Republican U.S. Senate candidate and Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has released his plan to protect Texas’ power grid and communities from issues associated with data centers while ensuring the United States beats China in the artificial intelligence race. On Monday, Paxton released his “Texas First Data Center Plan,” which outlines four key proposals to […]
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In The Republic, Plato warned that excessive political freedom can eventually produce disorder and tyranny. More precisely, he argued that an insatiable demand for freedom ultimately produces chaos, and that angry citizens are tempted to embrace a strongman who promises to restore order. In other words, democracy is a paradox. The problem is not freedom itself. […]
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It’s August, so we have the annual debate over the dropping of two atomic bombs, one on Aug. 6, 1945, the uranium bomb called “Little Boy” that was dropped on the dual-use target, military and industrial Japanese city of Hiroshima, and then three days later on Nagasaki with a plutonium bomb, although it was not quite as […]
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The United Arab Emirates has halted all trade, commercial exchanges, and financial transactions with Iran until further notice. The announcement came after Abu Dhabi said two ballistic missiles launched from Iran targeted maritime traffic, with one falling inside Emirati waters. Tehran denied it. Dubai still issued shelter alerts. Hours later the commercial tap was shut. […]
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The administration is moving to revoke as many as 200,000 business and tourist visas. These are B-1 and B-2 documents issued over the last decade to people who entered the United States claiming they were short-term visitors and then filed for asylum to stay permanently. Officials describe it as the largest single mass revocation effort […]
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The Supreme Court’s Monday decision cleared the way for the Department of Homeland Security to establish a state-by-state list of eligible voters based on a crosscheck of citizenship data, the Social Security database, and other government information. “The DHS can determine who is eligible to vote because the federal government does not want to be […]
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Elon Musk has built his career by refusing to compete on yesterday’s terms. Tesla did not set out merely to manufacture a slightly better gasoline-powered automobile. SpaceX did not attempt to become another conventional aerospace contractor. Both companies challenged the basic assumptions of established industries—and forced the world to imagine what could come next. That is […]
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All Americans support legal immigration, especially legal immigration that is diverse, as I said, measured in numbers that can be assimilated and acculturated and integrated, meritocratic, so we get people who come here with skills that ensure that we, the people of the United States, will not have to support them, and they have some knowledge […]
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Republicans who let the other side pick the topic of the week are doing the country’s work for its opponents. The second Trump term has been a year and a half of enforcement, tax relief, energy, crime, and hard power. Those results do not vanish because a camera prefers a different fight. Here are twenty-five […]
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has been in American custody since March 2003. He has had lawyers for most of that time. He was charged in 2008. He was arraigned in 2012. A trial date was set for 2021 and then canceled. A plea that would have locked him up for life was signed in 2024 and […]