China’s Battery Mineral Monopoly Poses National Security Risk: Report 

Employees work at a factory that produces lithium battery for export in Huaibei, China, on June 11, 2024. STR/AFP via Getty Images China monopolizes over 80 percent of critical raw battery minerals used in U.S. military equipment, posing a serious national security threat, new research has found. Beijing’s “brute force economics” utilizes a bevy of

Pipeline Operators Call for Congress to Close Loophole That Shields Vandals From Federal Criminal Prosecution

Fresh nuts, bolts and fittings are ready to be added to the east leg of the pipeline near St. Ignace as Enbridge prepares to test the Line 5 pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac in Mackinaw City, Mich., on June 8, 2017. The Canadian Press/AP/Dale G. Young Pipeline operators want Congress to amend federal law

Brzezinski’s Battles

The year 1950 was perilous for what then, unabashedly, called itself the Free World. In January Britain’s Labour government extended diplomatic recognition to Mao Zedong’s Communist China. The same month a New York jury convicted State Department luminary Alger Hiss of perjury, the statute of limitations for espionage having expired. Days later Wisconsin senator Joseph

What to know about the U.S. Postal Service’s past, possible future

The U.S. Postal Service is celebrating its 250th anniversary this weekend, and you won’t have to check your mailbox for the invite.  The agency’s semiquincentennial will be marked by an event at the Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, two and a half centuries since its founding. Two newly announced commemorative stamps