The Senate returns to Washington next week with an added obstacle to the already herculean task of passing the SAVE America Act: a narrow three-week window in which to act.
A federal judge recently sentenced a corporate executive who owned multiple telemedicine firms to two years in prison. His crime involved running a business brokerage that flooded the Medicare system with more than $110 million in fraudulent claims for unnecessary medical gear. Walking away from an eight-year conspiracy with a 24-month sentence has generated notable […]
By lowering standards to exploit parental anxiety, youth sports and gifted tracks have become expensive participation trophies. Political debates in Washington often miss what is happening in the real world. A good example is the recent fight over the future of the U.S. Department of Education. Headlines focus on budget cuts and restructuring, yet behind […]
Artificial intelligence has plenty of critics. But Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is quickly establishing himself as something more ambitious. He appears to be building the foundation for an entire anti-AI agenda. His latest proposal may be the most extraordinary yet. Earlier this month, Sanders and Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) announced the Ban Artificial Intelligence Act, […]
On Sunday, Sept. 6, roughly 29,000 Poles paid a television station’s government bill. The station is Telewizja Republika, for most of this year the most-watched news channel in the country and the largest conservative broadcaster in it. Since January 2024 it has been under an advertiser boycott it has never escaped. Viewer donations now rival […]
After several weeks of testimony and deliberation ending in a mistrial, the prosecution of Lindsay Clancy continues to capture national attention, becoming a touchpoint in the debate surrounding the dangers of feminism and the failures of modern psychology to address human sin. The vast majority of conservatives recognize that postpartum challenges or other stressors cannot […]
President Donald Trump did not write the CHIPS and Science Act. His administration has nevertheless found a distinctly Trumpian way to use it: When taxpayers finance industrial risk, taxpayers should share in the upside. On Sept. 8, the Commerce Department finalized $300 million in research and development support for D-Wave Quantum, Rigetti Computing, and Quantinuum. […]
For years, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has relied on a straightforward defense to shield his legacy from the tragedy of Oct. 7, 2023. His narrative has been simple: Israel’s military and intelligence chiefs kept him completely in the dark, and “no one woke me up” on the morning of the Hamas massacre. However, that […]
Jared Kushner is an observant Jew. On Saturday, Sept. 5, he sat in the Kremlin for more than three hours and stayed for dinner with Russian President Vladimir Putin. That was the Sabbath. It was also the night Selichot begins, the penitential prayers Ashkenazi Jews recite in the week before Rosh Hashanah. Jewish law permits […]
