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 […]