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This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—August 16

1996—One reason that the Ninth Circuit is so dysfunctional is that it fails to make responsible...

The Trouble with the Soft Sciences

The tale of Jason Arday is a reminder of how today’s social scientists often...

Chris Bohjalian’s novel ‘The Amateur’ is an ambiguous, confusing read

Chris Bohjalian’s The Amateur tells a story from the perspective of an adult looking back at a decades-old pivotal event she sometimes misremembers. The event and its consequences shift their shape. Sometimes the story seems to be about killing someone with a golf ball. Sometimes it is about adult men who take sexual advantage of […]

The UN can say it a thousand times — abortion still isn’t international law

There is no legally binding international treaty that establishes abortion as a human right. Yet governments around the world are increasingly told they are violating international law if they refuse to legalize or expand abortion. How did a right that nations never negotiated become one that international institutions now claim governments are obligated to uphold? […]

Top Dem operative brushes off latest scandal plaguing Maine Senate candidate as ‘salacious gossip’

Donna Brazile declined to comment on the report that Maine Senate nominee Troy Jackson fathered children with his second cousin, calling it gossip.

DSA brand on trial as El-Sayed struggles where Dems can least afford it

Abdul El-Sayed struggles to unify Democrats after the divisive Michigan Democratic Senate primary, giving Mike Rogers a 51%-47% polling edge.

Gun rights gets ‘greatest restoration’ in 100 years with latest Trump DOJ move, lawmaker hails

Rep. Andrew Clyde calls the ruling removing the $200 tax on silencers and short-barreled rifles the greatest Second Amendment restoration in a century.

Socialist in Trump country gives Karl Marx vision thumbs-up before ducking key tax question

Oliver Larkin defended taxing billionaires "out of existence" but repeatedly refused to give Sean Hannity a specific tax rate during their heated exchange.

Trump scores major immigration victory as judge clears way to end TPS protections for thousands of Somalis

Trump scored a major legal victory as a federal judge in Boston lifted a stay blocking the termination of Somalia's TPS designation.

Veteran pediatrician hails Medicaid shift ending youth sex-change treatments: ‘This is not denial of care’

Pediatric endocrinologist Dr. Quentin Van Meter said the policy shift comes amid what he described as a collapsing medical framework behind the youth transgender movement.

Legal expert calls for Smithsonian leadership overhaul over ‘self-loathing’ portrayal of history: ‘It’s bile’

Heritage Foundation's Cully Stimson calls for Anthea Hartig's firing at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History over DEI concerns.

DNC interfaith meeting exposes party’s Israel-Gaza rift ahead of midterms

The Democratic Party's deep fractures over the Israel-Hamas conflict spilled into the open at its interfaith gathering Friday as Jewish and Palestinian American members squared off over charged phrases like "from the river to the sea" and the word "genocide."

DFW Airport scraps controversial Islamic footwashing station plan as Texas Gov. Abbott takes aim

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott directed a review of state grants to DFW Airport and George Bush Intercontinental over planned Islamic wudu ablution stations.

Reagan National Airport makes drastic change following deadly 2025 midair collision

Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport received new surface movement radar to help controllers track aircraft on runways in low visibility.

El-Sayed’s half-sister offered Oct. 7 ‘blessing’ one year after Hamas attack: ‘Allahu Akbar’

Eman Abdelhadi delivered an "October 7th blessing" without mentioning those killed by Hamas, as brother Abdul El-Sayed campaigns in Michigan.

Trump leaves stage mid-speech to embrace parents of 12-year-old killed by stray bullet in the Bronx

President Donald Trump left the stage mid-speech at the Nassau County Police Academy to embrace the parents of Jacob Freytes, a 12-year-old killed by a stray bullet.

Mangione Pleads Guilty in Federal Court

Mangione’s lawyers contend that his federal guilty plea to a stalking charge bars Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg from pursuing a state murder charge. ...

Using Mild Language to Sell ‘Rights of Nature’ Radicalism

We can’t let activists’ non-threatening demeanors seduce us into complacency.

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