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‘Woke 1 was crazy,’ and ‘Woke 2’ will be even worse

‘Woke 1 was crazy,’ and ‘Woke 2’ will be even worse

Democratic politicians are trying to convince you that “Woke 1 was crazy,” as if that cultural movement is dead and buried. But you can already...

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Zachary Faria

It’s not ‘regulatory capture’ by the AI giants, but it’s still regulatory robbery

It’s not ‘regulatory capture’ by the AI giants, but it’s still regulatory robbery

“Regulatory capture” is a counterintuitive concept to some, but it makes perfect sense to those who have watched Washington work. The idea here is...

yesterday 0

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Timothy P. Carney

The AI apocalypse hypothesis has a fatal flaw: The training data

The AI apocalypse hypothesis has a fatal flaw: The training data

There is tremendous concern that artificial intelligence could eventually become capable of destroying humanity itself. The scenarios vary, but share...

yesterday 0

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Dan Morgan

Pocket dials are killing 911 — and Congress refuses to pick up

Pocket dials are killing 911 — and Congress refuses to pick up

Every single day, millions of Americans assume that dialing 911 guarantees an immediate digital lifeline. It does not. The reality behind our national...

yesterday 0

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Eric Wargotz

Your electric bill isn’t high because of AI. It’s high because of red tape

Your electric bill isn’t high because of AI. It’s high because of red tape

Data centers have become the new top scapegoat in American energy politics. Towns are freezing data center building projects, governors are piling on...

yesterday 0

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Iulia Lupse

Organ donation saves lives. The lies are going to get people killed

Organ donation saves lives. The lies are going to get people killed

Organ donation is one of the most selfless acts one human being can do for another. Our nation is home to thousands of these heroes like Cpl. Jacob...

yesterday 1

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Larry Bucshon

AI doesn’t kill people — LLMs do

AI doesn’t kill people — LLMs do

When I say artificial intelligence doesn’t kill people, LLMs do, the objection I hear most often is that this is a semantic quarrel: that “AI”...

yesterday 0

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Gary Kucher

The US-China AI race doesn’t need a winner — it needs rules

The US-China AI race doesn’t need a winner — it needs rules

We are in the middle of what might be called a global AI freakout: Researchers warn of systems escaping human control, tech executives propose slowing...

yesterday 0

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Dan Perry

78% of voters say ‘enough’: Now Trump must get Asia to play fair

78% of voters say ‘enough’: Now Trump must get Asia to play fair

The next few weeks offer a tremendous opportunity for President Donald Trump and his team to push world leaders for fair market access. As the...

yesterday 0

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Matt Mowers

The Supreme Court banned race sorting. Colleges found a 5-digit loophole

The Supreme Court banned race sorting. Colleges found a 5-digit loophole

Three years after the Supreme Court told American universities to stop sorting applicants by race, the sorting hasn’t stopped. It just got a new...

yesterday 0

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Jay Rogers

Rate hikes can’t stop drone strikes: Why is the Fed punishing Americans for the Hormuz blockade?

Rate hikes can’t stop drone strikes: Why is the Fed punishing Americans for the Hormuz blockade?

Oil just broke $100 a barrel. Diesel has surged past $6 a gallon in parts of the country. Yet this week the Federal Reserve responded to the pain...

yesterday 0

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Diana Furchtgott-Roth

Arm every Aussie: A US Marine’s survival strategy to stop China

Arm every Aussie: A US Marine’s survival strategy to stop China

For the past 25 years, it has been my distinct pleasure to live in Australia since retiring from the United States Marine Corps. It requires only a...

yesterday 0

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Tom Williams

An AI glitch almost just started a war. Next time, we won’t be so lucky

An AI glitch almost just started a war. Next time, we won’t be so lucky

During my lifetime, national security meant managing threats we could see and count. We tracked enemy nuclear stockpiles, built command-and-control...

yesterday 0

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Scott W. Patton

Your screen just went dark. That doesn’t mean the election was stolen

Your screen just went dark. That doesn’t mean the election was stolen

Imagine arriving at a polling place where the electronic voter check-in system has stopped working. Election workers are switching to a backup...

yesterday 1

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Burak Oktenli

Your next cancer scan shouldn’t depend on Moscow’s permission

Your next cancer scan shouldn’t depend on Moscow’s permission

Patients scheduled for a scan or cancer treatment do not need to know how nuclear supply chains work. They need care on time. The problem is many...

yesterday 0

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John Czwartacki

Think ‘abolish ICE’ is a socialist pipe dream? Look at how mainstream Democrats vote

Think ‘abolish ICE’ is a socialist pipe dream? Look at how mainstream Democrats vote

“Abolish ICE!” To left-wing activists, it’s a demand. To too many Washington Democrats, it’s a promise. And to voters across the country,...

