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When the Amazon driver leaves an order at the doorstep, many may not be at home to give a quick, appreciative thank-you as the carrier races off to the next stop. Probably no thought was given to the ships and sailors who shipped goods to Amazon and America’s big-box stores in the first place. But gas station visits today have probably made customers grateful and well aware that an oil tanker and its crew may have been stranded in the Persian Gulf off the Strait of Hormuz and yet found ways to elude Iran’s shore batteries and mines to reach…

County party chairs inundated with calls. An endless stream of Google sign-up forms and spreadsheets. And a disgraced former nominee looming over it all, haunting the party’s hopes Source link

The West Is a Superior Civilization (Too Bad if That Offends You) Source link

Ida Susser Over a decade ago two innovative movements mobilized in France to take on the neoliberal assaults on the commons and the public good. The Nuit Debout was an Occupy movement that began in Paris in 2016. It was followed by the Yellow Vests, an extraordinary formation that rushed into Paris from the provinces starting in 2018. Triggered by a rise in fuel taxes, the Yellow Vests rapidly articulated broader grievances over inequality, territorial neglect, and the erosion of public services. They demanded affordable transport, pensions, hospitals, and schools.  Both movements launched “commoning” programs that addressed the needs…

If Johns Hopkins University wanted to signal its seriousness about creating an alternative to the left-leaning orthodoxy that permeates higher education, it couldn’t have done better than the re Source link

During the 2026 session, Utah’s legislature amended Utah’s rules of evidence, adding a new provision (subsection 404(d)). The new provision allows prosecutors to present to juries sexual assault propensity evidence in sexual assault cases. The Federal Rules of Evidence have contained a similar rule (Rule 413) for more than two decades. Numerous states follow comparable approaches—either through rule or caselaw—tracking the common law approach of admitting evidence to prove a “lustful disposition.” Utah’s rules will now benefit from a provision codifying this approach in Rule 404(d). Because of the significance of this new rule change, I’ve written an article with…

“From aid to partnership”, the US and Israel are set to become even more united in genocide Nuvpreet Kalra In June 2026, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu wrote to Republican Representative Marlin Stutzman of California, saying that “the time has now arrived [for Israel] to move from aid recipient to partner” with the United States. Yesterday, on Fox News, Netanyahu again repeated the proposal to move “from aid to partnership“. What Netanyahu proclaims is at the core of the proposed “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative”, which has been included in a section of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)…

The first time I met Vladimir, my Russian college roommate freshman year, we got to talking about politics and it turned out he was all for the free market, and in fact went on to join the college investment club. At that time Bill Weld was governor of Massachusetts and there was a referendum—Question 3—on the ballot that fall that would have rolled back $2 billion in tax increases. I told Vlad about it. His question to me, posed in all sincerity: “Why wouldn’t the vote in favor be 100 percent?” You would think it would be, wouldn’t you? Murray…

Photograph Source: Mostafameraji – CC BY-SA 4.0 Oil is trading near its lowest levels since the war began in late February, with Brent hovering close to pre-war prices even as Gulf producers pump barrels back into a recovering market. The immediate trigger was a Qatari statement that indirect U.S.–Iran talks in Doha had made “positive progress.” Yet in the same stretch, Iran ordered commercial ships onto the routes it designates through the Strait of Hormuz and promised force against any that strayed. Two facts, one market: traders bought the peace while Tehran advertised its grip on the world’s most important…

The Left has thrown a completely counterfactual fit about how the Paramount takeover of CBS created some kind of “MAGA-coded” news division under Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss. No one who watches network news daily right now can see much of a difference today between CBS and ABC and NBC. But mere internal questioning of whether CBS could attempt to be less biased to the Left has caused a tsunami of panic. Now, as the Paramount merger with Warner Brothers-Discovery approaches its conclusion, 12 attorneys general filed a last-minute lawsuit to block it — but they won’t say it’s about keeping Weiss…