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Photograph Source: NYC Mayor’s Office – CC BY 4.0 Zohran Mamdani has only been in office as New York City’s first Muslim mayor since January 1. In that short time, Mamdani has landed in trouble which just might bring down his administration almost before it has begun. It’s not trouble over anything Mamdani himself has done. A headline in the Jewish Insider tells the story: “Mamdani’s Wife [Rama Duwaji] Liked Social Media Posts Celebrating Oct. 7.” October 7, 2023 was the date when Hamas, the Islamic militant group which controls Gaza, carried out a series of surprise attacks on Israel. Hamas slaughtered 1,195 people—at…
Your dollar has lost 96-97 percent of its purchasing power since 1913. This is not bad luck or mysterious market forces. It is the result of deliberate policy choices that steadily, quietly drained your wealth—and convinced you it was being done for your benefit. The World That Was Stolen For over a hundred years after America’s founding—roughly 1774 to 1900—prices did not steadily rise. Net cumulative inflation over that entire century was close to zero. Prices often fell, not because of poverty or collapse, but because of human ingenuity: more efficient factories, labor-saving machines, railroads slashing transportation costs, etc. Each…
April 17, 2026 Algernon Austin Donald J. Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes the year he won the presidency [in 2016]. In his first year in the White House, he paid another $750. He had paid no income taxes at all in 10 of the previous 15 years — largely because he reported losing much more money than he made. —The New York Times, September 27, 2020 Trump Organization found guilty of tax fraud in scheme hatched by top executives —PBS, December 6, 2022 Frank J. Bisignano is the Chief Executive Officer of the Internal Revenue Servicewhen he is…
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Among the great many bogeymen of the current moment is social media, which stands accused of making young people anxious and unhappy. Whatever the merits of those charges—and they’re debatable—politicians have predictably tried to address concerns by applying the blunt instrument of coercive law to kids’ online activities rather than simply let parents help their children make better choices. The experience in Australia now shows the subjects of the law have, once again, proven cleverer than law enforcers. You are reading The Rattler from J.D. Tuccille and Reason. Get more of J.D.’s commentary on government overreach and threats to everyday…
April 17, 2026 Kenn Maurice Members of the Tehran Jewish community navigating the site where the Rafi’-Nia synagogue was destroyed, as depicted and recorded by Mehr News Agency. Controversy was stirred recently due to a photograph used by a leftwing Italian newspaper depicting an illegal Jewish settler mocking an Indigenous Palestinian woman in the occupied West Bank. Israel supporters have lambasted the magazine for alleged antisemitism. But nothing was said about the man’s ethnic or religious heritage or identity. It merely used the image with the title “L’Abuso” or “Abuse.” And it is not AI or CGI. It is a…
Short-term FISA extension. The House voted early Friday to extend the expiring Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for another 10 days, as members debate whether to include privacy protections in a longer-term extension of the law. The House vote extends FISA, which was set to expire on Monday, through April 30. Some Republican House members have been demanding that Section 702 of the law, which allows the federal government to collect the communications of foreigners as well as Americans they communicate with without a warrant, be amended to include additional privacy protections. Some lawmakers want to require that the government get…
By Chris Hedges / The Chris Hedges Report Chris Hedges Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is the host of show The Chris Hedges Report. He was a member of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for The New York Times coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty International Global…
People often ask me if I always wanted to be a law professor, or if I always knew I wanted to be a lawyer. The answer to both questions is no. My entire youth focused on technology. I went to Staten Island Technical High School, a leading engineering high school. For college, I received a degree in Information, Sciences & Technology at Penn State. I did not take a single constitutional law or political science class in my undergraduate education. (I took one class on business law, but that doesn’t really count.) After graduation, I would begin working at the…
Cover art for the book How to Be a Dissident By Gal Beckerman At the start of the Nevada Desert Experience’s Sacred Peace Walk, a 60-mile journey each Spring from Las Vegas to the nuclear test site, witnessing against drone warfare, for indigenous land rights as well as against nuclear weapons, one of the walkers passed out copies of How to be a Dissident by Gal Beckerman to some of us for our comments in advance of a podcast interview with the author. I was hoping to find how Beckerman’s advice might apply to being a dissident in the present…