Sanctuary New York refused 16,070 ICE detainers covering more than 52,000 criminal charges. Here is what a detainer is, and why the jail is safer. The Department of Homeland Security says the State of New York has refused 16,070 requests from ICE to hold someone in jail, and that those people carry ...
Surviving Communism, part two: the Soviets told their people taxes were 13 percent. The real rate was 92 percent. Survivors explain the famous photos. Jenny Beth Martin put the iconic photographs of communism on the screen, Tank Man at Tiananmen Square, the toppled Stalin statue in Budapest, the Rom...
Berlin Wall: for thirty years one country ran two systems side by side. A West German explains why the wall went up, and why nobody ever ran east. Jenny Beth Martin puts a photograph of the Berlin Wall under construction on the screen and brings in Torsten Trey, who grew up in West Germany and is ma...
Soviet tax rate: the people were told 13 percent. A physicist the KGB expelled built a model of the system before his exile. His number was 92. Jenny Beth Martin puts a photograph of a Soviet food line on the screen and asks Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev, a physicist and Moscow Helsinki Group dissident exile...
Mamdani's housing plan asks the oldest Soviet question, says a physicist the KGB expelled: who decides who gets what? The middle class loses first. Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev modeled the Soviet economy from inside it and found a hidden tax above 90 percent, with what was left handed back by loyalty to the...
Iran: stop in the middle and you do not win, you lose, says a Soviet dissident who briefed Reagan. The regime has consolidated, not collapsed. Jenny Beth Martin says it plainly: we have to finish the job we started in Iran. Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev, a physicist the KGB expelled from the Soviet Union in ...
Mamdani's housing plan asks the Soviet question, says a physicist the KGB expelled: who decides who gets what? Not voters, not merit. A small clique. Jenny Beth Martin asks Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev what he would say to the people talking about housing right now. She sees two things in it: the claim of a...
Affordability is the communist motto in disguise, says a Soviet dissident the KGB could not silence. Even President Trump uses the word now. Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev was born into the Soviet Union in 1949, the third generation of his family to live under communism, and he spent his life fighting it from...
Battle of ideas: there is no defensive strategy, a Soviet dissident says. Reagan went on offense and won. Compromise with the left loses step by step. Jenny Beth Martin puts the problem to him: some conservatives are willing to sacrifice just a little. Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev, a physicist who joined th...
Affordability means to each according to his needs, a Soviet dissident says. That is the communist motto, and even President Trump uses the word now. How do you fight communism when the people drawn to it think Stalin is ancient history? Dr. Yuri Yarim-Agaev, a physicist who joined the Moscow Helsin...