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For more than a century, America’s greatest strength has been its ability to attract the world’s most talented people — the scientists, engineers, researchers, and entrepreneurs who made the U.S. the center of global innovation. The H-1B visa was introduced in 1990 and became the modern tool for sustaining that legacy, offering a structured pathway for highly […]

  The world is constantly changing; some periods feel relatively calm, while others are marked by rapid innovation, disruptions, challenges and even wars. We are clearly in one of the more turbulent phases right now, but also one that is defined by truly fundamental shifts that could prove as transformative as the transition from the […]

  Growing up as a Catholic in the Netherlands, in my formative years between childhood and adulthood, I witnessed the seemingly irreversible process of secularization and the increasing de-Christianization of European society. I never expected in my lifetime to see the halt of those developments or their reversal. Yet this is what I am seeing […]

  Advent should be a peaceful time in expectation of Christmas, the season of love and peace, and the turn of the year. Yet not only during Advent, but actually the entire year 2025 was overshadowed by wars, which is culminating now at the year’s end. The most terrible tragedy is happening in Sudan, but conflicts […]

  On September 30, 2025, Ford Motor Company CEO Jim Farley – having just returned from China – warned that if the American automaker loses the competitive battle with its fast-growing Asian rival, it stands to lose everything. This is because China’s automotive technology has achieved comprehensive superiority while automated factories operating without humans have […]