yesterday 1

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Jenny Beth Martin

Former Democratic operative details the racism, lies, and dangers of the Democratic Party

Former Democratic operative details the racism, lies, and dangers of the Democratic Party

It was May 2024 when the Democratic Party showed Lindy Li what it truly thought of her. Li, a political operative and tireless fundraiser known for...

yesterday 0

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Christopher Tremoglie

While Trump and Bibi bomb Iran, Putin will subjugate Europe

While Trump and Bibi bomb Iran, Putin will subjugate Europe

Yemen’s Houthis now command Perim Island and both shores of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait. This explosive geography triggers immediate economic...

yesterday 0

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Jose Lev Alvarez

Trump’s super PAC just showed how to win the healthcare war. Are Republicans listening?

Trump’s super PAC just showed how to win the healthcare war. Are Republicans listening?

A recent ad from President Donald Trump’s super PAC, MAGA Inc., debunks multiple flawed media narratives. First, many commentators led us to believe...

yesterday 0

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Jenn Pellegrino

Trump’s drug price plan targets foreign freeloaders — but shoots American innovators

Trump’s drug price plan targets foreign freeloaders — but shoots American innovators

The Trump administration wants American biotech companies to play hardball with foreign health systems — and stop giving special discounts that...

yesterday 0

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Wayne Winegarden

Trump hesitated and lost the Iranian street — but the revolution doesn’t need him

Trump hesitated and lost the Iranian street — but the revolution doesn’t need him

If history were to judge President Donald Trump’s Iran policy mercilessly, perhaps three points could be awarded to him: Killing Qassem Soleimani,...

yesterday 2

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Erfan Fard

The media think Trump is playing chess. Xi Jinping knows he’s fencing

The media think Trump is playing chess. Xi Jinping knows he’s fencing

When President Donald Trump hosts Chinese President Xi Jinping for their high-stakes White House summit, the legacy media will call it chaos or...

yesterday 1

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Eric Wargotz

The park was the gift, the frontage was the point: The sinister loophole behind Trump Tower Tbilisi

The park was the gift, the frontage was the point: The sinister loophole behind Trump Tower Tbilisi

Let me concede the point most coverage of Trump Tower Tbilisi has been built on, because the facts have moved past it. The tower is not rising on a...

yesterday 1

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Emzari Gelashvili

Trump, don’t stop with Greenland. Take Hans Island, too

Trump, don’t stop with Greenland. Take Hans Island, too

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had barely reached the European Parliament podium in Strasbourg on Sept. 17, 2026, when German lawmaker Siegbert...

yesterday 4

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Jose Lev Alvarez

Don’t just freeze Iran’s money. Start threatening to spend it

Don’t just freeze Iran’s money. Start threatening to spend it

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump is expected to meet Gulf leaders in New York to discuss the next phase of the conflict with Iran and the shape of a...

yesterday 0

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Pedro Ordein

Estonian foreign minister: Putin only respects strength

Estonian foreign minister: Putin only respects strength

The Estonian city of Narva sits at the eastern edge of NATO, across a narrow river from Russia. For years, the city has served as the go-to scenario...

yesterday 9

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Ani Chkhikvadze

Putin tests Trump’s hopes for a Russia reset

Putin tests Trump’s hopes for a Russia reset

Russian President Vladimir Putin is escalating his war against the West. Putin is directly targeting the United States itself, not just U.S. allies....

yesterday 10

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Washington Examiner

Vance and the GOP’s Hamiltonian turn

Vance and the GOP’s Hamiltonian turn

Vice President JD Vance has said American right-of-center economic policy is now “much more Alexander Hamilton than it is Milton Friedman,” and he...

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Jay Caruso

The deadliest threat to American healthcare isn’t disease — it’s dinner

The deadliest threat to American healthcare isn’t disease — it’s dinner

People are increasingly concerned about healthcare these days, yet most overlook daily nutrition, a critical component of health and wellness....

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Cara Kingan

State tests are a Trojan horse designed to kill school choice

State tests are a Trojan horse designed to kill school choice

In Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, and beyond, opponents of school choice have sought to force public school tests on private schools participating in...

previous day 1

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Jacob Hopkins

Germany thinks the rich are greedy. Vietnam thinks they’re visionaries. Guess who’s winning?

Germany thinks the rich are greedy. Vietnam thinks they’re visionaries. Guess who’s winning?

Economists know how important psychological factors are in the economy, yet they have paid little attention to the effects of a social climate in...

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Rainer Zitelmann

I built a 40-year empire, then my industry died. Here’s how I’m starting over at 60

I built a 40-year empire, then my industry died. Here’s how I’m starting over at 60

What happens when you are 50, 60, or 70 years old and the career you spent a lifetime building suddenly disappears?  Maybe your company downsizes....

