Dispatches

Time to Get Serious About Defending Democracy in the Indo-Pacific On July 31, 2025, news erupted that Taiwan’s President “William” Lai Ching-te had been denied entry to the United States by a Trump administration eager to curry favor with China. As his predecessors had done with regularity, President Lai planned to stop-over in America enroute to visiting allies in Latin America, but the Trump White House slammed the door …

So how to make sense of last Sunday’s (June 1) Polish presidential elections, in which the candidate of the far-right, Karol Nawrocki of the Law and Justice Party (PiS), defeated the liberal mayor of Warsaw, Rafal Trzaskowski, from Civic Platform? I had a sense this would be the result, after first-round voting gave the combined far-right parties a near majority total.

Lt. Governor Micah Beckwith recently took to X to post a short video denouncing the “DEI radical revisionist history” taught by “professors at woke schools.” His target: the idea that the 3/5 Compromise “was some terrible thing in our past.” This compromise—one of the compromises through which the U.S. Constitution was established in 1787—incorporated this language into Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution: “Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned …

Photo: “Cover of “La Domenica del Corriere” of February 24, 1929, signing of the Lateran Treaty.” Author: Achille Beltrame (1871–1945).Source. Via WikiCommons. “Copertina della Domenica del Corriere Anno XXXI n. 8 del 29.2.1929 illustrata da Achille Beltrame. La didascalia recita: Uno storico avvenimento. Nel Palazzo Lateranense, il Duce e il Cardinale Gasparri firmano l’accordo tra lo Stato italiano e la Santa Sede. Disegno di A. Beltrame Italiano: Anno XXXI …