Estimated Reading Time: 6 minutes
In 2021, Facebook insiders began to leak internal documents that revealed the company’s executives knew its platform was being widely misused. Pornographers, human traffickers, pedophiles, drug cartels, and other unscrupulous users found a home on Facebook. Yet, time and time again, Facebook executives chose to ignore or minimize these problems. The leaks, however, became the […]
Estimated Reading Time: 8 minutes
Peter Schweizer is no stranger to the seamy side of American life and politics. Beginning with his 2011 book Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich Off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of us to Prison, Schweizer has routinely uncovered instances not just of malfeasance […]
Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes
China Unbound: A New World Disorder is a disturbing and clear-eyed account of China’s growing and malign influence around the globe: an account of organized repression of human rights, relentless suppression of criticism at home and abroad, and of a growing belligerency. This book shatters “the myth of a liberalizing China,” and exposes Beijing’s carefully crafted […]
Estimated Reading Time: 10 minutes
When Chinese President Xi Jinping visited Manila, Philippines during a 2018 state visit, he assured all that the two nations had entered a new era of diplomacy that promised to turn the long-disputed areas of the South China Sea into a “sea of peace.” Xi had previously issued an official communique that told the tale […]