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This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—August 14

2023—Montana district-court judge Kathy Seeley rules (in Held v. Montana) that sixteen Montana children have standing to challenge the constitutionality of Montana’s state energy system, and, further, that a state law...

Elite Universities Reward Disgraced Leaders with Million-Dollar Soft Landings

Administrators who violate laws, policies, and basic standards of conduct are getting huge payouts instead of pink slips.

The Great Divergence: Why America Keeps Pulling Away from Europe

Our comparative prosperity flows from allowing creative destruction.

Public Schools Shouldn’t Be Fiefdoms of Government Speech

A new Nebraska lawsuit seeks to free students and parents from government indoctrination in classrooms.

A Better Approach to the Firearms Law Dispute

There is a counterintuitive way for the Trump administration to put a correct Texas ruling nixing part of the National Firearms Act on a...

Conservative Infighting Stretches Back to The Freeman

The 1950s-era magazine set the stage for future fights on the right.

‘Girl math’ is smarter than gambling

I love explaining what “girl math” is to my friends who gamble because they seem to think that I’m the financially irresponsible one. In reality, their hobby costs them more than girl math ever could, and is quite frankly, unattractive.   The science behind girl math is focused on the change in one’s bank account. Things […]

Stop calling it Sunni NATO: The Saudis aren’t ditching America — they’re just buying insurance

On Aug. 7, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement, a mutual-defense pact declaring that an attack on any one signatory will be treated as an attack on all three. Two days later, Iran-aligned Houthi forces attacked Saudi Arabia and Saudi-backed forces in Yemen anyway — an early test of what […]

If America won’t build Saudi Arabia’s reactors, Beijing will

American interests in the Gulf region, including advancing an accommodation between Saudi Arabia and Israel, have been undermined by the present quagmire. The Saudi priorities include protecting its infrastructure and addressing the danger posed by an Iranian nuclear weapon. The latter helps explain the kingdom’s pursuit of a nuclear program, including fuel reprocessing and enrichment, […]

Premiums up, doctor pay down: Who really benefited from Obamacare?

Sixteen years after passage of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), America has accumulated enough experience to ask a question that extends beyond any one administration or political party: Where did the money go? The Affordable Care Act fundamentally reshaped American healthcare. Millions gained health insurance, and protections for patients with pre-existing conditions became permanent law. […]

Pragmatic primary pivots in the Midwest

Heading into Aug. 11’s primary elections in a pair of Upper Midwest states, the conventional wisdom led many observers to expect certain outcomes. In Wisconsin, socialist Francesca Hong was running away with the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, we were told, with multiple polls showing her in a dominant position. In Minnesota, pillow magnate Mike Lindell received […]

Trump says humans control the bomb. The code doesn’t know that yet

President Donald Trump has made a clear promise on military artificial intelligence: move faster without breaking the constitutional chain of command. His June 5 national-security AI memorandum orders the Pentagon to accelerate adoption of advanced systems while making them reliable, steerable, controllable, and accountable. It also gives the Pentagon 90 days to update its directive […]

North Korea isn’t winning with nukes. It’s winning with our boredom

North Korea has launched yet another missile. On Aug. 6, Pyongyang fired an unidentified projectile into the East Sea. South Korean and Japanese authorities immediately assessed the situation, and military authorities braced for the possibility of further provocations. Yet, this news no longer halts South Korean society in its tracks. A breaking news alert flashes, […]

Italy’s Giorgia Meloni faces a far-right general

ROME — For years, the European commentariat has warned that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni would drag her country back toward dark traditions. The real test of that prophecy may now arrive in the form of a former army general whose politics make Meloni look like a liberal. Roberto Vannacci’s new far-right party, National Future, […]

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