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[ad_1] Over the past week, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has faced his biggest political crisis since this time last year. And just as they did back then, Western analysts and media outlets have concocted a pro-Zelensky narrative that downplays evident political dysfunction and misrepresents the struggles for power that are actually driving events. Last July, Zelensky signed a law that sharply limited the autonomy of Ukraine’s main anticorruption agencies by placing them under the control of the prosecutor general, an official appointed by the president (i.e., handpicked by Zelensky). Protesters flooded the streets, and the European Union reacted harshly, warning…

[ad_1] Earlier this week, lawyers for Ohio craft brewery owner John Ream, who wants to distill hard liquor at home for his own personal use but is barred from doing so by federal law, asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear what could prove to be a major case about the reach of federal power. The case is Ream v. U.S. Department of the Treasury. At issue is the constitutionality of the federal ban on home distilling. According to the federal government, the ban on making hard liquor at home is a legitimate exercise of the congressional power “to regulate…

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[ad_1] Over the past several years, a regulatory crusade spanning both the Biden and Trump administrations has hyperscrutinized Google’s search engine and business practices in an attempt to label the company a monopoly and justify unprecedented government intervention into Alphabet’s most widely used product. Now Congress is weighing in. A bipartisan group of senators has introduced the Securing Enforcement of Americans’ Right to Competition at Home (SEARCH) Act, which would prohibit dominant search engines from using certain default distribution agreements or favoring their own services over competitors in search results.  Companies that fail to follow these directives will be subject…

[ad_1] If you communicate with people overseas – friends, family, coworkers – the federal government will likely never acknowledge it collected your communications. Unless, perhaps, you have a large cable TV audience and politicians willing to demand answers. That at least is the lesson to be drawn from records obtained by the Cato Institute through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation against National Security Agency (NSA). Those records illuminate two very different cases. My own experience illustrates the first case. In 2019, I filed a Privacy Act request asking the NSA whether it possessed records mentioning me. Years earlier, while serving as…

[ad_1] In a podcast released Thursday, Elbridge Colby, undersecretary of defense for policy and an old friend of The American Conservative, sat down for a tête-à-tête with his old schoolmate, the New York Times’ Ross Douthat.  Colby, for the folks keeping track back home, was the mastermind of the first Trump administration’s China-prioritizing defense policy and the author of The Strategy of Denial, a 2021 book further articulating his strategic vision for prioritizing Chinese containment. One of the pillars of his theory was that the Persian Gulf region is not a major priority for American national interests, and that the…

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[ad_1] You definitely won’t die of boredom reading the Friday Grail news briefs! What lies beneath Karahantepe? A 12,000-year-old stone-sealed chamber will soon be opened. US President Donald Trump has directed federal agencies to waive prior nondisclosure agreements (NDAs) for former government employees and contractors cooperating with UFO investigations. Centimillionaire biohacker Bryan Johnson says he’s ‘cloned himself as a baby’ so that he can ‘become my own blood boy’ and ‘grow organs for transplantation’. This hidden pattern in the Sun could predict solar storms years in advance. Ancient eclipses: From angry gods to Sun-eating dragons, how our ancestors worshipped and…

[ad_1] Students have taken on five figures of debt to buy back a certification that their grandparents’ society produced for free. [ad_2] Source link