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In a trial set to begin June 24, California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta is asking a court to do something that should alarm every American, regardless of where they stand on abortion: punish nonprofit organizations with ruinous fines for speaking about a lawful medical treatment. The target is not fraud. These charities offer their services for free. It is not patient harm. There is no evidence of any patient being harmed. It is not even illegal conduct. The underlying treatment remains perfectly legal. The target is speech. Heartbeat International and Real Options are pro-life nonprofits that provide information and care…

Millions of American workers are stranded in jobs without career mobility. Here’s what we need to ease the problem of stalled careers. Source link

The Iranian schoolhouse in Minab stands as a warning that goes beyond a single strike, or company, or war. It warns of a future in which technological power advances faster than public accountability. Vijay Prashad for Z Network In the southern Iranian city of Minab, where the heat rises from the earth in shimmering waves and the reality of imperialism lingers in every port and military installation, a missile struck a school on Feb. 28. The strike killed 156 people, notably 120 schoolchildren, which the Iranian government immediately called a “blatant crime.” The United Nations called the attack “a grave violation of humanitarian law.” The…

Image generated with Grok by xAI. In 399 B.C., Socrates chose to drink hemlock and suffer a painful death rather than submit to the state and live a life devoid of critical examination. He would be horrified to see how close we have come to constructing his nightmare: a society willing to jettison free speech and embrace state-defined “safety” over the messy, painful, and necessary work of questioning why we believe what we believe.  The nation’s founders viewed freedom of speech and the press as essential to a free society. Not as privileges granted by the government, but as fundamental, pre-existing natural rights derived from self-ownership. This philosophical framework is…

JD Vance points at Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif during a press briefing on the Iran ceasefire negotiations. (Screengrab from video posted to X.) By some miracle, Donald “Blockade Everybody” Trump may have achieved a peace deal with Iran. That is, if and only if he decides to snap a leash on the U.S. attack dog in the region, namely Israel, whose nearly universally loathed prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, flatly rejected el jefe’s deal the minute it was announced. As observers far more astute than yours truly would note, this is all for show. Israel will do exactly what the…

As I sat down to write this column, I knew there was only one possible topic – an international dispute that had the United States throwing its weight around and the other side refusing to back down. No, not the Iran negotiations. I’m talking about the much more consequential battle between President Donald Trump and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. History may record that the first one involved nuclear weapons, terrorism, and the future of the Middle East. But the other involved an Italian mother being told she begged for a photograph. Trust me, that’s the more dangerous conflict. I…

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The Return Citizen Support Group in New Jersey has constructed a community that utilizes parallel structures of mutual aid to support formerly incarcerated civilians in their journeys beyond prison. America’s prison system does not end at the prison gate. For millions of formerly incarcerated people, release marks the beginning of another sentence—one enforced not by prison guards, but by laws, discrimination, economic exclusion, and a political system that too often values punishment over rehabilitation. While politicians routinely invoke the language of “second chances,” returning citizens face barriers to housing, employment, education, voting, and even basic dignity that make successful…

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The number of families struggling with food insecurity nearly tripled in last two years, survey finds.  Marcus Baram for Capital and Main Military families are experiencing a sharp rise in food insecurity, driven largely by the rising cost of groceries, according to a survey conducted before the start of the Iran war in February and its inflationary impact.  The biennial report by the Military Family Advisory Network, a national nonprofit that supports military and veteran families, surveyed more than 10,000 families between October 2025 and January 2026. The report examines how economic security, health care access, spouse employment, community connection, family functioning…