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There’s a global war on information today, and it’s segmented by country, generation, and medium. We used to live in a world where there was a small funnel which all information was strained through. In that funnel was TV, where TV networks essentially had a couple of major news media channels that most of the population tuned into. Nowadays that funnel has been wiped and filled with countless digital platforms, podcasts, and broadcasting. They’re oftentimes populated by international actors, bots, and millions of individuals who want to share their opinions with the world. Social media has democratized influence and blown…

Demographic disparities in medical and scientific knowledge show up long before admissions time. DEI manipulation at the end of the process doesn’t solve the problem. Source link

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) lost his congressional primary Tuesday to the Trump-endorsed Ed Gallrein.  Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox Gallrein’s win is the latest victory for candidates endorsed by President Donald Trump against incumbents. In the past month, five Indiana Republican state legislators who voted against redistricting and Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA), who voted to impeach the president after January 6, lost their races after Trump’s intervention.  With a total of over $33 million spent in advertising, the race in Kentucky’s Fourth District was the most expensive congressional primary in American history. Much of Gallrein’s…

New accountability rules could expose the childcare wage crisis and push states to fund early childhood work like the public good it is. Source link

In his speech, he offered something increasingly rare: a coherent defense of the American constitutional order rooted in first principles. Source link

A review of Take Me to Your Leader: Perspectives on Alien Life, Belief, and Scientific Reasoning by Neil deGrasse Tyson, New York: Simon & Schuster (Simon Six Imprint), 2026. Introduction Neil deGrasse Tyson, Director of the Hayden Planetarium and one of the most prominent public science communicators of the twenty-first century, has built a career on the proposition that scientific reasoning should guide our understanding of the cosmos. In Take Me to Your Leader, Tyson turns his considerable intellectual resources toward one of the enduring puzzles of modern culture: why, in an era of unprecedented scientific knowledge and omnipresent smartphone cameras, does belief…

The Senate on Tuesday voted to advance a War Powers resolution to halt the Iran war unless Congress authorizes further hostilities. The motion to discharge the bill from committee passed 50-47, following seven failed attempts to do so. GOP Senators Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Susan Collins of Maine, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joined Democrats to vote in favor of the motion while Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) voted with Republicans against it, as he did in the last war powers roll call on May 13. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox It…

Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.), the libertarian-adjacent lawmaker who clashed with President Donald Trump over spending, tariffs, wars, and the Epstein files, was defeated in Tuesday’s primary election by Ed Gallrein, a Trump-backed challenger. The Associated Press called the race shortly before 8 p.m., with Gallrein leading Massie by about 10 points with nearly three-quarters of the vote reported. The contest was widely regarded as the most expensive primary election in congressional history. More than $32 million was spent on the race, much of it by pro-Trump and pro-Israel groups that sought to give Massie the boot. Clearly, the stakes here…

New York, New York, the “city that never Sleeps,” has given us two Presidents, Eggs Benedict, potato chips, Robert De Niro, Saturday Night Live, and Scrabble. Two of New York City’s boroughs have also been home to three of the most controversial and infamous criminal defendants in American history: Bruno Richard Hauptmann, and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. Though their convictions were handed down decades ago, Hauptmann from the Bronx, and the Rosenbergs from Knickerbocker Village in Manhattan, remain causes célèbres around the globe. With passionate proponents around the world still proclaiming their innocence, a skeptical examination of the evidence for the guilt…

The fund lets institutions earn yield on stablecoins while moving cash onchain with round-the-clock access. What to know: State Street Investment Management and Galaxy Asset Management have launched the State Street Galaxy Onchain Liquidity Sweep Fund (SWEEP), a tokenized cash-management vehicle for large investors. SWEEP lets qualified institutional investors park stablecoins in a yield-generating fund that operates continuously on blockchain infrastructure, starting on Solana and expanding to Ethereum and Stellar. The fund underscores Wall Street’s growing embrace of tokenized versions of traditional instruments, while keeping access limited to institutions as firms test blockchain-based market plumbing. State Street Investment Management and…