What the U.S. once planned, we must consider China capable of doing through TikTok. 

The Senate prepares to vote on President Donald Trump's budget bill as Senate Democrats and Republicans struggle to come to an agreement.

A Colorado Democrat compared parent groups to the KKK during a hearing on a bill that could charge parents with "coercive control" in custody battles if they "deadname" a trans child.

Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to make an announcement Friday to counter President Donald Trump's tariff hikes, asking countries to exempt California exports from retaliatory taxes.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski was the only Republican senator to vote against confirming Trump nominee Harmeet Dhillon to serve as assistant attorney general.

The United States is about to plunge into recession, pulling much of the world down with it. The tariffs announced by President Donald Trump on April 2 will reverse decades of rising wealth based on specialization and exchange, based on little more than his unfocused feelings. Announcing his new rates, the president claimed they were […]

There is an endless audience for the art of influence grifting, and influencer Paige Connell has found her niche: giving relationship “equity” advice. Truly, Connell’s antics reveal that she is just as unsatisfied with culture as the rest of us. A five-minute video filmed on Connell’s kitchen counter and titled “Why I considered divorcing my […]

“Sex is for fun. Embryo screening is for babies.” That’s one motto of industrial eugenicist Noor Siddiqui, whose company makes babies in a lab, investigates their genes, eliminates the undesirable ones, and implants the desirable ones. If you make babies the old-fashioned way, Siddiqui warned, you could curse your child with mental illness, obesity, brown […]

The Star Wars franchise has fizzled as a cultural phenomenon thanks to the contempt Disney has for the franchise and its fans. Actor John Boyega, who played Finn in the latest trilogy, has almost come around to this position. In 2020, Boyega voiced his frustrations with Disney for hyping up his character just to make […]

In 1759, British Adm. John Byng was executed by firing squad for “failing to do his utmost” to relieve Minorca, a Mediterranean island besieged by the French navy. This minor episode in the Seven Years’ War, known in these parts as the French and Indian War, inspired a scene in Voltaire’s satirical novel Candide. When the naif Candide […]