We already know this rule: You aren’t permitted to leave a museum without running into a gift shop. I also discovered late last week in Paris that you can’t walk out of the newly restored Notre-Dame cathedral without passing a large gift zone near the arrow that points to Sortie de secours. And you can’t […]
At first glance, Blackie & Co.: Blackbirds in My Garden, by the English writer Hockley Clarke, is quite unsurprisingly a nice little book about blackbirds. Namely, two birds, father and son, whose relationship with Clarke began one bitter night in 1962. It was Europe’s coldest winter in 80 years, and, to give the bird a […]
The Army announced Wednesday that its Janus Program has selected five companies to build nuclear microreactors at five military installations, committing up to $2.2 billion to an effort that could eventually put more than 20 reactors across War Department facilities. It is the latest evidence that President Donald Trump’s revival of American nuclear power could […]
President Donald Trump's push to acquire Greenland added a new security dimension to Iceland's EU referendum, with 275,000 eligible voters weighing in.
Addressing business leaders this week, President Donald Trump argued that the economy was “roaring.” He added that gasoline prices, which are at four-year highs, will be “going down very substantially.” The average cost of a gallon of gasoline is around $4.50. That is a 50% increase from just a year ago. High gasoline prices are a major […]
At a Seattle University forum last month, Mayor Katie Wilson delivered what may go down as the most economically illiterate applause line of the year. Asked about millionaires fleeing Washington over the state’s new 9.9% income tax on earnings above $1 million, the self-described socialist waved her hand and said, to cheers from the crowd, […]
After two years of dramatically increasing numbers of antisemitic incidents, the Anti-Defamation League announced on Wednesday that it recorded the highest number of physical assaults in 2025 of any of its annual audits. These attacks resulted in more than 300 victims. And for the first time since 2019, antisemitic attacks claimed lives, with three people […]
Admittedly, as a conservative-leaning listener, it is difficult to tune into National Public Radio and not support the 2025 Republican-led rescission of its federal funding. On any given day, story selection will likely lean into niche liberal issues such as transgender rights or abortion access, or, more recently, the Iran war understood through its impact […]
A recent discovery in Appalachia could unlock U.S. dominance in lithium, an increasingly critical mineral. Policymakers should eliminate processing and regulatory hurdles that have kept similar riches locked away and ensure that the United States is well positioned to take advantage of its richness in this important asset. Last week, the U.S. Geological Survey announced […]
Democratic lawmakers are racing to make it harder for independent journalists and citizen watchdogs to ask questions, publish names and connect the dots.
LA firefighters union chief Freddy Escobar didn’t set out to become the latest casualty in Mayor Karen Bass’s endless game of political self-preservation.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas recently argued that modern progressivism has abandoned the principles of equal natural rights in the Declaration of Independence in...
