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DOJ, Treasury investigate nonprofits and leaders allegedly coordinating with Cuba in influence campaign

Murder charges against Raúl Castro trigger a rapid activist response that federal officials investigate for ties to an alleged Cuban influence operation.

‘Moderate’ Dem’s unearthed ‘deconstruct’ law enforcement comments draw fire from GOP critics

New Mexico Democrat Gabe Vasquez is accused of hypocrisy after 2020 defund the police posts resurface amid his new pro-law enforcement messaging.

Inside the rise of hardship politics as wealthy Democrats eye 2028

Governors Newsom and Pritzker lean into family trauma narratives to connect with voters as they build national profiles ahead of a possible 2028 run.

Albany saved some of its ugliest budget poison for last

Gov. Kathy Hochul and the Legislature's leaders saved the worst for last: The final bits of their budget deals include some truly ugly idiocy.

AG Letitia James has some explaining to do on Medicaid

Attorney General Letitia James runs the state's Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, which is charged with prosecuting those who rip off the taxpayer-funded program.

This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—May 23

1957—Three Cleveland police officers arrive at Dolly Mapp’s home seeking a suspect wanted in connection with a recent bombing. After Mapp refuses to admit...

Taiwan: The Small Superpower

If the island nation’s chip production were to be interrupted, the global economy would stop in its tracks. That’s real leverage.

Lionel Jospin and the Dismantling of French Education

How the French left destroyed a public good.

The Trump Slush Fund Is an Abuse of Political Power, Not a Legal Wrong

Once again, Trump is doing what Democrats did, just far more ostentatiously.

Rated W for woke: The FCC should upgrade the TV ratings system

Thirty years ago, Congress decided that parents deserved a way to monitor what the entertainment industry was beaming into their homes. The Telecommunications Act of 1996 recognized that children are influenced by what they see on television and that the entertainment industry has a role to play in helping parents navigate their children’s media consumption. […]

Andy Serkis turns Animal Farm into anti-capitalist slop

When George Orwell published Animal Farm, his biting critique of the Russian Revolution and the totalitarian communist regime that followed, in 1945, the novel was denounced as anti-communist propaganda and immediately banned in the Soviet Union. Director Andy Serkis, who appears to share at least some of the Soviets’ aversion to political mockery and rebuke […]

Congress is solving the wrong rail safety problem

For generations of American families, railroading has been more than a job; it has been a way of life. Parents passed down careers to their children. Communities grew around rail hubs. Entire family trees were built on the promise that hard work on the railroad could create opportunity and stability for the next generation. That […]

COVID patients died in crowded hospitals while ICU beds sat unused. Hantavirus could expose same flaw

The deaths from a hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship have set off an international scramble over the past month to trace hundreds of passengers. But the question we should be asking is not whether the hantavirus outbreak becomes the next pandemic. It is whether hospitals could be better prepared than they were in 2020 […]

‘Abusively presented spat’: Judge dismisses author Michael Wolff’s suit against Melania Trump

A federal judge on Friday dismissed Michael Wolff’s lawsuit against first lady Melania Trump, launched after she threatened to sue the author for defamation.  “There are many features of this case that make it complicated: the prominence of the personalities involved, the scandalizing content of the underlying statements, and, frankly, an inappropriate level of tactical gamesmanship,” U.S. District Judge Mary Kay...

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