Our 10 Most-Read Articles of 2025
The essays you liked most this year, from the daily geopolitical analysis Fox Business calls “absolutely phenomenal”.
by Rod D. Martin
December 31, 2025
It was one of the most eventful years in modern history, and in some ways the most transformative.
We published literally hundreds of articles this year, giving you in-depth analysis of everything shaping our world, wholistically not piecemeal, so you could see the whole board.
These were the 10 articles you liked most, PLUS 3 Bonuses:
1. The Free Trader’s Case for Trump’s Reciprocal Tariffs
In 2018, Donald Trump told the G7 that in an ideal world, there would be no trade barriers at all. But of course there are: as just one example, before this summer’s EU trade deal, Germany charged the U.S. four times the tariff on autos that we charged them. That’s absurd. Trump’s strategy? Rebalance and renegotiate from there. In the end, he may do more to advance free trade than all who came before him.
2. The Illusion of Chinese Strength: Power, Paranoia, and the Temptation of War
Time is not on China’s side. That makes the next decade the most dangerous. But hardly anyone in the West understands why. In this Deep Dive, we look at the geopolitics of China, and the constraints diving its short-term actions as well as its future.
3. Yes, There Will Be Arrests
After two decades of two-tiered justice, conservatives are skeptical. But Donald Trump just spent four years in exile, being prosecuted and shot at, thinking through every moment of his return. The cases take time to build, yes. But here’s how they’re getting built…and why.
4. Military Starship: How SpaceX Is About to Make America Globally Dominant
Starship makes possible a world where the U.S. can deploy an entire armored division anywhere on Earth in under an hour, and supply it entirely from home. “Hegemony” doesn’t begin to cover it.
5. Juneteenth: No, America’s Wealth Wasn’t Built By Slaves - Slavery Held Us Back
There’s a reason the North wiped out the South: free men create, innovate and prosper, slavery freezes development in place. By 1861, the difference was stark.
6. Should Alberta Become the 51st State?
The case for secession, statehood, and a freer western Canada, and why that may be a lot more likely than you think.
7. The Palestinians Are the Colonizers
The historical case for Israel’s legitimacy — and the DARVO that turned Islamist conquerors into “victims”.
8. Elections Have to Matter: “Independent” Agencies Are Grossly Unconstitutional
If Presidents can’t control the Executive Branch, elections don’t really matter. The Administrative State exists to perpetuate unelected Democrat control, no matter who wins or loses. That’s the design; it’s also been America’s reality for 90 long years. It has to end.
9. Deep Dive: Why Trump’s Deportations Are Legal, Constitutional, and Long Overdue
Deportation isn’t dictatorial. It’s required. And Due Process means only the process that’s actually due.
10. How Trump Is Quietly Dismantling Russia’s Strategic Perimeter
As Moscow fixates on its Ukrainian quagmire, Trump is rewiring the Caucasus, Central Asia and even China’s incentives — leaving Russia exposed on every border.
…And We Have Bonuses!
These almost made the Top Ten, and they’re certainly both important and special. Enjoy!
1. Trump Tariffs Will Isolate China, Not the Other Way Around, Expert Says
Martin Capital founder and CEO Rod Martin discusses whether President Donald Trump's tariffs will result in a new global world order on Fox Business "Making Money with Charles Payne".
2. Daddy’s Home: Trump’s “Transactional” Foreign Policy Is Anything But Retreat
The critics cry “isolationism,” but Trump is making the U.S. more dominant than ever — by turning dependent allies into strong partners. Here’s the Trump foreign policy in a nutshell, and it’s not only entirely coherent, it’s surprisingly Reaganesque.
3. What’s With Girls and Penguins?! - The Biology and Theology of Cuteness
Cat videos, along with bonnet-clad chickens, baby fainting goats, mini cows, and an entire army of cuteness has taken over the female half of society. And that’s a good thing.
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Daily geopolitical analysis that Fox Business calls “absolutely phenomenal”.
Great work all year