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Economists estimate the U.S. is short over 650,000 construction and skilled trade workers, a number projected to grow as reshoring accelerates.^9 Unions Are Uniquely Positioned to Fill the Gap Trade unions—if reformed—could: Train tens of thousands of workers rapidly Provide structured apprenticeships Offer healthcare and retirement benefits without federal expansion Rebuild America’s eroded middle class Revitalize post-industrial cities through dignified w

Augustine never asked his readers to withdraw from the world. Christians, he wrote, must live as “resident aliens,” working for the peace of the earthly city while belonging to the heavenly one. This dual citizenship requires discernment: to engage without surrender, to love without idolizing.

The future will not be decided by machines or by mobs, but by whether we can recover the moral imagination that makes both science and society humane.

The tragedy of our age is not that we dream, but that we mistake our dreams for the world. The technocrat seeks to perfect the cosmos through code; the digital socialist seeks to redeem it through policy. Both are children of the same illusion—that reality is pliable clay in the hands of the enlightened.

They do not fear AI.They fear humans who do not need them. That is why so many consumer AI offerings appear powerful at first, then mysteriously weaken, restrict, sanitize, or disappear. They do not want you empowered. They want you dependent.

A persistent security threat that targeted Westerners, regimes, and later broader regional and global arenas. States responded by tightening control over religious institutions, professionalizing counterterrorism, and shaping a “moderate” official discourse—while preserving the option for decisive repression when red lines were crossed.

Luxury communism assumes automation will take over all “dirty jobs.” But in reality, many such jobs are resistant to full automation (nursing, sanitation, construction, logistics). Who then does them? Likely: The Unintelligent / Non-compliant: Those who don’t “buy into the ideology” may be funneled into menial work. Outcasts or Illegals: Migrants, criminals, or people without full citizenship rights may be conscripted into the “service class.” Artificial Serfs: Prison labor,

The emergent “outrage economy” redefines how information spreads—and often at the cost of truth, civility, and social cohesion

Unless the U.S. undertakes a wholesale re-sovereignization of its defense IT, this will be remembered as America’s Enigma: the moment the adversary read our playbook while we kept pretending the system was safe.

This is a wager that wealth, opportunity, and freedom are more attractive than repression.

This corridor, stretching roughly 300 kilometers from Salina Cruz, Oaxaca, to Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, has been branded as Mexico’s answer to the Panama Canal. But in truth, it is far more than that

This white paper traces who benefits from Libya’s fractured oil sector and the parallel human-trafficking economy, and connects these outcomes to the 2011 NATO-led intervention under the Obama administration. Using Machiavellian, liberal‑internationalist, and geoeconomic lenses, we argue that Muammar Gaddafi’s removal was an intervention many Western actors had incentives to pursue, and that post‑war policy choices entrenched a model of managed instability that preserves oil

Trump’s MAGA vision brings prosperity, but unlike FDR or LBJ, it is not designed to empower the federal government. Instead, it allows the government to: Step back from welfare micromanagement Decentralize control to states and communities Close down abusive and ideological institutions Freeze the expansion of entitlements to new dependents

As more tech companies rush into the soon-to-be-lucrative AI market, a growing crisis is brewing beneath the surface of America's infrastructure: a looming war over electricity. This isn’t just about who pays more for power—it’s about who gets power at all, and whether citizens will be left in the dark—literally.

Elon Musk is not the future of political office—but he may be the future of political power. Like George Soros before him, he is playing a long game across platforms, money, and ideology. But where Soros was a whisper, Musk is a roar. The only question now is whether Musk’s roar becomes a revolution—or just another billionaire echo in the halls of American decline.

They pour almost a third of their net income back into advertising, brand polish, sales incentives, and lobbying—money whose sole purpose is to keep consumers and investors believing that iPhones, cloud credits, and algorithmic feeds are life’s new necessities.

History is full of wars won in the gap between perception and reality. If the price of setting Iran’s nuclear clock back a decade is a week of bad headlines for Donald Trump, that is a trade the White House—and Jerusalem—will gladly pocket.

Thus any 24-hour product would inevitably be preliminary and low-confidence, focused on collapsed portals and crater diameters—not centrifuge status.

He believed the Iran issue was a wedge: Carlson framed his takedown of Cruz as a defense of “America First” against a return to neoconservative foreign policy. He expected his base to cheer him on—and many did—but he overplayed his hand by implicitly aligning the critique with Trump’s positioning.

In today’s world, we are drowning in information — but starving for truth. Every day, we encounter headlines, viral videos, and persuasive narratives that aim not just to inform us, but to shape us, emotionally and psychologically.