Recent articles in Enter Stage Right
The untold reason for Mamdani's mayoral win: Unless something insane happens -- or at least more insane than what has already happened -- the Democrats in New York City will be running an avowed Marxist as their candidate. Selwyn Duke explains why it happened
Memories of the summer of 2004 in Poland: Mark Wegierski recalls a happier time in East-Central Europe, twenty-one years ago
The war with Iran: Who won and who lost?: Israel has apparently shown its deterrence power, but Iran does not intend to give up its nuclear project and Khamenei views his continued rule as a major victory over Israel, writes Yoni Ben Menachem
The 12-Day Israel/Iran War: Protecting the civilized world: Nobody in Iran knows where Supreme Dictator Ali Hosseini Khamenei is, but the U.S. and Israel know exactly where he is, and he knows that, writes Mark Alexander
Supreme Court reaffirms that there are no special categories of discrimination: Bennett Nuss argues that a recent US Supreme Court ruling reaffirmed that reverse discrimination is still discrimination
Trump v Powell: The credibility cost of politicized monetary policy: Regardless of where you sit in the endless back and forth between Donald Trump and Jerome Powell, Nicolas Cachanosky argues that political interference in the Federal Reserve's agenda is a dangerous path for the president to chart
Dollar's decline meets rising dedollarization: The threat comes from within: The US dollar is facing pressures from all sides these days, writes Peter C. Earle, but at the moment its place as the dominant currency on the planet is still unchallenged
Burning trash for energy, people and planet: Paul Driessen argues that waste-to-Energy reduces landfilling, increases recycling, powers society and avoids blackouts
Between shame and power: Khamenei has no dilemma: The Iranian leader's strategic assessment is that to save himself — and more importantly, the regime — he must endure the shame of an agreement, argues Aviram Bellaishe
Returning to the Old Country, twenty-three years ago: Mark Wegierski revives memories of a mostly happier time in East-Central Europe, more than two decades ago
Spain's impossible dream of 'green' electricity: Paul Driessen argues that thousands of wind turbines and millions of solar panels essentially generated a massive blackout in Spain, Portugal and other countries earlier this year
Fed holds rates steady as stagflation worries mount: What do you get when you combine politicians desperate for economic growth and economists uncertain as to what to do? Well, writes Mike Maharrey, you get what Jerome Powell did last week: nothing
An American Patriot on that Big Beautiful Bill: In May, the House narrowly passed President Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a sweeping package combining major tax cuts, deep spending reductions, and military expansion, sparking intense debate over its fiscal consequences, prompting Mark Alexander to wonder what a famous American of the past might have thought
Are CVS, Mondelez and McDonald's silencing shareholders?: Companies would deny that they attempt to silence shareholders -- at least those they would rather not bring up uncomfortable topics -- but Stefan Padfield relates several personal examples which would appear to prove at least a few corporations do
Why prices never go down: Inflation has fallen sharply recently but high prices continue to plague Americans. Peter St. Onge argues that will never happen while the US Federal Reserve continues to play its min/max games with interest rates and money
Who were Biden's autopen puppeteers?: Mounting revelations about President Biden's cognitive decline and the alleged misuse of his autopen for sweeping executive actions -- including controversial pardons -- have triggered investigations into who was truly exercising presidential power, reports Mark Alexander
Comparing the Canadian and the American Right – updated to 2025 (Part Four): Despite brief Conservative gains under Stephen Harper, Canada's political landscape remains dominated by a powerful, well-resourced left-liberal establishment, leaving social conservatives marginalized, writes Mark Wegierski
Money wisdom from the Seminole Indians: The Seminole Indians rejected paper money in favor of barter and silver coins, writes Mike Maharrey, recognizing early on that fiat currency -- backed by a government they didn't trust -- was inherently unreliable
White lives don't matter: Progressive elites deliberately promote racial division, social decay, and anti-white animus through policies, media narratives, and cultural manipulation, all while suppressing dissent and evading accountability, charge Todd Gregory and Erik Gregory
Khamenei fears a collapse of the Islamic revolution: If the West wants to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power, argues Oded Ailam, it must target the real objective: regime change
Congress, don't kill Trump's GENIUS Act with unpassable amendments: Senator Josh Hawley is risking the passage of the pro-Trump GENIUS Act—a bill to strengthen the U.S. dollar through stablecoins—by attaching unrelated amendments, potentially handing a win to America's adversaries like China, says Horace Cooper
The U.S. dollar and delusions of growth: Clint Siegner says measuring assets in gold rather than dollars reveals that Treasuries, oil, and even stocks have underperformed over time -- exposing how dollar-based benchmarks can mask true value erosion due to inflation
What did DOGE really accomplish?: With US President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's relationship falling into bitter recriminations, Mark Alexander explores what DOGE managed to get done over the past few months
Comparing the Canadian and the American Right – updated to 2025 (Part Three): Mark Wegierski looks at mass education and mass media in both countries
On unsustainable corporate DEI hypocrisy: Did Verizon defraud the FCC?: Telecom giant Verizon promised the FCC -- in exchange for approval of its takover of a competitor -- that it had ended its DEI policies. Stefan Padfield wonders if that's actually the truth
Local elections reveal Lebanon's Shiite bloc faltering: Hizbullah's dominance has long been perceived as an unbreachable fortress, but the loss of voter loyalty suggests the subtle beginnings of collapse, reports Oded Ailam
