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Life In Communist Cuba Is Nothing Like What Most Americans Have Heard

Communists took another beautiful, prosperous country and ran it to the ground. President Trump should force Cuba’s sickening human rights violations into the open.

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Why Is The New York Times Trying To Rehabilitate Communism?

The New York Times has been hosting a series of fond, nostalgic recollections about the good old days of twentieth-century Communism. Have they learned nothing?

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Google Firing Employee Over Diversity Discussion Is Frighteningly Authoritarian

Nothing could be more dystopian than the largest information, communication, and documentation hub controlling your thoughts and punishing you for wrongthink.

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Left And Right Can Find Common Ground In Opposing Authoritarianism

Conservatives have a unique opportunity to make allies of certain liberal-thinking Americans. Let’s stop talking about right and left and begin discussing big and small.

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Donald Trump Doesn’t Understand Why We Don’t Have One-Man Executive Rule

In two recent interviews, Donald Trump doesn't really seem to grasp the difference between our system of government and authoritarian one-man rule.

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How Gun Ownership Protects Citizens From An Abusive Government

Much like the effect of one vote, one gun will not stop tyranny. But many together can enact change and protect citizens.

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What’s Wrong With The Left’s Complaints That Populism Threatens Self-Rule

The Brookings Institution’s William Galston warns that liberal democracy ‘faces clear and present dangers’ from a rising populist tide. Is that really true?

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Why The Russians Are The Baddies Again

On Russia, Donald Trump has gone from America First to Blame America First. But Mitt Romney was right all along: Russia is our number one geopolitical foe.

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How Twitter’s Biased Bans Echo China’s Social Control System

As more and more of the tools we use in daily life—payment processing, social media, or even Uber—move online, the question of what it takes to be banned only becomes more relevant.

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China Is America’s Biggest Rival, And Russia Isn’t Even Close

While the media fawns over Russia’s failing authoritarianism, they ignore China’s much more successful brand of authoritarian nationalism.

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Why The Man Who Stood Before Tanks In Tiananmen Square Was A Hero

On the 30th anniversary of Tiananmen Square, we must remember the man who stood in front of lines of tanks, attempting to stop evil in its tracks.

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30 Years After The Tiananmen Square Massacre, One Protester Reflects

In late May and early June, 1989, students and workers took to the streets. Thirty years later, a Chinese-American protester reflects on the protest, China's improvements, and how far the country has...

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Why Bernie Sanders’s Dream Of Turning The United States Into Scandinavia Is...

Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders wants to transform the United States into Scandinavia. That should fill you with skepticism.

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Just Like Socialism, Bernie’s Campaign Collapsed Under Its Own Contradictions

In a single interview, Sanders may’ve forever demolished the effort to convince the American electorate he is a perfectly benign ‘democratic socialist.’

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8 Crazy Things Bernie Has Said To Propagandize Socialism

Bernie comes with baggage, and the American public rejected him. Looking at how his campaign is awash in money, however, indicates socialism is not going away.

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China-Style Internet Control Is One Of The Worst Ideas For Solving Coronavirus

Including the line ‘China was largely right and the United States was largely wrong’ discredits any piece of writing that discusses civil liberties and the rule of law.

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Leftist Shrieks About Trump’s Authoritarianism Attempt To Hide That They’re...

Although the media has thoughtlessly labeled Trump an authoritarian, his record — and the policy aims of his opponents Joe Biden and Kamala Harris — prove Democrats are the real threat to American life.

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Why The Left Can Be So Ridiculously Self-Righteous Without Realizing It

What we saw in the lead up to the elections, and what we’ll witness for years to come, is utter contempt for Trump voters and conservatives in general.

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Sec. of State Pompeo Blasts Tech Censors: ‘Authoritarianism Cloaked As Moral...

"Censorship, wokeness, political correctness — it all points in one direction: authoritarianism cloaked as moral righteousness," Pompeo said.

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Joe Biden Is The Commander In Hiding

We are living in a weird time, in a weird place, led by a senior citizen whose government seems to be metastasizing on autopilot.

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