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The crisis we face today is existential. Too many Americans, both native-born and naturalized, have been taught to despise their country. Source link
In two ideologically split rulings that could affect millions, justices say the administration can deport some migrants and turn others away at the border. Source link
Alex Poppe Informed Comment JD Vance recently sat down with “Interesting Times” podcast host Ross Douthat. When Ross Douthat pointed out that the Trump administration had been “more hostile than any prior Republican administration…to the way we do humanitarian aid,” the vice president argued that conservative or centrist parties “keep winning landslide elections in Latin America” because [before President Trump retook office] aid dollars “went to fund a left-wing NGO complex that actually tilted Latin American elections in favor of the far-left parties. Now, maybe that was the policy preference of the Biden administration, but those things, those biases…
Photograph by Michael Leonardi We are long past the moment when we could pretend the warning signs were not there. Just as climate scientists have spent decades warning of tipping points — the irreversible collapse of ice sheets, the die-off of coral reefs, the sudden release of methane from thawing permafrost — a different kind of catastrophe has been building in plain sight. This one is political, constitutional, and strategic. And like climate change, it has been enabled by denial, short-term thinking, and the capture of power by entrenched interests. The latest National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) moving through Congress…
The president can’t fathom the point of Congress passing a law that doesn’t provide instant results and gratification. Source link
With the midterm elections rapidly approaching and polls showing Republicans in serious trouble with voters, they have become frantic to pass the SAVE America Act. Twenty-five House members are now promising to vote no on everything until the act is passed. Their panic is based on the entirely unfounded belief that passing the act would make some meaningful difference in the midterm results. There are two principal provisions of the SAVE Act. First, it imposes a photo ID requirement to vote in any federal election. Second, it requires proof of citizenship for anyone to register to vote in a federal…
Jewish flotilla activist Anny Mokotow, who was roughed up by her Israeli captors, and two journalists who’ve reported the story, Andrew Brown and Michael West, talk to CN‘s Cathy Vogan. Australia is taking action after its citizens were captured by…Read more → Source link
Decentralization Just Became More Urgent Than Ever Three years ago, I launched Decentralized TV with a simple conviction: centralized power is the root of all tyranny, and the only path to freedom is through decentralization. Back then, the idea seemed ahead of its time to many. Now, it feels suddenly urgent. The Middle East war has exposed how fragile global supply chains are, and the energy grid is cracking under the weight of data centers and geopolitical chaos. The lessons we shared in our numerous interviews and episodes have become even more urgent since the day we filmed them. Our…
Clarence Thomas's Constitutional Firepower Source link
Politically active people my age fondly remember conservative intellectual William F. Buckley hosting the wildly popular TV show, “Firing Line,” where he for years interviewed luminaries from across the political spectrum. He sparred with leftist Noam Chomsky about American imperialism, chatted with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher about the future of free markets, and talked to poet Allen Ginsberg about drugs and spirituality. Heady stuff. These lofty civil debates went beyond politics and delved into psychology, art and literature. The show reflected an emerging conservative movement that was clever and optimistic, and which preferred to out-argue opponents rather than “own” them. That era’s…