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[ad_1] The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its May 2026 Consumer Price Index (CPI) report on June 10, confirming what many Americans already feel at the pump and in their wallets. Headline CPI rose 0.5% month-over-month and climbed to 4.2% year-over-year, the highest rate in roughly three years. This marks a sharp acceleration from April’s 3.8%. Core CPI, which strips out volatile food and energy prices, increased a milder 0.2% MoM and reached 2.9% YoY, up slightly from 2.8%. Energy prices dominated the headline figure. The energy index surged 3.9% in May, accounting for the lion’s share, over 60%, of the monthly…

[ad_1] June 11, 2026 Ed Sanders A song for the Fugs’ upcoming reunion concerts in Woodstock, New York. Oh, sometimes the Ship of Stateseems to face a shaky fateBut you know our Ship of Statealways has an eternal matein the United States Constitution Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!We keep the U.S. freefrom any monarch dingalingor authoritarian king! Hallelujah!  Our nation shall never fall!It’s strong and wide enough for All!! Sing! Sing! Sing!  America’s coming through!Sing! Sing! Sing! Surviving all the wayCoast to Coast, and Sea to lustrous Sea! Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!We keep the U.S. free to singWe banish ANY DINGALING!!!who would try…

[ad_1] Nobody in the United Kingdom can do arithmetic these days—especially not when it comes to the nation’s supermarkets. I once observed with amusement a shopper in the line ahead of me confused over a “Buy One, Get One Free” offer. The shopper had only brought one of said items to the checkout desk. The girl on duty mentioned the sale. “I know,” replied the woman. “But I don’t want two of them. So I’ve chosen to get the one I’ve bought for free instead.”  I now realize this mathematical moron must have been Rachel Reeves, the current UK Chancellor…

[ad_1] Human beings are “creatures of matter who long to matter,” says novelist and philosopher Rebecca Goldstein, whose new book is The Mattering Instinct: How Our Deepest Longing Drives Us and Divides Us. She talks with Nick Gillespie about how all humans struggle to figure out how to lead lives that justify our existence, both in the eyes of others and ourselves, and she describes remarkable cases of people who rescued children discarded during China’s one-child policy era, atheists who led leper colonies so the afflicted could die with dignity, and former neo-Nazis who seek to reform racist skinheads. A…

[ad_1] Today, Lawfare published my article “Callais Doesn’t Justify Court-Packing.” Here is an excerpt summarizing key points: The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Louisiana v. Callais—barring nearly all use of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) to create majority-minority congressional districts—has been met with outrage by many on the political left and led to renewed calls for court-packing. For example Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) has said that “[w]e need to expand this morally bankrupt court from nine to 13.” House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has said that “everything should be on the table,” presumably including court-packing. Former vice president and…

[ad_1] News from White House suggests Trump imposing limits on partner Netanyahu and that US did not provide missile defense in latest exchange of fire It remains unclear whether Iran’s effort to establish a new equation in the region has truly succeeded — an equation in which, for the first time, Iran would directly strike Israel if Israel attacks Lebanon. What is clear is that recent events suggest the strategic landscape may be shifting. Israel chose to defy President Trump and carry out strikes against Iran. Yet according to both Iranian and American sources, those Israeli attacks appear to have…

[ad_1] Prime Minister Netanyahu has been the longest serving prime minister of Israel, having assumed the office in 1996 and served off and on for a total of almost two decades. His upcoming election looks to be a tossup, so there’s a fair chance voters will show him the door. Even if they do, analysts would be fools to write him off altogether, as they’ve tried to do many times before. And even if “Bibi,” as he is known, doesn’t find a way back to power, the hardline militarism he represents will probably dominate Israeli politics for a long time.…

[ad_1] Buried within the “must-pass” annual defense authorization bill now before the House is a provision, Section 224, that would order the Pentagon to merge key parts of the American and Israeli defense technology sectors, creating a deeper level of military-industrial integration, analysts say, than the United States maintains with any other country on Earth.  Though presented by Israel and its American lobby as a way to draw down U.S. support for Israel, the Quincy Institute, which first reported the measure, describes it as a vehicle to move from the expiring 10-year, $3.8-billion-a-year U.S. aid package to Israel to enduring…

[ad_1] Lyndsey Fifield told ‘The New York Times’ Graham Platner emotionally abused her and became physical multiple times. So why is she under attack? Frannie Block and Audrey Fahlberg report. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Philadelphia still maintains the religious diversity it possessed in the founding era. It teaches us what a great idea religious liberty was. [ad_2] Source link