A troubling trend has been escalating across the Northeast, where states such as New York are enacting so-called “climate superfund” laws. These laws seek to impose sweeping financial penalties on energy producers for past activities that were perfectly legal at the time. In doing so, these efforts raise serious questions about causation, fairness, and accountability. […]
The good news: With its session ending March 14, Virginia’s legislature did not pass State Sen. Saddam Salim’s (D-Fairfax) bill (S.B. 624) to make “Islamophobia” a crime. The bad news: instead of defeating this measure — unnecessary at best, dangerous at worst — legislators carried it over to 2027. A tale of opposites: In 2022, […]
Republicans in the Utah Legislature are advancing the “AI Transparency Act,” a measured bill that tries to impose basic accountability on the biggest, most powerful AI developers in the world. The bill, H.B. 286, does not create a new regulatory agency. It does not micromanage technical design choices. It does not hand trial lawyers a […]
Turbocharged by social media, a long-debunked antisemitic conspiracy theory is back and helping fuel the sharp rise in anti-Jewish sentiment. What once lived on the fringes of the internet now widely circulates on major platforms and has been repackaged to delegitimize Israel, erase Jewish history, and dress ancient prejudices in the language of “science.” This […]
The joint U.S.-Israeli air campaign against Iran represents a genuine opportunity for long-term Middle Eastern stability. The early results are good. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is dead, as are dozens of senior Iranian military and political figures. The regime is already heavily decapitated in a way that is historically unusual. The hunt for Saddam Hussein […]
The current U.S.–Israeli campaign against Iran reflects a shared judgment in Washington and Jerusalem: Constraining Tehran without threatening regime survival is no longer sustainable. For decades, Washington and its allies managed the Islamic Republic through sanctions, covert disruption, proxy containment, diplomacy, and calibrated force. These measures imposed costs while preserving the assumption that the regime […]
The United States is again in a Cold War, this time with China. Our enemies are doing all that they can to steal away the U.S.’s advantage. Those guilty of aiding and abetting U.S.’s enemies don’t deserve leniency. On Feb. 25, the Department of Justice announced that it had arrested a former Air Force officer, […]
Recently, Evanston, Ill., enacted the first reparations program in the country. San Francisco is following suit, but its reparations plan is less about policy...
California does not have to choose between honoring survivors and protecting today’s students. We can do both. We need commonsense guardrails that restore balance and...
