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DHS Funded
Plus: FISA reauthorization, driverless trucks in California, and an Epstein suicide note.
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You Should Press the Red Button, Never the Blue Button
A MrBeast post is going viral on X, and the correct answer is obvious.
SCOTUS Narrows the Reach of the Voting Rights Act
Plus: The Supreme Court says “demands for a charity’s private member or donor information” raises First Amendment problems.
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Lindsey Graham Wants You To Pay $400 Million for Trump's New Ballroom
The president had promised that private donations would cover the East Wing renovation.
Zyn Pouches Are Safer Than Cigarettes. Why Are Some Politicians Targeting Them?
Making less harmful products harder to get pushes people toward more dangerous ones.
Corn Belt Politicians Are Using High Gas Prices To Push Even More Carveouts for Ethanol
“The sale of E15 year-round would help the ethanol industry and no one else,” says one agricultural policy expert.
Andy Serkis: What Orwell Understood About Tyranny
Andy Serkis discusses the corrupting nature of power, what Animal Farm says about modern authoritarianism, and whether technology expands or diminishes human creativity.
Government Shouldn't Be Important Enough To Fight Over
America’s political factions hate each other and torment each other when in power. Violence results.
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Rethinking Conservative Approaches to Executive Power
Conservative legal commentator Gregg Nunziata outlines reasons why conservatives should reject broad views of executive power.
Published Article: A Historical Record Of Special Counsels Before Watergate
"This Article presents a corpus of primary sources that were written by presidents, attorneys general, United States attorneys, special counsels, and others between the 1850s and the 1950s."
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By Dropping Her Criminal Probe of Jerome Powell, Jeanine Pirro Confirms Its Political Motivation
Even Republican critics of the Federal Reserve chairman's performance rejected the notion that he had broken the law by lying about the renovation of the central bank's headquarters.
Republicans Fumble Away Fiscal Conservatism in Stadium Subsidy Projects
Small-government conservatives are tripping over themselves to give millions of taxpayer dollars to billionaires.
Shots Fired
Plus: White House Correspondents' Association attacker was angry about strikes on Venezuelan boats and Iranian schools, another airline bailout could be coming, and more...
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Justice Clarence Thomas on the Declaration of Independence
Remarks by the current Supreme Court's longest-serving justice that stoked controversy.
Shooter Reportedly Targets Trump Officials at White House Correspondents' Dinner
Gunman subdued at security checkpoint.
Chernobyl Wasn't a Nuclear Disaster—It Was a Communist Disaster
Forty years after the Chernobyl meltdown, too many people are still drawing the wrong conclusions.
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Short Circuit: An inexhaustive weekly compendium of rulings from the federal courts of appeal
Vigilantes, less-lethal munitions, and a bananas ID theft case.
Michael Is a Brutally Dull Biopic With Nothing to Say About Michael Jackson
This one's no thriller.
Hasan Piker and Jia Tolentino: The Leftists Who Think Stealing Is Great
Actually, shoplifting is bad.
After Viktor Orbán's Defeat in Hungary, the 'New Right' Needs a New Foreign Despot To Admire
Hungary is Europe's basket case, a nation that saw little economic progress under Orbán—as well as diminishing freedoms.
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Chaos with the SPLC, Hasan Piker Endorses Violence, and Predictions Markets Run Amok
Robby Soave and Christian Britschgi break down this week’s bizarre turn of events: The SPLC got indicted, and Hasan Piker made more violent comments.
Two Cheers for Abundance Liberalism
This emerging school of thought has its flaws. But it's a potentially valuable ally for libertarians and other free market advocates.
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No, FDR Did Not Pull America Out of the Great Depression
"The New Deal made investment in America a risky project," says economist Donald J. Boudreaux, author of The Triumph of Economic Freedom.
DOJ Indicts Southern Poverty Law Center for Secretly Funding Extremists
"The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence," said acting Attorney General Todd Blanche.
Tariffs Are Driving Up Your Homeowners Insurance Premiums
When it costs more to build a house, it also costs more to rebuild one.
Virginia's Grotesque Gerrymander and the Bipartisan Death of Redistricting Reform
Republicans picked this fight, and Democrats responded by drawing some egregiously gerrymandered districts. In the end, voters lose.
The Lobster Triumphs
Plus: Tit-for-tat gerrymandering, D.C.'s flowing fountains, more war in the Strait of Hormuz, and more...
