Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent touted President Donald Trump’s economic record Wednesday night at the Republican National Committee’s Midterm Convention while issuing a stark warning about what he says Democrats would do if given control of Congress. Looking to the future, Bessent said that in order to honor the first 250 years of the United States, Americans must “meet the […]
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Civilization is not the natural state of man. It is a fragile achievement, painstakingly constructed over thousands of years through laws, customs, certitudes, and discipline. Barbarism, by contrast, requires no effort. All a society has to do to achieve barbarism is abandon its laws and generally accepted code of conduct. Which brings me to 2026 […]
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Sami Winc: It’s the 25th anniversary of 9/11, and I know that we’ve been watching New York and [New York Mayor] Mamdani, and there are a lot of people who are not happy Mamdani might come to ceremonies commemorating those who died on 9/11. Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the latest edition […]
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I was born two years before Sept. 11, 2001. I belong to the first generation of Americans for whom the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon are not a personal memory. Because I do not remember the morning itself, the television images, or the atmosphere of fear and uncertainty that settled over […]
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Dunkirk took nine days to pull 338,226 soldiers off a beach in 1940. On September 11, 2001, roughly 800 mariners on about 150 boats moved as many as half a million civilians off the south end of Manhattan in about nine hours. Ferries. Tugs. Dinner boats. Pilot boats. Yachts. A retired fireboat. Rubber dinghies that […]
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First, Hunter Biden did not launch a stablecoin. He launched a meme coin. Those are not cousins. They are not even in the same building. A stablecoin is supposed to sit still. One token, one dollar — or close enough that you can park money overnight without praying. The backing is cash, Treasuries, or some […]
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A professor of pan-African studies with a leadership role in Black Lives Matter urged her audience to “f— up” an officer with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Sunday, stating that there should be nowhere the agent could “go where they are comfortable.” Melina Abdullah, a professor of Pan-African studies at California State University, Los Angeles, identified the ICE […]
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The philosopher Heraclitus, an ancient Greek philosopher, once said that you don’t step into the same river twice, meaning the river flows. Other people look at that quote and said he meant panta rhei, everything flows or changes, although he didn’t necessarily say that himself. Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of today’s video […]
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The name on the indictment is Erekle Gugava. Thirty-three. Citizen of Georgia — the country, not the peach state. The government calls him an illegal alien. A federal grand jury in Massachusetts charged him last week with one count of money-laundering conspiracy tied to $1.3 billion in medical-equipment claims run through a Pennsylvania company he […]
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A new national poll just put a number on what parents have been muttering in the pickup line for years. Thirty-two percent of adults are satisfied with the quality of American K-12 schooling. Sixty-seven percent are not. That is the worst reading in twenty-seven years of asking the question. Satisfaction fell eleven points in two […]