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The Constitution of the United States has endured for over two centuries. However, our constitutional republic is threatened by vulnerabilities in the election process, corruption amongst our elected leaders and representatives, and censorship of political speech that is fundamental to a free society. Our republican form of government is further weakened by misinterpretations of the Constitution that diminish our rights, dilute the separation of powers, and delegate legislative power to the administrative state. The very meaning of what it is to be an American, replete with our exceptional political, economic, and social culture, is now threatened by massive, uncontrolled illegal immigration. We will hear from eight leading experts how we might remedy these problems, strengthen our constitutional republic, and restore the promise of America. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Political and social support for the sale of infants by women who need money is increasing in the United States, despite human rights campaigns to ban surrogacy and the parallel practices of organ sales and prostitution. Women who need money rent out their wombs to people who can pay as much as $200,000. This practice is promoted by a burgeoning fertility industry and uncritically cheered on by an expanding cadre of neoliberal LGBT activists. The public, our lawmakers, and even some health professionals are relatively fact-free regarding the adverse consequences of surrogacy for everyone except the purchasing parents and the businessmen who control fertility clinics.Surrogacy is a medical, ethical and legal disaster. The deliberately ignored rights of human beings who are harmed by this cruel practice must be heard.Join this expert panel for a discussion of why surrogacy in all its forms must be abolished. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Anti-Semitism impacts the lives of our Jewish friends and neighbors here at home and across the globe. It continues to fester on college campuses in the form of calls for Boycotts, Divestments, and Sanctions (BDS) against Israel and numerous instances of ostracization of Jewish students. Within the United Nations, resolutions incessantly malign Israel with outrageously false allegations while other acts seek to deny the historical ties of the Jewish people with the land of Israel. Here in the U.S., some elected officials use anti-Semitic tropes with seeming impunity. This panel will explain the dynamics of contemporary anti-Semitism and how we can work together to defeat it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Valerie Mayberry comes from the kind of wealthy family that would be royalty in any other country. Obsessive and compulsive, she’s also the FBI’s counter-intelligence expert on domestic terrorism.Brett Garrett is a dishonorably discharged ex-Navy SEAL coming off a secret opioid addiction. A brusque, fiercely independent operative who refuses to play by the rules, the seasoned pro is now a gun for hire, working as a security contractor in Eastern Europe.When a high ranking Kremlin official with knowledge of a plan to attack the US must be smuggled out under the nose of a kleptocratic Putin-like Russian president and a ruthless general, Mayberry and Garret are thrown together to exfiltrate him and preempt a deadly poisonous strike.As these unlikely partners work to protect their human asset, their mission is threatened by domestic politics: leftist protests, Congressional infighting, and a culture riven by hatred.Collusion raises many of the most significant issues facing America in real life today. Is Russia our ally, or our enemy? Are American leftist activists susceptible to influence from abroad? How far will our enemies go to disrupt our politics and weaken the nation? Can we trust the media to differentiate between the good guys and the bad guys? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As the first anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear agreement approaches, Iran and the United States remain locked in disputes on nuclear, regional, and terrorism issues. Although Tehran claims to be complying with the terms of the 2015 nuclear agreement, the revelations contained in Iran’s exposed nuclear archives have raised disturbing questions about Iran’s past nuclear efforts and future plans. A panel of experts examines the policy implications of these and other security issues. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join the Washington Examiner’s Kimberly Leonard for a bipartisan and wide-ranging discussion about the future of American health policy."Examining Healthcare" will feature keynote interviews with Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Senator Doug Jones (D-AL), both of whom are members on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee.There will also be two panel discussions with experts and industry leaders, one discussing the efficacy of harm reduction and another on drug pricing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The House of Commons has rejected the Withdrawal Agreement between Britain and the European Union proposed by Prime Minister Theresa May no fewer than three times. Public debate on this Agreement has focused on its inability to deliver the Brexit that Britain voted for in the landmark 2016 referendum because of the Agreement’s effects on trade, regulations, and the relationship between Ireland and Northern Ireland. However, the Agreement also has important intelligence, defense, and security dimensions. In his presentation, Professor Gwythian Prins, a member of the Chief of the UK Defense Staff’s Strategy Advisory Panel and emeritus research professor at the London School of Economics, will review the Agreement’s shortcomings in these dimensions and set out the risks it poses to the Anglo-American Special Relationship. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The U.S. military is pursuing innovative market-based strategies to combat declining recruitment and retention rates. Military personnel cite inadequate education options for their children as a major source of discontent. All too often, military personnel are placed in the impossible situation of choosing between their children’s future and their duty to their country. However, a recent proposal in the House and Senate seeks to alleviate this tension by offering education savings accounts to military-connected children. The new policy would allow parents to tailor their children’s education to their unique needs. These changes are imperative to ensure that the U.S. military remains an effective and ready fighting force.Please join us for a discussion about the effect of education savings accounts and the future of the U.S. military. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

North Korea remains in the international spotlight as Pyongyang and Washington continue to differ over the diplomatic path to denuclearization. Despite the continued focus on the security threat, North Korean human rights are largely absent from policy discussions. To get a better sense of how human rights fits into the Kim regime’s broader strategic calculus, three former members of the North Korean regime will discuss Kim Jong-un's strategy for maintaining power, his nuclear weapons programs, and insights on the current situation within North Korea.Then, a panel of distinguished U.S. experts on North Korea will focus on ways that the U.S. government can better integrate human rights into ongoing negotiations and explore the mechanisms available to hold the North Korean regime accountable for their poor human rights record.This program is part of North Korea Freedom Week, devoted to promoting the freedom, human rights and dignity of the people of North Korea, which first began in 2004. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Does the United States need an American Foreign Legion, recruited globally, to fight wars that have “moved beyond lethality” and that are now firmly entrenched in what many call “gray zone conflict,” that area between conventional war and idealized peace?“Cunning adversaries like China exploit the space between war and peace for victory,” while the U.S. remains stuck in a perception of war that favors conventional military operations increasingly irrelevant to the modern age.Please join us for a conversation with Dr. Sean McFate who, in his new book, proposes the new rules of war for an “age of entropy [in which] corporations, mercenaries, and rogue states have more power and nation-states have less.” Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.