While Washington and Silicon Valley trade blows over export controls, cloud blackouts, and sovereign equity stakes, society’s daily digital foundation is being subtly transformed. The battlefield is corporate governance. Following Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s warning that foreign AI models distilled from stolen American intellectual property constitute “counterfeit software,” Washington is preparing a formidable regulatory lever: […]
Every election cycle now brings the same fight: one side insists noncitizen voting is a crisis, the other insists it’s a myth invented to justify purging eligible voters. Both sides are pointing at real data. New Jersey’s governor has acknowledged roughly 6,600 noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls, with about 400 having voted. Michigan and […]
Rosalie Markezih was looking forward to becoming a mother. But her story took a devastating turn when her boyfriend obtained abortion pills through the mail and pressured her into taking them, resulting in the loss of her child. Her story raises a question our country has been reluctant to ask: “What happens when abortion pills […]
Government welfare programs are, by their very design, incubators of waste, fraud, and abuse. During the pandemic, the Biden administration created even more favorable conditions for all three to fester and for programs to hemorrhage money. The government expanded benefits in some of those programs, loosened eligibility rules in others, and suspended basic verification requirements […]
The Justice Department sued Maryland on July 9 to block a state law barring local officers from asking about immigration status or holding people for federal pickup without a warrant. Maryland is now one of more than 20 cities, counties, and states the department has sued since January 2025, a tally that reached 27 lawsuits […]
According to a recent report, nine of the 10 premiers will now allow full free trade among all their provinces, at least insofar as beer, wine, and liquor are concerned. Canadians ought to bow down and kiss President Donald Trump’s ring. That is because this new provincial initiative emanated from his recent announcement of a […]
Wisconsin on Tuesday opened up early in-person voting for its primary elections, which include a chaotic five-way Democratic gubernatorial race and the party's attempt to flip the state's government to its control for the first time since 2010. Party infighting could give state Rep. Francesca Hong, a democratic socialist, the edge in claiming the governor's mansion,...
Texas state Rep. James Talarico, the Democratic Senate nominee in Texas, has widened his lead over his Republican opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, in a new poll. The results of the Texas Public Opinion Research (TPOR) survey, which were shared by The Texas Tribune on Tuesday, found Talarico had a 5 percentage-point advantage among...
Vice President Vance invoked the late Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-S.C.) fiery defense of Brett Kavanaugh at the then-Supreme Court nominee's 2018 confirmation hearing during Graham’s memorial service at the Capitol on Tuesday. "What he saw happening to Kavanaugh was not a policy disagreement, it was character assassination,” Vance told a crowd that included a bipartisan...