Freedom
Why Ukrainians Won’t Give Up
Just as America is the land of the free, so is Ukraine. Freedom is the highest value in Ukraine.
Why Dissolving RFE/RL and VoA is a Major Geopolitical Blunder
If you want to find real warfighters in America’s history, RFE/RL’s and VoA’s journalists perfectly fit the definition.
How Marines Can Fight the Stifling of Independent Thought
The nation is suffering from the loss of open, respectful, inclusive, and professional dialogue. At the very time when the complexity and interrelatedness of issues require independent thinking from multiple...
Emerging Technologies Can Protect Democratic Freedoms
After the 9/11 terror attacks, lawmakers created a bipartisan commission to ensure that one of the darkest days in U.S. history would never be repeated. Today, threats to the United...
GLADIO: An Insurance Policy to Keep NATO Free
Stay-behind (GLADIO), a clandestine doctrine applied across Southern Europe and the NATO periphery, was once the bedrock of the alliance’s security and the function of many nation states from the Turkish...
Strengthen the Open Technology Fund to Counter Digital Authoritarianism
On May 14, the foreign ministers of the G7 issued a statement condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine and reiterating the importance of internet freedom. The statement read, in part,...
Biden Urges Collective Action as Summit for Democracy Begins
More than one hundred world leaders attended the first day of President Joe Biden’s Summit for Democracy on Thursday, at which he urged them to “lock arms” to safeguard democratic freedoms and...
How Economic Reforms of the 1980s Changed the Face of Vietnam
The Heritage Foundation has published the annual Index of Economic Freedom to assess the levels of economic freedom in 178 countries. Since the survey began in 1995, no other country...
Help Wanted: America Must Resume Its Postwar Role of Promoting Freedom
“We’re at an inflection point,” President Joe Biden told the Munich Security Conference the other day, “between those who argue that . . . autocracy is the best way forward”...
Dysfunction and Inequality Are Putting Democracy Under Threat
The Book of Daniel tells that the King of Babylon, Belshazzar, holds a great feast for his noblemen when suddenly a hand appears on the wall writing mene-mene-tekel-upharsin. As no...
Rep. Bi-khim Hsiao: Taiwan’s Resilience Shows the Power of Freedom and Democracy
October 10 marks the 109th birthday of the Republic of China (Taiwan). We invite friends from around the world to celebrate the founding of this unique and special sovereign nation. Also,...
The U.S. Economy Is Becoming Less Free
The Economic Freedom of the World: 2020 Annual Report, co‐published today in the United States by the Fraser Institute and the Cato Institute, ranks Hong Kong, Singapore, New Zealand, Switzerland, and...