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Reporter’s Notebook: Daylight saving time fight puts Senate up against a ticking clock

Trump urged Republican senators to release holds on the Sunshine Protection Act, but lawmakers from northern states raise concerns about dark mornings.

US awards Raytheon $22.9B Tomahawk deal as Trump dismisses weapons stockpile concerns

The Department of War awarded Raytheon a $22.9 billion contract to accelerate Tomahawk missile production as Trump dismisses weapons stockpile concerns.

‘Sonia Sotomayor’s Confirmation Vote’

That’s the title of my new Confirmation Tales post, published last week while I was out on vacation. I contrast the 31 Republican votes...

Colleges Against Books

The Trump administration ought to get rid of Rule 164. At the very least, it ought to change the opt-out provision to an opt-in.

This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—August 17

 2006—In what one expert commentator aptly labels a “transparently political screed,” Michigan federal district judge (and Carter appointee) Anna Diggs Taylor rules that the...

One Crazy Summer

Memories of my father’s confirmation hearings, 40 years ago this month.

Examining RFK Jr.’s Role in the Measles Outbreak

Since becoming HHS secretary, RFK Jr. has presided over the highest number of measles cases in the last 35 years.

U.S. Leadership on AI Requires Strategic Interdependence

China is tapping America’s AI knowledge pipeline. The answer is managed precision openness.

What If AOC Took a Vow of Silence?

A conversation about politics and love really wants to be about the eternal.

New GOP campaign ad hits Democratic Senate hopefuls for trying to raise taxes on seniors

Republicans are accusing Democrats of wanting to raise senior citizens' taxes in a new ad campaign targeting the most important Senate races in the midterm elections.

JD Vance’s awful book

You start by arguing against “market fundamentalism,” “neoliberalism,” and “extreme libertarianism,” and you end by arguing against economics. Vice President JD Vance is the latest postliberal to embrace what is now, for all intents and purposes, an anti-growth position. In his latest book, Communion, Vance inveighs against those perennial straw men, the GDP-obsessed economists. We keep […]

Hakeem Jeffries wants to pack the court. Donald Trump wants to own it. Both are wrong

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) is right about one thing: The Supreme Court has a legitimacy problem. He is wrong about what to do about it. The House minority leader recently called for “dramatic” Supreme Court reform and refused to rule out expanding the court or imposing term limits on justices. His argument reflects Democrats’ growing […]

Comedy with a warning label: New Mexico wants the Babylon Bee to spoil its own jokes

I’ve spent 30 years drafting disclosure language for private placement memoranda. A disclosure has one job: warn the reader before he relies on something that might mislead him. New Mexico just tried to point that same tool at a joke. The Babylon Bee, the Christian satire site known for headlines no one mistakes for news, […]

Forget ‘justice’: The cold math of how the Ukraine war actually ends

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began this war. But assigning responsibility for how the war started is different from determining how it can end. After more than four years of fighting, the central question is no longer whether either side can impose a perfect outcome. It is whether a settlement can change the strategic calculation that […]

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