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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent cautioned last month that Americans will likely experience "a detox period" after President Donald Trump implements his wide-ranging tariffs. What are we detoxing from, exactly? From an abundance of affordable goods ...

There's a great story on the front page of the Wall Street Journal today, called "Two Kevins Battle to Be Next Fed Chair in Trump's Apprentice-Style Contest." The two Kevins are a former Federal Reserve governor, Kevin Warsh, and the director of the ...

Well, that was a bizarro dance in the Oval Office Monday. President Trump and his Salvadoran counterpart Nayib Bukele - along with key players in Trump's cabinet - reacted contemptibly to questions about their treatment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The ...

Fifty-nine years ago today, mass murder in the form of a rampage shooting on a school campus blasted its way into the American consciousness - never to leave. This searing event also took place in the Lone Star State, from atop the fabled tower at ...

Two important developments in education occurred over the last week. One was a sign of the problem we have. The other was a sign of the solution. The sign of the problem, to which hopefully the U.S. Supreme Court will provide the correct answer,

Trans woman activist Dylan Mulvaney did a happy-go-lucky softball interview tour to promote the book "Paper Doll: Notes from a Late Bloomer." The "mainstream" media are out of the mainstream on trans issues, and their extreme fawning and flattery ...

Pundits are confused about what to make of the first 100 days of the second Trump administration. Supporters talk of "flooding the zone," believing President Donald Trump is making so many changes so quickly that his opposition is reduced to deer-in ...

San Francisco has long been the country's progressive proving ground. It's where ambitious ideas are tested, movements begin, and political trends take shape before the rest of the nation catches on. But something is changing. In the most famously ...

In March of 2024, two men, disillusioned by traditional methods of combating homelessness, developed and released Nomadik: a ground-breaking app that uses AI to detect and track homeless encampments across the city of Austin, Texas. Nomadik's ...

Russia's war to conquer Ukraine has been raging since February 2022. At first, the Russian offensive seemed fated for success: Russian troops came within a few kilometers of Kyiv, and Western powers offered President Volodymyr Zelenskyy exit from the ...