Who knew the 3 R’s might include “relocation”? Enrollment is tumbling in many large California school districts — a trend on pace to accelerate. The California Post reported this...
Russian state-owned nuclear energy corporation Rosatom and Chinese shipping company Hainan Yangpu NewNew Shipping announced in 2024 that they would cooperate on operating an all-year-round container shipping route through the Arctic. Since then, shipping interruptions at flashpoints from the Panama Canal to the Red Sea have thrown the global economy into turmoil. Worse, increasing military and technological collaboration […]
Who shows up at a morning Mass on Easter Monday? It is a tiny portion of regular Mass-going Catholics who go to any given daily Mass. This day, in particular, offers more reasons not to attend: Many Catholics have just spent about eight hours in church over the past few days — Tenebrae, Holy Thursday […]
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is again under fire for sharing sensitive intelligence about impending military operations in Yemen on the messaging app Signal. This chat, which included the flight schedules for the F-18 Hornet fighter jets involved in the mission, was created on Hegseth’s personal phone under the name “Defense | Team Huddle” and […]
History has a way of repeating itself. In 1971, the predominantly minority inmates of Attica Correctional Facility in upstate New York staged a prison rebellion, demanding basic human rights, fair treatment, and dignity after increasing levels of violence and mistreatment by prison officials. That same year, Connecticut high schooler Susan Hollander sued Hamden High School for […]
Harvard University’s lawsuit to stop the Trump administration from freezing billions of dollars of federal funding encapsulates a tendency among those who receive grants and other taxpayer largesse to treat these subventions not as privileges but as entitlements. There is an old insightful maxim that he who pays the piper calls the tune. It should […]
California has yet another over-budget, unnecessary project in the works. State Democrats are intent on keeping key details about it secret, including how the money is being spent. The Capitol Annex Project is California’s attempt to build a new Capitol building, with offices for all state legislators, the governor, and lieutenant governor, as well as […]
Like a fleet of ghost ships, Biden-era antitrust actions continue to sail along, creakily sailing a Sargasso Sea of indecision by new Trump-appointed regulators. No one seems to be manning these phantoms. No navy seems willing to scuttle them, either. These legacy suits from former President Joe Biden against Amazon, Apple, Google, and others continue […]
This Earth Day comes on the heels of a remarkable turning point in conservation history: Scientists at Colossal Laboratories have claimed the first animal species de-extinction by recreating dire wolves through genetic editing. Some have argued that modifying animals (in this case, grey wolves) to resemble extinct species is not true de-extinction. Still, it is certainly a significant departure from […]
The Department of Homeland Security has demonstrated its priority is safeguarding citizens from criminal illegal immigrants. Whereas the Biden administration and current Democrats in Congress essentially provided big welcome mats for dangerous illegal immigrants, such as those who murdered Laken Riley and Rachel Morin, the DHS under the Trump administration is making protecting the public […]
If the White House is planning on unveiling a “new cultural agenda” designed to “reverse declining birthrates,” as the New York Times reports, it better explain why birthrates are falling and how they can be fixed, which the New York Times never does. Throughout her article, Caroline Kitchener often mentions “declining birth and marriage rates” […]
The death of a pope is a pivotal moment in world affairs. There are 1.4 billion Catholics worldwide, roughly 18% of the total population. The Catholic Church is a presence in every country, providing spiritual leadership and doctrinal guidance in addition to operating vital institutions such as schools, hospitals, and charitable enterprises. The Catholic Church shaped Western civilization, […]
