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President Donald Trump has touted more than $500 billion in prescription drug savings over 10 years from his policies. But the savings are largely aspirational, and not based on the more limited actions the administration has taken so far. The administration’s most favored nation policy seeks to bring down drug prices to levels paid in other countries. The bulk of the savings, estimated in a May 5 report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers, comes from assuming that all new drugs will be sold in the U.S. at MFN prices going forward, saving $529 billion. A smaller amount…

AI-generated image. Today, in United States v. Hemani, the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment prevents the federal government from banning gun ownership by marijuana users. Unusually for a Second Amendment case, the ruling is unanimous. It’s a significant application and extension of the Court’s 2022 ruling in the 2022 Bruen case, which sought to put more meat on the bones of Second Amendment rights by establishing a “history and tradition” test for reviewing gun regulations.  It’s a great moment for those of us who both support strong Second Amendment rights and hate the War on Drugs (elsewhere, I…

Designer Science: A History of IntelligentDesign in America. By C.W. Howell. NewYork University Press, 2025. Twenty years after the Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District trial, in which a federal court found that intelligent design is neither scientifically credible nor detachable from its creationist antecedents, C.W. Howell offers a history of the intelligent design movement that is neither a hostile polemic nor a partisan apologetic. In the introduction, Howell explains that he was reared as a young-earth creationist and then was interested in intelligent design while in high school and college, but he now regards himself as a theistic evolutionist.…

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In 1987, Carl Sagan published a two-page article in Parade magazine titled “The Fine Art of Baloney Detection.” He picked Parade due to its readership (at the time) of sixty-five million. In the first sidebar, he even highlighted The Skeptical Inquirer, calling it “cheerful, irreverent, instructive and often funny.” Wow, that must have done wonders for our subscriptions! Sagan also warned that “when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results are catastrophic.” After describing critical thinking skills as “tough habits,” he closed with: “if we don’t practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to…

Globalism is finally becoming passe. But it won’t go down without a fight. Source link

Another way to look at it is whether, by resolving his biggest immediate foreign policy challenge, he can also solve his main domestic political problem. Source link

I just saw two video clips that sum up the two sides of the current debate over the Iran War and the Trump administration’s efforts to end it.  The first is a clip of President Donald Trump discussing the prospects for peace with Iran. Of particular interest: his remarks about the need for Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to restrain himself and stop Israel’s bloodshed in Lebanon. Like any sane person, Trump sees the problems with Hezbollah, the Iran-backed terrorist group that threatens Lebanese and Israelis alike. But again, like any sane person, he holds Israel to basic standards of…

Adolf Hitler and IOC President Henri de Baillet-LatourBaillet-Latour entering the Olympic Stadium in Berlin for the Opening Ceremonies of the 1936 games. The first surprise in store for us with this 2026 World Cup is the impressive amnesia of everyone involved, including the international media. Nothing, not a word, absolutely no mention of its infamous “ancestor,” the 1936 Berlin Olympics. For, despite the 90 years that separate them, the elective affinities between Hitler’s Olympics and Trump’s World Cup are glaringly obvious: the same propagandistic exploitation of the sporting event by the same authoritarian, racist, and freedom-suppressing regimes led by megalomaniacal…

Obama Confronts Work That Remains for Dems–and Him Source link