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The Yale committee looked at a 2025 Pew Research Center survey that found 70% of Americans say higher education is heading in the wrong direction. Source link
The power of the purse is the surest way Congress can stop the Iran war, or any war. If Congress funds war, Congress authorizes it. If Congress cuts off funds, a war will end. Up to 15,000 of the 50,000 American troops in the Middle East region are being positioned to participate in an assault on Kharg Island, Iran’s critical oil export hub, with the aspiration that America, once in control of Kharg, will turn the tables and assume dominance, opening the Strait of Hormuz for the U.S. and allies, while cutting off Iran from its major source of oil revenue.…
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The hugely popular, politically eclectic podcaster Joe Rogan, who endorsed Donald Trump in the 2024 election, says he recently sent the president information about ibogaine, a psychedelic whose boosters portray it as an astonishingly effective treatment for addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), and other psychological problems. “The text message came back,” Rogan said on Saturday as Trump signed an executive order aimed at “accelerating medical treatments for serious mental illness.” According to Rogan, Trump replied: “Sounds great. Do you want FDA approval? Let’s do it.” Trump’s order may or may not result in ibogaine’s approval as a psychotherapeutic catalyst. But…
The recent leak of internal Supreme Court memoranda to the New York Times, discussed earlier by Jonathan Adler and Josh Blackman—as well as by Will Baude and Jack Goldsmith elsewhere—was plainly a serious violation of the Court’s confidentiality obligations. But it may also reflect serious legal-ethics violations by one of the Times article’s coauthors, Adam Liptak, whom I understand to be a licensed attorney in New York and subject to that state’s Rules of Professional Conduct. * * * There are at least two theories under which Liptak may have violated the ethics rules. First, Liptak may have violated Rule 8.4(f) of…
Two-Week Reprieve “Big money will be made.” The remark was made by President Donald J. Trump on Truth Social following the ceasefire deal with Iran. Who will make the big money is unclear. But it sounds good, nonetheless. With the announcement of the two-week reprieve in bomb dropping and missile strikes, and the supposed resumption of shipping through the Strait of Hormuz, the price of oil promptly dropped over 16 percent. By Wednesday morning both WTI and Brent crude were below $95 per barrel. Perhaps two weeks will turn into a permanent ceasefire with Iran. As far as the greater Middle East…
On March 2, 2026, the Supreme Court decided Mirabelli v. Bonta. This emergency docket case ruled against California’s policy of secretly transitioning children without their parents’ consent. This ruling follows naturally from Pierce v. Society of Sisters and Meyer v. Nebraska. Justice Kagan complained (though not loudly enough to shake the walls) that the Court should have decided this issue on the merits docket. She pointed to a specific cert petition that had been pending since November 2025: Foote v. Ludlow School Commitee from the First Circuit. Kagan wrote: And still, there is worse: The Court resolves the issues raised through shortcut procedures…
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Steve Sachs writes that Adam Liptak, a member of the New York Bar, may have transgressed certain rules of professional conduct by publicizing the leaked SCOTUS documents. Steve raises the broader concern of how journalistic ethics interact with legal ethics. A lawyer-journalist can easily resolve this tension by resigning from the bar, but there are professional reasons for maintaining that license. The Supreme Court publishes a list of about two dozen “Hard Pass Holders.” A good number of them are attorneys. One of those names is none other than Joan Biskupic, who has been an inactive member of the D.C.…
In late February, I went to Austin, Texas, to see America’s health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., headline an “Eat Real Food” rally. A Steak ’n’ Shake food truck was on site, offering free burgers and tallow-fried fries. A band of lanky young men with shaggy beards warmed up the crowd of a few hundred people with “swampadelic-country-rock” songs. As Mr. Kennedy touted the virtues of eating liver and cooking at home, supporters cheered and held up posters featuring steak and cartons of whole milk.Read Full Article ⟶ Source link