"Brief Exchange": Top U.S., Cuban Military Leaders Meet At Edge Of Guantanamo Base

Megacities Are Booming The number of people living in megacities has been growing significantly for decades, rising from 2.5 percent in 1950 to 16.4 percent of city dwellers in 2020. As Statista's Katharina Buchholz details below, according to UN projections, this figure will continue to rise slightly before stabilizing at around the current level by 2050. You will find more infographics at Statista At the same time, living in smaller cities is becoming less widespread. The share of the urban population living in places with between 50,000 and 500,000 inhabitants fell from 50.8 percent to 38.6...

Time For Europe To Defend Itself Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, Americans shouldn’t fight for a suicidal continent. Four years ago, the Biden administration was working with the United Kingdom and the European Commission to pay for diminutive comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s war with the Russian Federation over territories where supermajorities of the population identify as Russian.  We were told that the Russian-speaking people of Ukraine “belonged” to Ukraine and that the only way to “preserve democracy” was to deny those people a democratic vote to join the Russian Federation. “Democracy” also apparently requires the...