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Universal Healthcare Sounds Great. Here's What's Happening in Countries That Have It.
With calls for “free healthcare” growing louder in America, countries with universal systems offer a warning: long waits, rationed care, and unmet medical needs.
Texas Requires the Ten Commandments Be Posted in Every Classroom. SCOTUS May Decide If That's Constitutional.
A major separation-of-church-and-state case lands at the Supreme Court.
U.S. National Debt Just Surpassed $40 Trillion For the First Time Ever
Plus: ICE chillin', Moderna-Merck melanoma advances, and more...
ICE Handed Over Specific Iranians at the Islamic Republic's Request
Newly released FOIA files reveal a back channel between ICE's office in Israel, the Qatari government, and the Islamic Republic.
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DSA Goes for Florida
Plus: Fire Island, data center NIMBYism, cost-of-living discourse, and more...
ICE Admits It Investigated a Critic Based on Constitutionally Protected Speech
The agency’s attempt to intimidate David Streever is at the center of a First Amendment case.
Ibram X. Kendi Is Wrong About Jason Arday
Are the media responsible for the demise of a famous black professor at the University of Cambridge?
San Francisco's 'Historic Laundromat' Project Finally Begins Construction
Activists were able to block an apartment project in the city's Mission District by raising an increasingly ridiculous set of objections.
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Can America Survive Its Political Divide?
Kurt Andersen discusses the politicization of everyday life, generational conflict, and whether markets have failed younger Americans.
The Trump Administration Promised a Pivot From the Middle East to East Asia. It's Doing the Opposite.
The U.S. military is downsizing exercises in South Korea and pulling its last aircraft carrier out of the Pacific.
Appeals Court Upholds Right To Film Police—but Grants Immunity to Cops Who Arrested a Connecticut Videographer
The 2nd Circuit is the latest federal circuit court to find a First Amendment right to record the police.
Disney Sues FCC for 'Retaliatory' Investigation of ABC
"Government censorship is deeply un-American," the lawsuit states, before listing numerous times the government has tried to censor it.
Congress Is Trying To Give Trump More Tariff Powers. He Wants Even More.
A bill to sanction Russia would allow the president to place 100 percent tariffs on goods from countries that buy Russian fossil fuels.
Meme After Meme Shows Jayden Daniels Made One of the Dumbest P.R. Fumbles in Sports History
Plus: Why Kawhi Leonard and the Clippers are guilty, and why Shohei Ohtani is not
A Biological Need To Steal?
Plus: Trump threatens Oman, the cost of Medicare for All, and booze laws in Britain and Boston.
Trump Courts Another Legal Defeat on Birthright Citizenship
Less than two months after losing at SCOTUS, Trump tries again with more misguided executive orders.
Who Pays for Medicare for All?
Plus: Democrats reckon with the rise of the DSA, Trump scales back America's military presence abroad, and the case for letting kids play outside
West Virginia Wants To Use Data Centers To Eliminate Its Income Tax
The state's plan to attract large infrastructure projects is full of administrative hurdles and concedes many of the bad arguments made by NIMBY critics.
As France Pauses Social Media Ban, American Lawmakers Race To Restrict the Internet
France's top court ruled that a social media ban for under-15s would infringe on free expression and privacy.
Can Ozempic Solve the Sex Recession and Raise Marriage Rates?
Maybe “solve” is overstating it. But a recent study linked GLP-1 medications to a greater likelihood of marriage or cohabitation.
The Rise of Florida's 'Microschools'
Florida will pay $8,000 to cover tuition for any child who opts out of public school. The program is transforming k-12 education—and creating budget problems.
Open-Weight
Plus: "Blasphemous" talk in Texas, botox everywhere, ink on Mace, and more...
Lawsuit Argues That School Choice Is a First Amendment Issue
Nebraska plaintiffs say the state can’t mandate education and also control what kids are taught.
Euclidean Zoning: How Our 'Arbitrary and Oppressive' City Planning Scheme Got Its Name
Is it named after the father of geometry or a Cleveland suburb? Both.
August/September 2026
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9/11 and the Surveillance Ratchet
The U.S. government responded in ways that are so integrated into daily life that we no longer recognize them.
