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Even an illusion has a basis in reality. Recently, I watched a cardinal attack its own reflection in a car mirror, mistaking its appearance for...
In 1886, Friedrich Nietzsche published Beyond Good and Evil. One hundred and forty years later, the book still asks its original question: what...
Congress has already taken the necessary steps to close the dangerous “hemp loophole.” Now, the House of Representatives has a simple choice:...
Surveillance tech vendor Flock Safety is making some changes to both its policies and messaging following months of backlash over its products —...
I’m not a science guy, and chances are, neither are you. But when you start to notice that a series of controversial tech-related headlines are...
The practice of medicine requires a high level of personal accountability. Physicians make life-or-death decisions every day, accepting the profound...
Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is capable of deciding that he wants to run to become the leader of the free world, but the California governor can’t take...
“This is not your father’s Oldsmobile.” General Motors adopted that advertising slogan in the 1980s to revitalize one of its storied brands, and...
In early 2022, China launched the Eastern Data and Western Compute initiative, a cornerstone of President Xi Jinping’s long-standing ambition to...
Whether it’s the President Donald Trump assassination attempts, the shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson by Luigi Mangione, or the...
In less than three weeks, American medicine produced two milestones worth noticing. On Aug. 5, the Food and Drug Administration approved MFLUSIVA,...
From Sumerian scribes to the Patriot Act, government is the management of information by institutions. A state’s reach is proportional to its...
At first glance, Blackie & Co.: Blackbirds in My Garden, by the English writer Hockley Clarke, is quite unsurprisingly a nice little book about...
We already know this rule: You aren’t permitted to leave a museum without running into a gift shop. I also discovered late last week in Paris that...
The Army announced Wednesday that its Janus Program has selected five companies to build nuclear microreactors at five military installations,...
Republicans are caught between a golden age and a dark age as they head into the midterm elections. Does America have the “greatest economy in our...
Immanuel Kant’s categorical imperative demands that we act only on principles that could hold as universal law. Apply that test to free-riding, and...
Imagine seeing four doctors in three years and leaving every appointment with the same answer: your labs look “fine,” you’re probably just...
In a free society, the waitress at the DMV does not face apathy and lethargy from her public servant. She is the sovereign. The clerk is her employee,...
Dolly Parton was not, as I always think of her, an Aquarius. She was technically a Capricorn, as befits her indefatigable work ethic and prodigious...
College sports are dying right before our very eyes, held together by strands of rules and integrity that are being clipped one by one. The latest...
President Donald Trump’s China summit arrives amid heated AI competition with Beijing and a related debate over America’s semiconductor supply...
The November of my senior year in high school, I stayed up until midnight watching the 2020 election. The campaign season and election were...
Watching Mayor Zohran Mamdani carry on in New York, I am reminded of Lord Percy of Newcastle’s ominous definition 75 years ago of “social...
For over a decade, the U.S. government was a crypto whale. Thanks to dark-web busts and asset forfeitures, Washington quietly built a large digital...
A popular cause begins to gather steam. Originating from leftist activists, it attacks its target with unremitting focus and ferocity. The movement...
Those who wish to breezily dismiss or ridicule the left-wing Democratic Socialists of America amid the organization’s ongoing hostile takeover...
Recent U.S. intelligence assessments suggest that Russian President Vladimir Putin is increasingly tempted to authorize provocations targeting NATO...
Our political battles increasingly share a common theme: each side fears what the other will do when it controls the machinery of government. Battles...
The Pentagon may have ceased its offensive in Iran for now, but the latest front in President Donald Trump’s war on the dictatorship is global. In...
We all have our childhood Christmas memories. I think of dad reading ’Twas the Night Before Christmas and the nativity story from our massive family...
I am an efficient but unspectacular cook. I have a sense of how long to sear a New York strip steak before putting it in the oven, and on a recent,...
The United States has removed Syria from its list of state sponsors of terrorism as the Trump administration seeks to shape an emerging new order in...
Desperate to end Western support for Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin is escalating his threats against NATO. Because Putin pays little heed...
Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-PA) is the leader of the Keystone State. Millions of Pennsylvanians rely on him to advise them on important matters, government...
An “-ism” is simply what your mind is willing to put time and effort behind. In America, you may choose yours so long as it does not extinguish...
Don’t look now, but Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are returning to the United Kingdom and to the headlines. My reaction? As Valley Girls used to...
The big debate over American healthcare is stuck in a trap. Government officials treat Medicare like a simple math problem on a budget spreadsheet,...
America does not have a single healthcare crisis. It has affordability, access, and safety crises. Washington has divided them by party, and each...
As the fall election season takes shape, voters say the country is on the wrong track by 24 points. Yet when asked whether they feel optimistic or...
The recent announcement by the Department of Health and Human Services that it will move to decertify one of the nation’s organ procurement...
Democratic Socialists of America are all the rage. Its media-savvy candidates are competing for and winning primary and general elections against its...
You’re not imagining it: Air travel really is becoming more unpleasant. Sure, COVID-19, germophobia, and mask mandates were a short-term catalyst of...
We’ve all become used to computer-generated scenes of disaster — of meteors thudding into the Earth with the force of a thousand nuclear...
Free speech means the right to protest, criticize, and organize, including about Israel, including from Hollywood. It does not mean the right to be...
The U.S. Forest Service filed a proposed rule today to erase a 25-year-old federal restriction covering nearly 45 million acres of national forest....
I have kept quiet about this for far too long. I have worked in grassroots politics for decades — on local races, statewide races, presidential...