Marcos Falcone Thirty-five years after the creation of Mercosur—the South American trade bloc founded by Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay—it is clear that the strategy of collective integration into the global economy has failed. Instead of turning relatively protectionist countries into free-trade countries, Mercosur has simply become a large protectionist bloc itself, systematically blocking liberalization […]

For those who haven’t seen Polanski’s latest piece of slick political marketing, it begins with him walking and talking, Brilliant Kid-style, through a bleak area of London on a cold, overcast day. He describes the things Brits are doing to make ends meet, like working two or three jobs – but points out that our […]

I am not ashamed of loving women’s romance novels. And I am not alone. These books are loved by tens of millions of readers — mostly quietly, often quietly guilty. Our culture has trained people to sneer at things women enjoy, especially when those things are pleasurable: fashion, fiction, good food, beauty pursued for […]

Party primaries tend to discourage ideological heterodoxy. For Democrats, this makes getting pro-Israel candidates into office more difficult. Witness, for example, Scott Wiener’s ostentatious spectacle of shame in California. The progressive gatekeeping on Israel is so intense that candidates who simply don’t hate the Jewish state are having to obscure their heresy just to squeak […]

While in Davos, Switzerland, following his speech at the World Economic Forum, President Donald Trump signed the Charter of the Board of Peace. It is a key element in the White House’s 20-point plan, agreed to in October 2025, to end the bloody Gaza conflict. The plan has three parts. The first was the ceasefire […]