DEMOCRATIC PASSIONS CATCH FIRE OVER DEPORTED ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT. With all that has happened since January, one issue that has received less and less attention is the flow of illegal crossers over the U.S.-Mexico border. That’s because there no longer is a flow of illegal crossers over the U.S.-Mexico border. President Donald Trump stopped it in a […]

It hardly qualifies as news anymore, but according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, union membership declined from 2023 to 2024, going from 10% to 9.9% of wage and salary workers. Some 32% of public employees are union members compared to only 5.9% of private sector workers, down from 6.0% in 2023. This means 49% […]

At a rally at Columbia University last week, faculty brandished placards that read “Defend Freedom of Speech” and “Defend Academic Freedom.” One faculty member waved a sign reading, “No appeasement. I’m German. I know where this leads.” Joseph Howley, an associate professor of classics, said that “attacks” on free speech result in a “chilling effect […]

A startling report in New York Times Magazine has brought to light how the scientific consensus on attention deficit hyperactivity disorder has changed. According to one of the scientists interviewed for the piece, the concept of ADHD is facing an “empirical crisis.” ADHD’s hallmark symptoms of inattentiveness and restlessness present in a variety of ways. Individuals are easily distracted, […]

Rezo Kiknadze, a 26-year-old detained during anti-government protests in Tbilisi in December, faces six years in prison. In a Georgian court, Kiknadze addressed the judge and quoted Mario Vargas Llosa’s novel The Feast of the Goat: “This book is about a tyrant’s end — in the end, everyone leaves the dictator and he dies alone.” […]

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) has been losing favorability over the course of President Trump’s second White House term, according to a new survey released on Wednesday.  The Economist/YouGov Poll found that just 23 percent of U.S. adults have a favorable view of Schumer, while little over half, 51 percent, of respondents said they...

The Trump administration on Wednesday proposed to loosen federal protections for endangered species. A draft rule from the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) would repeal the current definition of “harm” that’s prohibited under the Endangered Species Act. The law prohibits activity that would “harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill,...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that the agency will launch a series of new studies aimed at finding the “environmental toxins” he believes are causing increasing rates of autism spectrum disorder.   “This is coming from an environmental toxin and somebody made a profit by putting that environmental toxin in...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell warned Wednesday that President Trump's aggressive new tariffs could both lower growth and raises prices — a dynamic known as stagflation, which is notoriously difficult for the central bank to control. In a Wednesday speech in Chicago, Powell said the economy could be “moving away” from the Fed's goal of...

Time is running out for some Walgreens shoppers to file for their part of a proposed class action settlement that accuses the pharmacy chain of overcharging for generic drugs.