Data centers have become the new top scapegoat in American energy politics. Towns are freezing data center building projects, governors are piling on conditions, and Senate candidates are promising a pause, all while the argument stays fixed on the data center itself. What almost no one is fixing is the reason bills are rising in […]
Every single day, millions of Americans assume that dialing 911 guarantees an immediate digital lifeline. It does not. The reality behind our national emergency response system reveals a dangerous operational crisis. Our infrastructure is buckling. Across the country, local public safety answering points handle an estimated 240 million calls annually. This is according to data […]
Organ donation is one of the most selfless acts one human being can do for another. Our nation is home to thousands of these heroes like Cpl. Jacob Douglas Robert Brandon, a proud Marine who, in his passing, gave the gift of sight to two people in need and healed countless others through tissue donation. […]
There is tremendous concern that artificial intelligence could eventually become capable of destroying humanity itself. The scenarios vary, but share the same fear: an AI becomes extraordinarily intelligent, pursues an objective that conflicts with human interests, and comes to regard humans as obstacles. It might exploit biological research and gain control of a laboratory to […]
For 26 years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has delayed safety reviews for the dangerous chemical abortion drug mifepristone and defied every attempt to subject the drug to normal medical scrutiny. Still, the FDA claims, as it recently told the 5th Circuit during oral arguments in Louisiana v. FDA, pro-life states such as Louisiana […]
For the past 25 years, it has been my distinct pleasure to live in Australia since retiring from the United States Marine Corps. It requires only a modicum of historical knowledge to understand that Australia’s clearly strategic location in the South Pacific poses an existential threat to the Chinese Communist Party. This location, as it […]
Oil just broke $100 a barrel. Diesel has surged past $6 a gallon in parts of the country. Yet this week the Federal Reserve responded to the pain American families are feeling at the pump by raising interest rates for the first time since 2023 by a quarter of a percentage point. There’s just one […]
Three years after the Supreme Court told American universities to stop sorting applicants by race, the sorting hasn’t stopped. It just got a new address. On Sept. 16, Students for Fair Admissions filed a comment letter with the Treasury Department and the IRS, warning that “geographic location,” a factor Treasury listed as an acceptable race-neutral […]
The next few weeks offer a tremendous opportunity for President Donald Trump and his team to push world leaders for fair market access. As the administration conducts bilateral and multilateral engagements in New York at the United Nations General Assembly and Wisconsin for the G20 Trade Ministerial, we hope that it will continue to press […]
We are in the middle of what might be called a global AI freakout: Researchers warn of systems escaping human control, tech executives propose slowing their own frontier models, and Washington is consumed by debates over regulation. Anxiety over jobs, safety, data centers, and the concentration of wealth and power is coalescing into a huge […]
Tens of millions from the Soros family flow to Democratic allies as campaign finance records reveal over $40 million in disbursements before Election Day.