A new report from the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) predicts the future turmoil driven by competition between free societies and the authoritarian-corruption nexus will be a “defining threat to freedom in the 21st century.” The report was presented by Clay R. Fuller, a Jeane Kirkpatrick Fellow at AEI, on July 8. Dismantling the Authoritarian-Corruption Nexus […]
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DHS and DOJ Increase Restrictions for Asylum Seekers
The Departments of Homeland Security and Justice announced Monday new restrictions for asylum seekers from third countries who pass through Mexico trying to enter the United States across the southern border. Specifically, the joint Interim Final Rule (IFR) allows U.S. entry to asylum seekers from third countries who qualify under three exceptions. They must demonstrate […]
Data Shows Declining Support for U.S. in Middle East
WASHINGTON—Preference for stronger U.S. relations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has dropped in Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon since 2016, according to new data from the Arab Barometer, a nonpartisan research network providing insight into social, political, and economic attitudes of citizens throughout the Arab world. The findings were presented at the […]
Hollywood, Surveillance Technology, and Privacy
WASHINGTON—On a night in 1998, an engineer from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and his wife went to the movie theater and watched Will Smith star in Enemy of the State, a film that features wide-area surveillance systems. “Where everyone else in the audience was no doubt terrified by what they saw on the screen, he […]
Raisi Groomed as Successor to Iran Supreme Leader
Hojjat ol Eslam Embrahim Raisi, tapped in March to head Iran’s judiciary, is now considered the favorite to be the next Iranian supreme leader, according to an American Enterprise Institute report released in June. Prior to his judicial appointment by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Kahmenei, Raisi was custodian and a chairman of Astan Quds Razavi, […]