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Reporter’s Notebook: Congress dodged a fall shutdown, but the real fight looms

Congress avoided a government shutdown this fall, but midterm elections could spark a December spending battle or a new shutdown in early 2027.

Alix Earle admitting she’s never read a book is crazy, not sexy — and universities are making it worse

Earle recently said she's never read a book, save for “Like, maybe Dr. Seuss.”

Copyright Protects Against Training AI on Legal Headnotes

A federal court ruling is sure to spawn a thousand analogies in future lawsuits.

The Trump Administration Moves to Improve College Accreditation

College accreditation never did much to ensure quality education.

Am I Lying to Myself About the Death Penalty?

It is a scandal that Christa Pike’s execution was botched, but we must ask...

AOC inherits the Bernie Sanders lane for the Democratic presidential primaries

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has inherited the socialist lane for Democratic presidential primaries from Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), and the country should be prepared to face that fact in the 2028 elections. A recently released University of New Hampshire poll put Ocasio-Cortez’s support in the Granite State at 22%, just ahead of former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s […]

Deal with Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain by making it a prison

Tension is building over the purported relocation of nuclear centrifuges to Iran’s deep bunker complex inside Pickaxe Mountain. Located deep within the Zagros Mountain range, the complex is nearly 300 miles from the northern Persian Gulf. President Donald Trump stated on Tuesday that the United States would be bombing the complex “pretty soon, very heavily, […]

Medical students are being trained in left-wing activism. That puts us all in danger

American medicine is freaking out. Polls show that trust in medical professionals is the lowest in decades. Barely half the public has high levels of trust in doctors, with double-digit percentage declines in recent years. While the media is pointing the finger at politicians like President Donald Trump, the truth is that a different kind […]

Disarm, defund, destroy: The terrifying truth behind the DSA’s agenda

As its candidates win races nationwide, the Democratic Socialists of America is honing its message. The DSA’s new platform, released July 14, offers Marxist nostrums that would destroy American prosperity and liberty.  This is especially true on foreign policy, an often-overlooked aspect of the DSA agenda. The DSA wants a weak United States unable to […]

California doubles down on pension debt — and dares Congress to bail it out

On July 1, California’s Assembly Appropriations Committee advanced AB 1383, a bill that guts the pension reform Sacramento passed in 2013 to keep its own promises honest. It would drop the public safety retirement age from 57 to 55, invent a new 3%-at-55 benefit formula, and let cities bargain away the cost-sharing rules that reform […]

America’s AI buildout needs clear rules, not moratoriums

Washington spent years restricting China’s access to advanced semiconductors and the equipment used to manufacture them. Those controls protect an important American advantage. They do not tell states and communities how to evaluate the facilities needed to install, power, and cool those chips at home. New York exposed that omission on July 14, when Gov. […]

Wikipedia is training Google and AI to lie to you

We live in a world where access to information is more plentiful than ever, yet truth has never felt more elusive. AI summaries, 24/7 media, and never-ending social media “takes” create more opportunities for content to be corrupted by misinformation and disinformation. Wikipedia is another example. Fresh claims of left-wing bias have triggered congressional concerns […]

The grid just screamed a warning to Congress — and you’re paying for it

Electricity bills are rising fast and eroding household budgets for millions of the public. The median household in the bottom fifth of earners spends nearly 10% of its income on energy, while the top fifth spends around 1%. In 2024, 43% of adults in households earning under $25,000 reported being unable to pay an energy […]

Binders won’t stop bullets: When military AI can’t say ‘no’

Congress does this often: it passes a law directing an agency to solve a hard problem, and then the real work, the part that determines whether the law means anything, happens quietly inside the executive branch months later. A provision of last year’s defense authorization act is a clear case. Section 1513 of the Fiscal […]

The world’s deadliest conflict: Ignored from the UN to Michelle Obama

Over the past decade, jihadist violence in sub-Saharan Africa has killed more than 150,000 people — a toll that likely exceeds the entire recorded history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including after Oct. 7, 2023. Amnesty International has not called an emergency session of the U.N. Security Council, the university protesters are absent, and op-ed pages […]

Trump saved small business from a ticking time bomb. Congress needs to defuse it permanently

In 2025, President Donald Trump gave small businesses one of the largest regulatory relief victories ever by exempting U.S. businesses from the burdensome and unconstitutional Corporate Transparency Act. This little-known but highly intrusive law mandated that over 30 million small businesses register their beneficial ownership information with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. Failure to comply […]

The good Jew, bad Jew test: Say ‘genocide’ or get blacklisted

Progressives have increasingly claimed they condemn Zionists, not Jews. However, in practice, their efforts often use a very broad definition of who is a Zionist, unfairly harming Jewish individuals and organizations that are deemed not sufficiently critical of Israeli policies. Thus, they severely limit the Jewish individuals who are acceptable. The two most visible Jews […]

Sitting judge posts ‘F*** ICE’: The shocking double standard of Illinois courts

Cook County Circuit Judge Cynthia Ramirez posted two words about a federal law enforcement agency on social media: “F*** ICE.” Ramirez is a sitting judge. Yet, as of this writing, the Illinois bar associations that demanded Judge James R. Brown’s removal over political commentary he wrote while retired have expressed no comparable public concern. Illinois […]

The real cost of saying ‘no’ to Hezbollah in Lebanon

At this moment, the Lebanese government is participating in negotiations that may open the way to peace, greater stability, and the disarmament of Hezbollah. This direction enjoys significant support among Lebanese citizens across sectarian lines. Yet when we, as citizens, publicly support the same position adopted by our own government, we are threatened and punished. […]

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