As the U.S. midterm election season commences, inflation is obviously front and centre, but Irit Tratt argues in the American Spectator that voters’ motivations may go far deeper. According to Tratt, Republicans in Arizona, Florida, West Virginia and 15 other states have made meaningful strides by championing choice in education, reflecting the gathering grassroots backlash against critical race theory, trans indoctrination and incompetent public schooling.

Toppling a Communist Empire for $2.7 Million
Though widely thought of as focused on waterboarding terrorists or poisoning foreign potentates, it was by smuggling paper that the CIA achieved its most monumental triumph. R.M. Gerecht in a book review for The Washington Free Beacon charts how the late Cold War-era operation to flood Poland with Western books, magazines, printing supplies and audio recordings fatally weakened the country’s Communist dictatorship, setting the stage for the downfall of the entire Soviet empire. Total cost: US$2.7 million.


