The Supreme Court is not a help desk. It is a court of limited jurisdiction that decides the dispute in front of it, preferably on the smallest hook that will dispose of the case. That design is older than the country. It is also how a nation spends years not knowing whether a president can […]
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If you watch a lot of cosmos videos on YouTube like I do, you undoubtedly know that the universe has a public-relations problem. It advertises itself as unimaginably large and unfathomably old, but when it comes to intelligent life, it appears to have produced only one confirmed customer: the earthly human being. This is the […]
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Victor Davis Hanson: That Turkish player who’s changed his name to Freedom, his last name, and he was there and he was cheering on Sophie Cunningham. And that [Natasha] Cloud player, she went all the way over there and tried to instigate. Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the latest edition of “Victor Davis […]
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On Wednesday the State Department and Treasury labeled Autistici/Inventati—the A/I Collective—a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. It is an Italy-based tech shop that does not sell widgets. It sells anonymity to people who use it for riots, sabotage, and propaganda. Same week, Washington hit two other far-left networks in the same package. The message was not […]
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Zohran Mamdani sold New York a simple product: child care from six weeks to five years, no fee, no income test, no citizenship test. Campaign price tag: about $6 billion a year, billed to the rich. The city is now discovering that “free” is a waiting list with a hole in the budget. New York […]
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Germany still looks German on a tourist map. The census does not. Official figures for 2025 put the country at about 83.5 million people. Roughly 71 million hold German citizenship. About 12.4 million do not, by the population count; the foreigners register lists more than 14 million. More than a quarter of people in private […]
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Some Democrats have finally noticed they sound like they swallowed a graduate seminar. “Unhoused.” “Birthing person.” “Justice-involved.” “Food insecure.” “Substance-use disorder.” “Assigned female at birth.” The list is long and it all does the same job: replace a word everybody understands with a phrase that signals you went to the right schools. Normal people hear […]
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Sami Winc: We know that in California, Xavier, I think his name is Becerra, is going to win, but he is the most unimpressive of governors I’ve ever seen. Even Kamala Harris said he was not up to snuff, and she is, of course, one of the most unimpressive of mediocrities. Editor’s note: This is a […]
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spent recent weeks sounding like someone who had discovered swing voters. Then she renewed her membership in the country’s largest socialist organization after a seven-year lapse. The group announced it itself. It said the announcement was unusual. It also said talk of a 2028 presidential run made her status essential information. That is […]
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Bill Gates spent six thousand words this week telling the country to slow down artificial intelligence. He would “likely support” a credible global plan to tap the brakes. He wants taxes on AI and robots. He wants some jobs reserved for humans by law. He wants new international machinery to govern the most important technology […]