She didn’t want this job! — How would she feel about the first-ever U.S. default? How does she feel about high inflation? My guest, Jon Hilsenrath, a senior correspondent of the Wall Street Journal, tells us exactly how Secretary Yellen feels about inflation (a stain on her record), and would feel about the first-ever U.S. …

From Atatürk To Erdoğan — From Atatürk to Erdoğan. From Secularism to Islamism. From a parliamentary system to absolute presidential power. Türkiye is set to hold a runoff election next week, on May 28th, between President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the opposition leader, Mr. Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu. And the general consensus is that Erdoğan is in…

End of Title 42 — As Title 42 expires this week, America is expecting a deluge of immigrants to pour over our border with Mexico. The strains of migration from our southern border are not limited to the border states of Arizona, Texas, New Mexico and California. They are felt as far away as Chicago…

Self-Coronation History — King Charles III was crowned by the Archbishop of Canterbury. And the king didn’t have a problem with this arrangement. Why? As my guest, Dr. Jaume Aurell, tells it, many monarchs have performed self-coronation. What is interesting is that they did this, perhaps defying firmly adhered-to precedence, to establish their…

Dominion v. FoxNews & History of Defamation — Dominion v. Fox News… It’s been a long and windy road from Walter Cronkite to Tucker Carlson… The history of defamation suits against journalists is quite colorful. More than mere legal standards of proof for litigants, it goes to the core of our country’s liberty and freedom of the press. …

How did we get here? — Kansas City shooting of a Black teenager who was at the wrong address, New York woman in the wrong driveway shot dead, Alabama birthday party mass shooting, Nashville school mass shooting, Half Moon Bay mass shooting, Monterey Park Lunar New Year mass shooting, and many, many more! How did we…

Israel’s History of Democracy & Politics — Mass protests in Israel against Mr. Netanyahu’s judiciary overhaul plan virtually brought the country to a standstill and threatened to split the military and drag it into the current political conflict. My guest for this episode, Dr. Gideon Rahat, explains that this is one of the direst crises in Israel’s…

From the Fall Bastille to Retirement Reform — King Charles canceled his much-anticipated official visit to France that was scheduled for the end of March due to nationwide protests by the French. France is now approaching three months of mass demonstrations against President Macron’s pension reform bill, which increased the retirement age from 62 to 64. …

And…what’s a free banking system? — Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank are the two midsize banks that just collapsed. But…how can we have major bank failures, with billions of dollars at stake? Didn’t we learn how to regulate banks during the financial crisis of the Great Recession? That was barely 15 years ago! In this…