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[ad_1] Restoring the academy requires more than budget cuts-it needs grant funding for the research that the Left has ignored. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] This week I recorded an episode of the National Constitution Center’s “We the People” podcast on “What the 2025-2026 Supreme Court Term Revealed About the Roberts Court.” I was joined by Masha Hansford of Davis Polk & Wardwell, and the conversation was moderated by the NCC’s Julie Silverbrook. I enjoyed the discussion. I hope VC readers find it worthwhile. The post "What the 2025-2026 Supreme Court Term Revealed About the Roberts Court" appeared first on Reason.com. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] From Leviss v. Madix, decided yesterday by California Court of Appeal Justice Victor Viramontes, joined by Justice Matthew Scherb: This action arises out of the discovery of a private sexual affair, which garnered widespread media attention when news of the affair became public. Plaintiff and respondent Rachel Leviss had an affair with Tom Sandoval, the then-boyfriend of defendant and appellant Ariana Madix. At the time, Leviss, Madix, and Sandoval were all cast members on the reality television show, Vanderpump Rules. Madix learned of the affair when she found sexually explicit videos of Leviss on Sandoval’s cell phone, which Madix…

[ad_1] Record Labor Force Dropouts The number of Americans age 16 and over not in the labor force reached an estimated 111 million in July, according to a report from ActivistPost.com citing government data, surpassing levels seen during the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic [1]. A separate analysis from March 2024 placed the figure at nearly 107 million, indicating a continued upward trajectory [2]. The term “not in the labor force” (NILF) includes retirees, students, and those not seeking work. The total has surged by more than 1 million since the pandemic-era low, with the labor force participation rate…

[ad_1] Milla74/Dreamstime In Trump v. Barbara, issued in June, the Supreme Court ruled against Donald Trump’s executive order denying birthright citizenship to children of undocumented immigrants born in the United States, and those born to non-citizen parents here on temporary visas. Today, Trump issued another executive order seeking to narrow birthright citzenship, one that is also unconstitutional, even though the groups affected are much smaller than those targeted by the earlier order. Today’s order denies birthright citizenship to four categories of children:  Children of “alien enemies,” defined as those where at least one parent is a  “designated Foreign Terrorist Organization…

[ad_1] The bipartisan push to restrict internet freedom is gaining momentum.  On Wednesday, the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee voted on five bills related to online safety and AI, including the Shielding Children’s Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net (SCREEN) Act and Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), which free speech advocates have warned would threaten online privacy and freedom.  The SCREEN Act, introduced by Sen. Mike Lee (R–Utah), would require pornography websites to block minors using age verification. The bill states that “shielding minors from access to online pornographic content is a compelling government interest” and its proposed…

[ad_1] You have probably heard of Scott Galloway, a clinical professor of marketing at New York University. At some point over the course of the last several years, this academic and author became the mainstream media’s favorite all-purpose podcaster. As is the case with his similarly minded colleague, the smartphone fatalist Jonathan Haidt, a certain amount of trendy moral panicking comes with the territory; thus Galloway has built an impressive career offering bland (though often inoffensive) wisdom and also terrible policy advice, particularly with respect to tech addiction and the plight of young men. You are reading Free Media from…

[ad_1] This week, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) voted to abolish a rule that limited how many broadcast TV stations a single person or company can own. Some fear the new move will let President Donald Trump’s supporters monopolize broadcast TV. It’s also not clear if the agency even has the authority to make the change. But if the rule change happens, it’s not as big of a problem as it may seem. “Today, the Federal Communications Commission voted to repeal its 39% national television multiple ownership rule and replace it with a granular, case-by-case review,” the agency announced Thursday…

[ad_1] Nineteen years in. Employee of the quarter twice. “Our most valuable asset,” they said it at the all-hands on Wednesday and everybody clapped. Thursday he’s walking to his truck at 9:15 in the morning with a cardboard box, and his badge stopped working while he was still in the room. Nobody in that building lost a minute of sleep over it. By Friday his whole career was a line item on slide 14 of a deck about AI-enabled efficiency, and the guy who made that slide got a bonus. That’s the disaster. Not the volcano, not the EMP, not…

[ad_1] “A burrito shouldn’t cost $20.” That’s what one Turning Point USA college student recently told the organization’s spokesman, Andrew Kolvet, who posted the comment on X in response to conservative pundit Matt Walsh’s complaints about rising grocery prices. Kolvet’s post garnered a massive response this week, sparking a debate among conservatives about the price of burritos and what the “America First” response should be. One of our TPUSA college students gave me his take on affordability: “A burrito shouldn’t cost $20.” Yeah, a lot of this is a hangover from Covid and Biden-era inflation, but the lived experience is…