November 7th is the United States’ National Day for the Victims of Communism; a day that is framed around the remembrance of those who suffered under the consequences of totalitarian regimes that sought to snuff out human dignity, freedom, and… Read More
Last week a group of AI workers and leaders published an open letter warning the public and Western governments about the growing dangers of AI. Familiar names such as Dell, Adobe, and General Motors, and Shopify have joined Oracle, Cisco, Anthropic, and… Read More
For more than a quarter-century, Venezuela was not merely poorly governed. It was captured by Cuban communist intelligence services. Russian arms entrenched it. Chinese loans stripped the country of sovereignty while the Chávez–Maduro regime looted Venezuela, wrecked the currency and filled the… Read More
El acuerdo petrolero es un cimiento, no la meta final, pero es un momento esperanzador de progreso Durante más de un cuarto de siglo, Venezuela no estuvo meramente mal gobernada. Fue colonizada por los servicios de inteligencia comunistas de Cuba…. Read More
At 3:26 a.m. on September 1, 1983, a Soviet Su-15 fighter fired a missile into the side of a civilian Boeing 747. Korean Air Lines Flight 007 had strayed into Soviet airspace over Sakhalin Island, carrying 269 people – including… Read More
My grandmother was born in Chernivtsi in 1935, when it was still part of Romania. She never chose to become Soviet. That decision was made for her in a Moscow office, on a piece of paper neither she nor anyone in… Read More
A democratic socialist in Oklahoma? Apparently so. In this week’s Democratic Party primary, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist beat her mainstream rival. The candidate pledged her affinity for socialism, telling an interviewer: “Most countries that have socialism, they are thriving.” Socialists of all types assert that… Read More
August 23rd marks both the 37th anniversary of the Baltic Way, a human chain of approximately 2 million Estonians, Latvians, and Lithuanians in protest of the Soviet Occupation and Black Ribbon Day, a day of commemoration for victims of Nazi… Read More
Writing in Foreign Policy, VOC Senior Fellow in China studies, Dr. Adrian Zenz, and researcher Muetter Tohti explore how Beijing is pioneering new tools of transnational repression. Transnational repression has moved from the margins of human rights reporting to the… Read More
So-called democratic socialists such as Mamdani ally Darializa Avila Chevalier have called for the “total eradication of Western civilization.” This should not surprise us. For decades, America’s education system—from K-12 through universities—has drifted from teaching about the American Dream to an outright assault on America’s free… Read More
