebuilding land warfare units to meet the immediate needs of the ongoing war in the country’s embattled, eastern Donbas region. This year, however, Ukraine has stepped up efforts to rebuild its air force and navy, too. This emphasis reflects a national security… -
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NATO Chief Credits Trump for Allies’ Boosting Defense Spending, Rules Out Naming HQ for McCain
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says allies are stepping up in their commitments to defense spending, and gives some of the credit to President Donald Trump. Stoltenberg also told an audience at The Heritage Foundation in Washington on Friday that the international defense alliance likely would not name its headquarters after Sen. John McCain, the veteran… -
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How the Chinese Government Is Suppressing Religious Groups
The following is a lightly edited transcript from The Daily Signal’s Sept. 11 podcast episode. Katrina Trinko: Modern China has never been friendly to religion, but according to the Associated Press, things have been getting worse under President Xi Jinping. The AP reports: “Experts and activists say that as he consolidates his power, Xi is… -
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Daily Signal Podcast: Religious Persecution on the Rise in China
In China, men and women of faith are facing increasing hostility from the state. The Heritage Foundation’s Olivia Enos shares what the Chinese are facing—from internment camps to having to share their home with a government official to seeing their Bibles seized. Plus: We discuss the rise of suicides in the United States in recent… -
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House Leaders Question Environmental Group’s Ties With China
Congressional leaders are pressing their case against environmental activists who are closely aligned with Chinese government officials. In a letter Wednesday to the Washington-based World Resources Institute, Reps. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, and Bruce Westerman, R-Ark., ask the leader of the nonprofit international research group to document compliance with federal law covering agents of foreign powers…. -
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Why Trump Was Right to End Funding for the UN Palestinian Aid Organization
Last week, the State Department announced that the Trump administration had concluded an internal review and decided to end all U.S. contributions to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). Part of the administration’s justification for the decision was the disproportionate level of U.S. financial support, but… -
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Foreign Nationals Who Were Indicted for Illegally Voting Still on North Carolina’s Voter Rolls
Foreign nationals who were indicted on Aug. 24 for allegedly voting illegally in North Carolina are still on the voter rolls and officials are struggling to take them off. Eighteen of the 19 individuals who allegedly voted illegally had registered at local Department of Motor Vehicle locations, according to The Washington Times Monday. Four were registered as… -
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South Africa Will Go the Way of Zimbabwe If It Doesn’t Change Course
South Africa has been thrown into the news because of President Donald Trump’s recent tweet that he instructed his secretary of state to “closely study” alleged land seizures from white farmers in South Africa. Earlier this year, a land confiscation motion was brought by radical Marxist opposition leader Julius Malema, and it passed South Africa’s… -
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South African Farmer Reports on What Is Really Happening in His Country Regarding Land Seizure
When a recent report on the uncompensated seizure and redistribution of farmland held by white farmers in South Africa drew the concern of President Donald Trump, his South African counterpart told him to “stay out of our issues.” Subsequent reports have raised questions about how extensive the land expropriations are and the level of violence… -
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Russia Opens a New Front in Its War Against Ukraine: the Sea of Azov
After more than four years of constant combat, the artillery still thunders daily in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region along the 250-mile-long, entrenched front lines of Europe’s only ongoing land war. There, Ukraine’s military remains locked in combat against a combined force of pro-Russian separatists, foreign mercenaries, and Russian regulars. For years, the physical effects of… -
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Why Troops Named a Street in a Ukraine Town After John McCain
At the front-line village of Krymske in 2015, Ukrainian troops renamed a street that had honored a Soviet luminary, calling it “John McCain Street.” The troops taped a printed-out sheet of paper with the U.S. senator’s picture to a power pole to make it official. Apparently, “hero” translates to “John McCain” for anyone fighting for… -
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Meet the Man Who Saved Early America From Debt
When Thomas Jefferson appointed Albert Gallatin to be secretary of the treasury in 1801, Federalists expected the worst. They had just lost the presidency for the first time, in an election so sharply contested that it took 36 ballots in the House of Representatives to make Jefferson president. They had also lost their majority in… -
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Media Misses: Gov. Cuomo’s Un-American Comments Don’t Get Enough Attention
We break down the top media moments this week—and plenty of misses. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo made some disturbing comments this week when he said “We’re not going to make America great again. It was never that great.” But we think the mainstream media didn’t cover it soon enough. And newspapers across the country… -
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How School Choice Is Increasing Opportunity for This Blind Teen Who Plays High School Football
Meet Adonis Watt, the high school freshman running back from Arizona who happens to be blind. That’s right; Adonis, who plays football fearlessly for Brophy College Prep is, to quote his mother, “101 percent” blind. When they realize you’re blind, says Adonis, “they try to go easy on you, but then they end up on… -
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No End in Sight as US Trade War With China Reaches 1-Year Mark
It’s been a year since the White House launched a trade war with China. On Aug. 14, 2017, President Trump instructed U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to investigate Chinese policies under Section 301 of the U.S. Trade Act. One year later, two important questions remain: What has Trump’s trade representative achieved, and how long will… -
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Russian Reaction to Trump’s Energy Policies Echoes Soviet Opposition to Reagan’s Missile Defense
NEW ORLEANS—President Donald Trump’s policy of unleashing American energy through deregulation has unsettled the Russian government in much the same way Ronald Reagan’s proposed space-based missile shield panicked Soviet leaders in the 1980s, a prominent climate skeptic says. Speaking at a conference devoted to greater freedom in the energy sector, writer and editor Marc Morano… -
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Asian-American Parents Join Forces to Fight for ‘Education Fairness’
About 100 parents, largely of Chinese-American descent, gathered on a recent Saturday afternoon inside an elementary school near Washington, D.C., to hear Heritage Foundation scholar Michael Gonzalez speak against racial preferences in school admissions. Gonzalez, a senior fellow in the leading conservative think tank’s Davis Institute for International Studies who has written on the subject,… -
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Is Pakistan About to Be Caught in China’s ‘Debt-Trap Diplomacy’?
Pakistan has received 12 bailouts from the International Monetary Fund since the late 1980s as a result of debt blowouts and balance-of-payment imbalances. Now, the country’s 13th bailout from the IMF—expected to be the largest so far—is on the horizon. And China is a key player as former cricket star Imran Khan of Pakistan’s PTI party… -
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Government’s Track Record Suggests BUILD Act Wouldn’t ‘Pour Money’ Into Africa
In an op-ed for CNBC, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Sen. Chris Coons, D-Del., urge Congress to approve a bill that would rebrand and double the size of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. They argue that the Better Utilization of Investments Leading to Development Act, or BUILD Act, would help the United States offset the influence…