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Nothing Was Gained From 20 Years in Afghanistan
Why did it take presidents so long to realize this?
Is Face Mask Skepticism Beyond the Pale?
A rational debate requires acknowledging both the strengths and the weaknesses of the scientific evidence.
DEA Seizes Life Savings of New Orleans Grandfather Without Charging Him With a Crime
The case is the latest example of people who say their savings were seized in airports, despite it being perfectly legal to fly domestically with large amounts of cash.
Don't Excuse Biden for His Botched Afghanistan Withdrawal
You can both support withdrawal and recognize its failed execution.
New Zealand Closes Restaurants, Schools, Vaccination Sites in Response to 1 COVID-19 Case
"Do not congregate. Don't talk to your neighbors. Please keep to your bubbles," said Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern when announcing the new lockdown.
Why We Shouldn't Fear a Climate Apocalypse
Environmental scientist Roger Pielke Jr. says many media interpretations of the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report are "irresponsible."
Facebook's Taliban Policy Could Delete a Lot More Than Just Pro-Taliban Content
Plus: Biden won't budge on Afghanistan, the link between cruise ship vaccine passports and free speech, and more...
Even COVID-19 Couldn't Kill REAL ID
The ID overhaul, presented as a national security safeguard more than 15 years ago, still hasn't been fully implemented.
We Need To Get Afghans Out of Afghanistan Too
What Afghan civilians need now is resettlement, not remilitarization.
Biden's Determined Humility Regarding Afghanistan Is What America Needs Right Now
"I will not repeat the mistakes we've made in the past," Biden said Monday.
Infrastructure Bill Tries To Boost Number of Toll Roads While Exempting Almost All Drivers From Tolls
A new grant program that would help states set up privately operated toll roads would also forbid charging tolls to anyone making under $400,000 a year.
If Texas Businesses Are Free To Require Face Masks, Why Can't They Require Proof of Vaccination?
Gov. Greg Abbott's position on private vaccination requirements is confused and confusing.
Some Ohio Judges Are Mandating Vaccinations as a Condition of Probation. That's an Abuse of Power.
Threatening somebody with prison for refusing a shot is no way to end a pandemic.
Afghanistan: A 'Sudden Fall' Two Decades in the Making
Plus: A history of U.S. sex work prohibition and its harms, against the Open App Markets Act, and more...
States Are Finally Starting To Rein in Deceptive Police Interrogation Techniques That Lead to False Confessions
Devastating examples of how coercive interrogations can lead to false confessions have led Illinois and Oregon to become the first states to limit when police can lie to suspects.
Free Society Dwindles as Permission Requirements Grow
Many things once done as a matter of right are now privileges to be dispensed or withheld by those in power.
COVID Power Proves Tough To Kick
Politicians and bureaucrats are addicted to foisting their arbitrary reopening rules on everyone else.
Homeland Security Says Americans Upset by 'Public Health Safety Measures' Could Be Terror Threats
The new advisory “is not based on any actual threats or plots” but is purely a response to a “rise in anti-government rhetoric.”
Why Welfare Reform Worked
Work, not dependency, was what lifted many people up out of poverty.
This Innocent Man Spent 23 Years Behind Bars. He's Suing the Police Who Put Him There.
Ricky Kidd wants accountability.
The Cuomo Pandemic Scandal No One Is Talking About
Setting aside the harassment claims and the nursing home debacle, the Cuomo administration’s inability to run a minimally functional rent relief program should forever end his reputation as a competent executive.
As Defamation Lawsuits Against 3 Election Conspiracy Theorists Proceed, They Will Get Another Chance To Present Their 'Evidence'
Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Mike Lindell can still beat Dominion Voting Systems in court by showing that their accusations were true.
Nicole Kidman Leads Nine Perfect Strangers Through Tense New Age Melodrama
David Kelley brings another Liane Moriarty book to life.
Solar Panel Manufacturer That Hasn't Produced Solar Panels Since 2017 Seeks Extension of Solar Panel Tariffs
What good is protectionism that isn't protecting anything?
Washington's Top Court Cracks Down on Excessive City Fines
A homeless man’s truck was impounded in Seattle and he couldn’t afford the costs to get it back. That’s unconstitutional, justices rule.
Amy Coney Barrett Declines To Block Indiana University COVID-19 Vaccine Requirement
The university's vaccine requirement will remain in force.
After 18 Disastrous Years, the U.S. Should Withdraw All Troops From Iraq
I witnessed firsthand how U.S. actions that favored one group inevitably angered another, which is why the war is an endless game of whack-a-mole.
3 Unvaccinated Florida Teachers Died, the Media Rushed To Blame Ron DeSantis' Mask Ban
DeSantis was wrong to restrict options for COVID control in Florida schools, but the push to blame mask bans is misdirection.
Conservatives Are Asking You To Disbelieve Your Own Eyes
The political right's movement toward authoritarianism is exemplified by its refusal to embrace facts that don't conform to their alternative reality.
Opening America's Doors Only to the Vaccinated Isn't Good Enough
A vaccine mandate for international visitors cuts Africa off for no good reason.
Texas Wins the Census
Plus: Oregon ditches high school proficiency requirements, new vaccine rules in San Francisco and New Orleans, and more...
With Free Guy, Hollywood Gives Us a Video Game Movie About the Thrills of, Uh, Labor Disputes
Ryan Reynolds stars as a video game character who discovers his whole life is a lie.
Oppressive Regimes Reach Beyond Their Borders
Fleeing isn't enough to keep dissenters safe from tyranny.
COVID Diaries NYC
The HBO documentary provides plenty of examples of people conflating moral and medical judgments.
New Jersey Congressmen Want To Exempt New Jersey Drivers From New York's Congestion Tolls
The bill would strip New York of federal transit funding if Manhattan-bound Garden State motorists aren't spared from new tolls.
A Federal Cop Devised a Bogus Sex Trafficking Ring and Jailed This Teen for 2 Years. The Cop Can't Be Sued.
The most powerful officers are held to the lowest standard of accountability.
U.S. Is Becoming More Urban and More Ethnically Diverse, Says Census Bureau
People who checked the "Some Other Race" or racial combination census boxes are now America's second largest ethnic group.
Rand Paul's Criticism of Cloth Masks Was Stronger Than the Evidence Justifies
Whether or not YouTube should have suspended him, the senator overlooked the limitations of the studies he cited and ignored countervailing research.
A Philly Man Who Spent 37 Years of a 50-Year Prison Sentence in Solitary Confinement Has Been Freed
Arthur Johnson spent his entire adult life in jail for a murder he says he was coerced to confess to by police.
Former Staffers Condemn Cruel Treatment of Inmates at a Texan Prison for Sex Offenders
The men must keep masturbation diaries, wear ankle monitors, and even use penile circumference gauges.
CDC Took Mistaken Data on Delta Variant Transmissibility From a New York Times Infographic
Plus: Dominion defamation suit against Trump lawyers can proceed, prices rose 0.5 percent in June, and more...
