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What Life Is Like in the US

Monica Hughes PhD themariachiyears.substack.com You asked what life is currently like in other countries. I lived in New Zealand from March 2015 to July 2021 and am a permanent resident. I left New Zealand in July 2021 and returned to the US. My short story is here. I

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Global Trade Is Battered but Not Broken

Global Trade Is Battered but Not Broken

Flavio Macau Edith Cowan University Russia’s first McDonald’s store opened in 1990, just months after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It was a potent symbol that the Cold War was ending and a great ideological wound was healing. Now every McDonald’s in Russia is closed, as

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The West Sits in Judgement

The West Sits in Judgement

It is no surprise to me how the international political class has reacted to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russia has always been hated because of the threat it poses to the international order. Since the end of World War II, the West, centred around America, has considered itself the

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Tell Us about Life in Your Country

Here at The BFD we currently have writers based in New Zealand, Australia, Israel, Hong Kong and the UK but we have readers from many other countries. This article is a shout out to writers in other countries asking you to please consider writing an article for The BFD telling

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Chained Woman in China – The True Story

Chained Woman in China – The True Story

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The Secret to Peace and Prosperity

Lawrence W. Reed fee.org Lawrence W. Reed is FEE’s President Emeritus, Humphreys Family Senior Fellow, and Ron Manners Global Ambassador for Liberty, having served for nearly 11 years as FEE’s president (2008-2019). He is author of the 2020 book, Was Jesus a Socialist? as well as Real

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The BFD World News Quiz

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The Vindication of D.A. Henderson

Jeffrey A. Tucker brownstone.org Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown. He is also the editor of The Best of

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When You Kick the Bread Basket of Europe We All Feel It

David Ubilava University of Sydney David Ubilava is a Senior Lecturer of Economics at the University of Sydney. His research interests are in commodity markets and price analysis. Russia and Ukraine between them account for almost a quarter of the world’s wheat exports. Russia and Ukraine are also big

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**If readers want this series to continue please send your original photos to window@thebfd.co.nz What can you tell us about this photo? Yesterday’s photo was a view looking across to Pohaturoa in the Whaka Forest.  Well worth doing the track up there for great views down

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