Every new client who opens an account at my firm hands over a driver’s license, a passport, or a certified trust document before a single dollar moves. Federal regulators call it Know Your Customer or KYC for short. I call it common sense: verify who someone is before you give them access to something valuable. […]
President Donald Trump stands before a supreme geopolitical opportunity in the Balkans. Decades of State Department bureaucratic inertia have locked American foreign policy into a failed, artificial construct known as the Dayton Accords. This obsolete framework sacrifices American strategic flexibility on the altar of “democratic” diplomatic nostalgia. Rather than propping up a dysfunctional Bosnian state […]
The global bond market is throwing a massive tantrum, and the fallout is heading straight for your wallet. Investors are aggressively dumping U.S. government debt. This global bond market rout has driven long-term borrowing costs to heights not seen in nearly two decades. The most immediate casualty of this panic is the American home buyer. […]
Presidents love to make promises they don’t keep. Think back to the last guy in the Oval Office. Joe Biden vowed to connect rural Americans to broadband internet — the gateway to so much employment, education, and healthcare in the 21st century. But after spending more than $40 billion, not a single person was connected […]
Two years ago today, the international adoption community was shocked by the news that China terminated its international adoption program. As a Chinese American adoptee, the news brought back images taken on the first digital camera my adoptive mother ever owned, purchased for her flight from Minneapolis to Guangzhou, China. The blurry prints depicted the […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stood near Gaza’s Yellow Line this week and said Israel is not withdrawing from the territory it now holds while Hamas remains armed. During his visit to an IDF position in Gaza, he put the issue plainly: Israel will remain until the work of disarming Hamas is finished. That position […]
In the United States, there are numerous criminal actions that will earn you a deserved spot among the lowest of the low. Beyond the world of law enforcement, however, there are other social and cultural wrongdoings that in this country, you just don’t do, or else risk the dreaded backlash. This week, CBS’s Bari Weiss […]
In my work as a physician, I look at facts under a microscope. We do not guess or bend data to fit what we want to find. If a lab test is manipulated, the diagnosis is wrong, and the patient gets hurt. I see a similar process happening in our courts today. The new whistleblower […]
The Iranian regime is now at the weakest point in its vicious history. It no longer survives through genuine legitimacy, ideological loyalty, or a credible vision for Iran’s future, but through terrorism and repression, propaganda, and networks of operatives and loyalists beyond its borders. A Shia regime that once claimed to embody a revolutionary Islamist […]
Israel bombed an air base in northwestern Syria last month. Its rationale was that Turkish forces were preparing to deploy there and would threaten Israel’s northern border. Turkey condemned what it called “reckless Israeli attacks.” Washington stepped in to prevent an escalation, but the incident showed how volatile relations between two of Washington’s key partners […]
