President Trump wants the U.S. to host the World Cup again, but next time he suggested the country should do it alone. The president celebrated the success of this year’s tournament at the FIFA World Cup reception in New York City’s Trump Tower on Friday evening ahead of the final match between Argentina and Spain. ...
Epstein survivor Jess Michaels said Friday that she left a meeting with acting Attorney General Todd Blanche this week “disappointed, disturbed and undaunted.” Blanche agreed to meet with survivors of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein under pressure from Republican Sen. Thom Tillis (N.C.). The lawmaker holds a key vote in Blanche’s confirmation process...
2014—In State v. Gleason, the Kansas supreme court expressly acknowledges that the U.S. Supreme Court “has explained that its Eighth Amendment jurisprudence on capital sentencing...
We live in the Golden Age of the internet. The cost of internet connectivity is at a historic low, and the Trump administration is only continuing to auction off more government-controlled broadband access to the private sector. The Federal Communications Commission will soon vote on auctioning 160 megahertz of spectrum in the Upper C-Band next […]
I recently retired after decades on the faculty at the University of California, Santa Cruz, including 10 years as chairman of my chemistry department. Like many scientists, I’ve spent my career on problems that don’t yield to slogans: building evidence, testing claims, revising conclusions. Universities work when that ethic governs campus life. But across the […]
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani recently unveiled a map of the city’s “Immigrant Enclaves,” and the backlash was immediate. The map celebrated dozens of neighborhoods, from Little Palestine and Little Pakistan to Little Yemen and Koreatown, but it ignored iconic Italian, Irish, and Jewish communities that have long defined New York’s immigrant story. The omissions […]
I’m 41, and I still shed a tear if American sunscreen gets in my eyes. It stings, smells, and no wonder American parents struggle to get their children to put it on. It doesn’t have to be this way, and people in Sydney, Athens, and Saint-Tropez have known this for 25 years. European sunscreen provides […]
Among the signs of civilizational collapse are sinking fertility rates, a culture that promotes the postponement or abandonment of the pursuit of family life, and the release of a widely acclaimed movie that denigrates marriage itself. “One should always be in love,” reads the quote by Oscar Wilde that opens the rancid new comedy-drama The Invite. […]
