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Even the Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post could not stomach the new proposal from Kamala Harris to place price controls on food. The headline of the opinion piece from Catherine Rampell read: "When your opponent calls you a 'communist,' maybe don't ...

In 2021, whistleblower Frances Haugen revealed evidence that Facebook (now Meta) knew of its harmful impact on children. She set in motion a public reckoning with the role of social media, not only on children but on society as a whole. Fast-forward ...

For all of Western civilization's "progress," a lot of our intelligence is (indeed) artificial. Turning that phrase around, we must recognize that myriad contemporary assumptions are swindles, despite our smug arrogance. After generations of societal ...

Is Kamala Harris running for president or prom queen? Superficiality is nothing new in American politics, and Donald Trump certainly knows how to use playground tactics -- like tagging opponents with childish, yet effectively humiliating, nicknames.

Americans are like members of a quarrelsome family, so intent on arguing their petty grievances around the kitchen table that they don't smell the rising smoke from the oven. As our nation fumes and the world burns, neither major party presidential ...

As Donald Trump calls for abortion policy to be left to the individual states, his running mate, Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance, said Saturday that "on the question of defunding Planned Parenthood" the views of the former president remain "consistent." Through ...

Acting Secret Service Director Ronald Rowe was directly involved in denying additional security resources and personnel, including counter snipers, to former President Trump's rallies and events - despite repeated requests by the agents assigned to ...

At the end of tomorrow's vice presidential debate, the media will moderate another debate: "Which candidate won?" But that's the wrong question. We need to ask, "Did the debate divide us even more?" Our country is in a crisis of division, but we can ...

In 2019, Vice President Kamala Harris told CNN's Jake Tapper that social media companies "are directly speaking to millions and millions of people without any level of oversight or regulation and it has to stop." Does it? Every two-bit authoritarian ...

Michael Walzer has argued in a New York Times opinion piece that Israel's "pager attack" on thousands of Hezbollah operatives throughout Lebanon was "an act of terrorism," since it failed to respect "the distinction between combatants and civilians"