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 […]
In the six months ending May 31, SpaceX satellites performed 207,152 propulsive collision-avoidance maneuvers. That is more than 1,100 a day. The figure is not evidence of recklessness. It reflects a conservative safety threshold, a fleet operating at unprecedented scale, and an unusually transparent public accounting. It is also a policy alarm bell. At this […]
You can buy THC drinks at grocery stores, convenience stores, and online, because they are marketed as “hemp-derived.” But testing the drink itself generally cannot tell us whether that claim is true, or whether it actually contains marijuana. That regulatory blind spot has helped intoxicating THC products move far beyond marijuana dispensaries and into ordinary […]
George W. Bush recalled visiting a mosque six days after 9/11, declaring "Islam is peace" to protect Muslim Americans facing harassment across the country.
Republicans at the GOP midterm convention in Dallas reflect on Charlie Kirk's assassination one year after the Turning Point USA founder was killed at a college event.
