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BY RYAN C. BERG Mexico is poised to become just the third country in the world to fully legalize marijuana (after Uruguay and Canada). If legalized, the size of the country would make it the world’s largest legal cannabis market. Already, headlines are

BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS Joe Biden wants more government intervention in the American economy. And not just cutting checks to people. Biden favors a national industrial policy, what his “build back better” campaign agenda describes as a “comprehensive manufacturing and innovation strategy” which “will marshall

BY DEREK SCISSORS The Chinese Communist Party appreciates American media praise. Yes, China halted COVID-19 and engineered a clear economic recovery. But the party has always denied or distorted major mistakes. Last year it lied about initial virus spread and, consequently, about

BY RYAN C. BERG Mexico’s attorney general has declined to prosecute General Salvador Cienfuegos, accused of cooperating with drug traffickers from the shadowy H-2 cartel. The widely predicted development brings Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) a step further down the

BY LEON ARON On his return from Germany, where he recuperated from an attempt on his life by Russian secret services, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was arrested at the airport and sentenced to 30 days in prison for allegedly violating the

President-elect Joe Biden is offering his formal backing to an ‘omnibus Indian recognition bill’ early in the next Congress.  Sources close to the matter expect the bill to include formal federal recognition of the indigenous political status of Native Hawaiians

In the unlikely event that the alleged President-elect Joe Biden, 77, dies before the House of Representatives officially certifies the election on January 6th, the House of Representatives would elect the President.  If Biden dies after that certification but before

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is telling close associates that she will run for United States Senate in the Democratic Party Primary against Minority Leader Charles Schumer — if he settles for anything less than full student loan forgiveness during the next

BY JAMES PETHOKOUKIS Chinese President Xi Jinping recently set a goal of doubling the size of China’s economy by 2035. To hit that target, the Financial Times calculates, the Chinese economy must generate average annual GDP growth of just over

BY KAREN E. YOUNG In ‘Twin Crises Deepen Gulf States’ Policy Competition and Independence’, I argue that, for the Gulf Arab states, the twin crises of the Covid-19 pandemic and the collapse of oil prices in 2020 have accelerated trends

BY DEREK SCISSORS Key Points American investment in the People’s Republic of China probably exceeds $1 trillion, most occurring in the past six years. The vast majority is portfolio investment—holdings of bonds and, especially, small equities stakes. The amount is

Documents suggest activity logs of incidents overwritten (WASHINGTON, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it received 243 pages of records from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that show the Obama administration’s scanning the election systems of Georgia, Alaska, Oregon, Kentucky

A controversial government program launched nearly a decade ago to protect airline safety has failed miserably to meet its “mission of mitigating the threat to commercial aviation,” according to a scathing federal audit sprinkled with redactions to protect “sensitive security information.” Known

Attorney General William Barr is launching a crackdown on the Philadelphia Mafia — and some expect that the City’s most senior mobsters are getting ready to flip on former Boss ‘Skinny Joey’ Merlino, who is widely suspected of rigging the

Sources inside the White House tell The Chronicle that President Donald J. Trump‘s youngest daughter, Tiffany Trump, plans to launch a yet-to-be-established foundation intended to fundraise more than $1 billion to construct and manage The Donald J. Trump Presidential Library.  Ms.

Tribal governments from across North America — including the largest, the Navajo Nation — are pleading with President-elect Joe Biden to nominate an indigenous person to serve as Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) in his

WASHINGTON, DC — Judicial Watch announced that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Department of Justice, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI),

Speaker Nancy Pelosi‘s majority in the House of Representatives is slimming to a narrow 222 -to- 213 margin.  The math of the matter has political operative Roger Stone encouraging President Donald J. Trump to seek the House Speakership. In order