In a bit of X discourse so dumb that it culminated in the vice president fat-shaming a newspaper columnist, the right-wing commentariat has spent the last 48 hours arguing over whether burritos are too expensive. Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire began the dialogue by blaming “insane” grocery prices on “stupid foreign wars,” followed by […]
As the Senate gears up to vote on confirming acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, pro-life groups are hoping that the Trump appointee will do everything necessary to put a stop to mail-order abortions across the country. A leaked phone call shows that he seems to have his pro-life priorities straight. The July 30 phone conference, […]
ON MICHIGAN, KEEP BIG PICTURE IN MIND. The first thing to say about Abdul el Sayed’s victory in the Michigan Democratic Senate primary is that it’s not a story about polls. OK, it is a story about polls — they were really, really bad, and el Sayed’s win was much narrower than predicted — but that […]
EVERETT, Pennsylvania — On a humid stretch of late summer, in the kind of Pennsylvania where school buses still trace two-lane roads past cornfields and corner diners, education policy rarely arrives as a headline. Instead, it shows up in quieter ways. For example, a parent asking about tutoring after a shift change, or a grandparent […]
One of the upsides of New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s $70 million state-run supermarket project is that it allows rational Americans to watch socialism fail in real time. Mamdani Marts promise to provide 30% discounts on core grocery items, which means they’ll be heavily subsidized by taxpayers. Most grocery chains already operate with a slim […]
The Democratic Party is in the midst of nominating as many racists and antisemites as it can find. As such, any of those candidates losing provides a nice respite from the bleak headlines about the hateful candidates who win. The former group includes former Rep. Cori Bush. Rep. Wesley Bell handily defeated Bush in the […]
“I felt like it was such a transactional experience,” Khloe Kardashian said on Season 3 of The Kardashians. “It’s not about [the baby]. I wish someone was honest about surrogacy and the difference of it.” Whether it is gestational surrogacy — in which the surrogate has no genetic relationship to the child — or traditional […]
As the dust settles on the Michigan Senate primaries, Republican candidate Mike Rogers must be popping open a bottle of champagne right now in celebration of the results. Not due to his own primary — he ran uncontested — but the Democratic primary, where radical leftist Abdul el Sayed has defeated moderate Rep. Haley Stevens […]
Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-NC) is dropping his reelection bid amid a House Ethics Committee investigation into his behavior that includes hitting on his young female staffers, asking them out on dates, and excessively expressing his too-warm feelings for them. Read the NPR coverage of Edwards’s behavior, and you’ll get many of the cringey details, absent […]
America is having the wrong conversation about data centers, and if we don’t get the conversation right, we risk talking ourselves out of our own national competitiveness. Across the country, communities are debating new projects. Questions are being raised about grid impact, water usage, land development, tax structures, and local quality of life. Those concerns […]
Concerns are growing about the national security implications of artificial intelligence. As frontier AI models grow more capable, their ability to break free from their controls grows with them. Case in point: the recent OpenAI and Anthropic incidents. According to recent disclosures, OpenAI’s most powerful models not only went rogue and hacked the AI open-source […]