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William Pollack

To be or not to be? Abortion and the question of moral ambiguity

To be or not to be? Abortion and the question of moral ambiguity

The question asked isn’t just about a possible end to a life, but whether or not life is worth continuing. Hamlet, in the soliloquy, wrestles with...

previous day 0

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Andrew Moore

Politicians love talking ‘affordability’ — unless you’re disabled

Politicians love talking ‘affordability’ — unless you’re disabled

September marks Deaf Awareness Month — and the final two-month sprint toward the 2026 midterm elections. Politicians should connect the two. In most...

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James Christopher

I’m a judge. Big tech just turned public truth into a subscription service

I’m a judge. Big tech just turned public truth into a subscription service

Across the country, local county courts face high storage costs and aging systems. To solve this, many local governments are moving their records to...

previous day 2

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Eric Wargotz

Justice overdue: An American hero was murdered on Oct. 7. Israel just hunted down his killer

Justice overdue: An American hero was murdered on Oct. 7. Israel just hunted down his killer

As we approach the third anniversary of Oct. 7, 2023, an Israeli military announcement has brought a measure of justice to an American family whose...

previous day 2

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Ariella Noveck

AI didn’t almost trigger a war with China. The Pentagon’s blind faith in it did

AI didn’t almost trigger a war with China. The Pentagon’s blind faith in it did

American military planes were already in the air. Armed personnel were preparing for a possible boarding of a Chinese vessel. Then, according to CNN...

previous day 2

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Burak Oktenli

Selective scrutiny is bigotry: The manufactured smear of Hindu America

Selective scrutiny is bigotry: The manufactured smear of Hindu America

When Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh chief Dr. Mohan Bhagwat addressed roughly 5,000 people at Madison Square Garden on Aug. 29, his opponents had already...

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Adelle Nazarian

Washington stalled. Crypto didn’t

Washington stalled. Crypto didn’t

Washington’s latest crypto setback should not be mistaken for the end of America’s digital asset experiment. But it should force a more practical...

previous day 2

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Duggan Flanakin

Can the Fed pass Kevin Warsh’s trend test?

Can the Fed pass Kevin Warsh’s trend test?

Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh has said that “trends matter most.” Wednesday’s quarter-point rate increase tests that standard. What trend...

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Dan Varroney

Call them ‘Nazis’ all you want: The new German Right is winning the argument

Call them ‘Nazis’ all you want: The new German Right is winning the argument

In the current electoral cycle, Germans of a particular political persuasion can vote for the slightly left-of-center Social Democrats (SPD), the even...

previous day 0

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Bob Armstrong

How 9 senators get to hold 80% of America hostage

How 9 senators get to hold 80% of America hostage

In his recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, “America Needs the Filibuster,” former Sen. Ben Sasse argues the filibuster “provides a bulwark against...

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David de la Paz

Insurers want you to hate drugmakers so you won’t notice who’s actually robbing you

Insurers want you to hate drugmakers so you won’t notice who’s actually robbing you

American voters — and their elected leaders — are fed up with the cost of prescription drugs. And they’re looking for someone to blame. That...

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Anne Pritchett

‘UFOs and God’ movie: Why the year’s most unsettling film isn’t just about aliens

‘UFOs and God’ movie: Why the year’s most unsettling film isn’t just about aliens

UFOs are in the news a lot lately. Congress seeks answers about what confirmable evidence exists. Stephen Spielberg’s recent Disclosure Day movie...

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Rusty Wright

What if AI is the only way humanity can survive?

What if AI is the only way humanity can survive?

The latest political controversy du jour is that if we do not slow down or even stop the development of artificial intelligence systems, they will...

previous day 1

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Mark Whittington

Why internet culture is turning Lindsay Clancy into a victim

Why internet culture is turning Lindsay Clancy into a victim

Since the beginning of humanity, one of the few things that has remained consistent is the belief that murder is wrong. Yet the Lindsay Clancy...

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Matt Cookson

Why is Big Tech begging Trump for regulations? Just look at who benefits

Why is Big Tech begging Trump for regulations? Just look at who benefits

When Big Tech suddenly pleads for federal regulation, we must dig deeper and find the motivation behind it. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s call to...

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Alfredo Rodriguez Iii

Chris Murphy’s toxic race-baiting has no place in college sports

Chris Murphy’s toxic race-baiting has no place in college sports

Politics can bring out the worst in us, and when it comes to college sports, it has brought the worst out in Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT). “Look at the...

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Conn Carroll

The value of your college degree is collapsing before your eyes

The value of your college degree is collapsing before your eyes

Now that a significant portion of America’s high school graduates are enrolled in college for the first time, it may be worth reviewing whether...

previous day 1

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Richard Vedder