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The last act of death is not mortality but the erasure of memory. Chris Hedges ScheerPost The tombstone for my grandparents, Ethel and Philip Prince, and my uncle, Maurice Prince. MECHANIC FALLS, Maine — I am standing in Maple Grove Cemetery in Mechanic Falls, Maine. In front of me, within a radius of a few feet, are three rectangular granite headstones that read “HEDGES,” “BLAIR” and “PRINCE.” Before me lie the remains of my parents, grandparents, two uncles and my aunt. The grass is parched and yellowed. There are small American flags placed in round metal holders, slightly askew,…

Everyone from RFK Jr. to social media influencers are telling us that the nutrient needs to be maximized in our diet as much as possible. But is that actually good for our bodies? Source link

Less than two months after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled his executive order on birthright citizenship to be unconstitutional, President Donald Trump has issued not one but two new executive orders on birthright citizenship that largely retread the same illegal grounds that the Supreme Court already rejected in Trump v. Barbara. Is this just a futile outburst from a consummate sore loser? Or does Trump actually stand a chance of faring any better in court this time around? You’re reading Injustice System from Damon Root and Reason. Get more of Damon’s commentary on constitutional law and American history. Trump’s original…

Margaret Flowers, Clearing the FOG. As the climate crisis intensifies, bringing extreme weather events, fires, droughts and flooding to our communities, and governments refuse to take effective action, a growing movement is amending state Constitutions to codify the right to clean air and water and a healthy environment. Clearing the FOG speaks with the founder of the Green Amendments For The Generations campaign, Maya van Rossum. An environmental lawyer, van Rossum explains how communities can win these amendments and use them to change the legal system that currently legalizes the expansion of fossil fuel infrastructure. She also talks about…

José Antonio Kast had not been president of Chile for two weeks before a war on the other side of the world began to tank his administration. Kast took office on March 11 with a commanding electoral mandate and a net approval rating of about 20 points. By the end of the month, however, his approval had already slipped underwater. The immediate cause had little to do with anything Kast had done. Chileans were furious about the surge in fuel prices caused by the Iran War, and they blamed the man who had just moved into La Moneda. It was…

Coase, Property Rights, and the AI Debate Everyone Is Having Backwards Jeffrey Wernick The AI debate has settled into two camps. One says the technology is too dangerous to distribute, so it must be concentrated in a few licensed hands. The other says it is too dangerous to concentrate, so it must be distributed widely. Serious people occupy both camps, and both are answering the wrong question. The question is not who should hold the power. The question is what rights everyone else holds against whoever ends up holding it. Neither camp asks, because both camps are populated by people…

This article is based on declassified U.S. government documents, testimonies from former federal employees with top-level security clearances, and investigative journalism spanning over two years. The information presented here draws from Congressional reports, files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and sworn statements by officials such as Catherine Austin Fitts, former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the Bush administration. The figures regarding secret expenditures of $21 trillion originate from her analysis of federal financial records. The event that first exposed the existence of the Mount Weather bunker—the crash of TWA Flight 514 on December 1, 1974—is…

New Orleans police officer Brandon Coleman faces 350 criminal charges for allegedly claiming more than $111,000 in overtime pay that he did not actually earn. Investigators say Coleman repeatedly reported working long shifts, while surveillance footage showed him at home during some of that time. The investigation grew out of earlier concerns about unusually high overtime payments to New Orleans police officers. In response, the New Orleans Police Department has introduced stricter overtime controls, like requiring officers to clock in at their actual work locations and improving supervisory checks. Those changes have reportedly reduced police overtime spending by 45 percent,…

Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL) posted the following on Twitter/X Thursday night: It’s no longer Republicans vs. Democrats. It’s Americans who love this country vs. terrorists who want to destroy it. — Congressman Randy Fine (@RepFine) August 13, 2026 Fine appeared to be putting himself on Team America against both, or either, the leftwing, including a new crop of democratic socialists who keep winning Democratic primaries, or also perhaps Palestinians (maybe Hamas specifically, maybe not), who the congressman does not like and has even compared to dogs (for starters). Fine is a vocal Zionist who has repeatedly called for the total…

Representation permeates much of life in the modern liberal state. Politicians make laws for millions of people, laws that every individual is expected to obey under the threat of force. Bureaucracies ensure compliance with these laws through varying forms of coercion, while judges settle disputes over alleged violations. The individual, however, remains largely on the receiving end of this process. One may vote, yet the political outcome will be the same anyway. As political philosopher Jason Brennan writes in Against Democracy, “Regardless of whether you choose to vote or not, and regardless of how you decide, the same result will…