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3+ hour, 6+ min ago (67+ words) Eugene Volokh | 4.7.2026 3:00 AM NEXT: Iowa Law Requiring Parental Notification as to Accommodations "Intended to Affirm [Public School] Student's Gender Identity" Upheld Charles Oliver | 4.7.2026 4:00 AM Jacob Sullum | 4.6.2026 3:30 PM Jason Russell | 4.6.2026 12:15 PM Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.6.2026 11:45 AM Eric Boehm | 4.6.2026 9:30 AM...
Brickbat: School Daze
2+ hour, 5+ min ago (59+ words) NEXT: With His Grandiose White House Ballroom Plan, Trump Again Asserts the Power To Do As He Pleases Charles Oliver | 4.7.2026 4:00 AM Jacob Sullum | 4.6.2026 3:30 PM Jason Russell | 4.6.2026 12:15 PM Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 4.6.2026 11:45 AM Eric Boehm | 4.6.2026 9:30 AM...
Affordability Theater Is a Band-Aid, Not a Cure
3+ hour, 21+ min ago (496+ words) There's a particular type of lie that dominates American political discourse these days. It's not a factual lie, but a conceptual mistruth: the promise that you can make life more affordable without actually making anything cheaper. Call it affordability theater....
Trump Risks Losing the Plot—and the War—in Iran
3+ hour, 19+ min ago (1465+ words) The president has been vague about strategy and his endgame. - Jonathan Ruhe - Start a free trial today for full access. Trump Risks Losing the Plot'and the War'in Iran Turn any article into a podcast. Upgrade now to start listening. Just…...
Trump’s Animus Against NATO Could Lead to a Geopolitical Disaster
3+ hour, 20+ min ago (182+ words) In brief, Trump appears to believe: All of the above are palpably false. It is conceivable that Trump, despite the impediments created by Congress, might attempt to create a fait accompli by simply announcing the U.S. was withdrawing and daring anyone…...
You’re Fired, Pam Bondi
3+ hour, 6+ min ago (1210+ words) Pam Bondi is no longer attorney general, Steve Bannon's case is sent back to lower courts, and the Chiles decision on conversion therapy becomes nonpartisan. Order Sarah's book here. David French is a columnist for the New York Times. He's…...
Feeding Our Future: sentence #9, two years probation
11+ hour, 27+ min ago (431+ words) Bekam Merdassa was the very first Feeding Our Future defendant to plead guilty in the case, way back in October 2022. Today, he became just the 9th defendant to be sentenced. At the federal courthouse in downtown Minneapolis, Judge Nancy Brasel sentenced…...
Kansas parents frightfully unaware of extent of online dangers to kids, US attorney warns
6+ day, 20+ hour ago (1476+ words) A dad putting his young son to bed offhandedly points to a box of porn in the corner of the child's bedroom, asking him not to look at it during the night " "even the really weird stuff that could scar…...
More Fraud: LA School Official Accused of Steering $22M for Personal Gain
6+ hour, 5+ min ago (317+ words) California now spends roughly$150 billion annually on K12 education, more thandouble its inflation-adjusted spending from the early 2000s. Per-pupil spending has climbed to approximately $18,000 statewide, placing California among the higher-spending states in the country. The contracts themselves were not peripheral; they were…...
From Plato to the IRS: The Tax Joke Is on Us
6+ hour, 1+ min ago (551+ words) I love April, but as a self-employed writer, I'm knee-deep in tax receipts and spreadsheet misery. I love to hear what our great minds have said about their own tax miseries: "We contend that for a nation to try to…...