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Poll Shows Trump Approval Surge After Iran Peace Deal Source link

Why liberal societies must protect people, not ideas, from criticism Every tradition begins somewhere. Every religion, moral code, legal system, and political identity emerges from a particular language, place, history, memory, fear, victory, defeat, and symbolic world. There is nothing wrong with that. Human beings do not begin from nowhere. We begin from families, cultures, stories, rituals, and inherited explanations. A local rule may once have helped a community solve a problem. A taboo may once have organized social life. A religious command may once have made sense inside a particular historical world. But when such rules are declared final,…

The creator of the Water H3RO, Joseph Johnson, stops by with friend of the show Tim James from Chemical Free Body to explain how the product structures the water. The device changes the molecular bonds of H2O and structures it into a more effective version known as H3O2. Health benefits include the removal of the negative effects of glyphosate, which is responsible for numerous health problems around the world, and is currently in the middle of a massive class-action settlement. Agricultural opportunities include the regeneration of the soil, improvement of crop yields, higher-quality food, and more fertile seeds. Hypocrazy Audiobook: https://amzn.to/4aogwms…

When applying Fourth Amendment doctrine, to what extent can race and ethnicity be considered? The Supreme Court denied cert on Monday in United States v. Carter, a case on this question—specifically, on whether the Fourth Amendment test for whether a person is “seized” factors in the person’s race.  There’s an interesting connection between this issue and last fall’s debate over the role of race in immigration stops, raised in Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo. I thought it might be worth flagging the potential connection, and to ask about ways to distinguish how the law approaches them. Here’s the context.  Carter asked…

Today’s guest is Jack Clark. He’s the co-founder of Anthropic—the artificial intelligence company behind Claude—and the head of its newly launched Anthropic Institute, a forum designed to think through the philosophical, political, and practical challenges that AI poses to society. Nick Gillespie talks with Clark, a former tech journalist at Bloomberg and The Register, about his company’s ongoing regulatory battles with the Trump administration; whether Anthropic should have held back Mythos, its superpowerful version, from general release; and what might happen if and when AI becomes fully capable of “recursive self-improvement,” or the ability to build itself without human input.…

Three candidates backed by the New York City mayor won after campaigning for Medicare for All, affordable housing, stronger union protections and opposing Israel’s genocidal assault on Palestinians, Jake Johnson reports.  Mayor Zohran Mamdani in January 2026. (Marc A. Hermann / MTA/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY 4.0) By Jake JohnsonCommon Dreams Three progressive candidates emerged victorious from U.S. congressional primaries in New York on Tuesday, overcoming millions of dollars in spending by corporate interests and AIPAC with grassroots campaigns that centered the working class. Brad Lander, the former New York City comptroller, defeated Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman in New York’s 10th…

Despite President Trump’s low job approval ratings and well-documented (and in my view well-deserved) problems, the Democratic Party hasn’t closed the deal with voters. Democrats have a negative brand, according to all the polls. But we don’t need a Democratic National Committee autopsy to figure out why – or what to do about it. Source link

If you’ve heard of Alpha School, you’ve heard the pitch: two hours of AI tutoring in the morning, life skills in the afternoon, no teachers, top-2 percent standardized test scores. It’s the Austin, Texas, tech-money education project that’s been profiled credulously and picked apart skeptically in roughly equal measure over the past year. The Trump administration’s education secretary called the model “exemplary.” CNN ran a long piece on it in January, asking “Is AI schooling the future of education — or a risky bet?”  G.T. School is the gifted-and-talented branch of the same network, just a few miles north of…

The NASDAQ composite index ended Tuesday down 2.2 percent, a dive driven by falling tech stocks. AI and chip stocks spearheaded the decline, with key companies like Tesla (TSLA), and Nvidia (NVDA) down 5.82 and 3.91 percent respectively over the past five days.  One key driver of the decline was fear ahead of earnings reports from Micron Technology, a key chipmaker, after market close on Wednesday. Micron fell 13 percent on the day, alongside the South Korean chipmakers Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, which fell 12 percent over the same period.  Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your…

Landor v. Louisiana Department of Corrections and Public Safety is an unexpectedly significant case. I thought this was going to be another unanimous religious liberty case like Holt v. Hobbs or Tanzin v. Tanvir, where the conservatives and liberals unite to rule for a non-Christian plaintiff. (Ramirez v. Collier was 8-1, with only Thomas in dissent.) My prediction about Landor was very wrong. The final vote was 6-3. Justice Gorsuch wrote the majority opinion for the six conservatives, ruling against the Rastafarian whose dreads were cut off. Justice Jackson wrote the dissent for the three liberals, finding that RLUIPA permits monetary damages against the…