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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? […]

Unearthed El-Sayed essay draws explosive Trump-bin Laden parallel: ‘recruited, radicalized and reassured’

Abdul El-Sayed's now-private 2021 blog post argued Trump should be treated like Osama bin Laden, calling the Capitol riot comparable to 9/11.

For AOC, the Time Is Now

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will probably never have a better opportunity to be elected president than 2028.

Duke Law Flouts Students for Fair Admissions

Duke Law is the latest institution to be exposed for defying the Supreme Court’s ruling.

If You’re Running for Office, You Can’t Be a Slimeball and Be Lazy

At minimum, you must be a hard-working terrible reprobate.

Lifelong Patients and Six-Figure Procedures: How Gender Transitions for Minors Became a Lucrative Business

The lifetime cost of care can total $170,000 if the patient undergoes multiple surgical procedures.

On a Possible Mangione Federal Guilty Plea

A federal guilty plea would probably doom Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg’s separate state murder prosecution.

Trump asks Supreme Court to approve his White House ballroom project

President Trump went to the Supreme Court Friday to ask permission to keep building his grand plans for a ballroom at the White House, telling the justices the project is "vitally required by national security."

Sen. Elizabeth Warren says ‘political corruption’ led to massive cyclospora outbreak

Sen. Elizabeth Warren is demanding answers from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. about what she calls "political corruption" and its role in the Trump administration's response to the biggest cyclospora outbreak on record in U.S. history.

New York City’s lone Republican in Congress accuses Mamdani, Schumer of ‘hypocrisy’ in voter ID fight

Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y. argues Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats block the SAVE Act while claiming to support voter ID in their districts.

Cuban ties put powerful US union under microscope over alleged communist influence push

Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Chair Bill Cassidy demands answers from IAM over alleged Cuban regime influence scheme.

WWII Memorial vandalism suspect now in custody, to be charged with two felonies, Pirro announces

Melissa L. Farris is in federal custody, facing two felony charges and up to 10 years in prison for allegedly vandalizing the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.

El-Sayed in the hot seat after ‘sickening’ animal control record goes viral on social media

Abdul El-Sayed's Michigan Senate bid faces scrutiny over thousands of euthanized animals at Detroit Animal Control during his tenure as the city's health director.

There’s a Bill Clinton–AOC Egg Connection

Monica Lewinsky and C. J. Cregg from The West Wing add to this week in politics and women’s reproductive systems.

Thirty Years’ Warning

It is not a good sign that the yields on 30-year treasuries continue to rise.

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