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Trump and his administration are hailing the new MOU to end the Iran war. But no one outside the small circle of negotiators has seen the document. Source link
Elon Musk and the American Spirit Source link
A Welfare Trillionaire Is Born Source link
Gaza requires urgent international attention. What is happening in the besieged and devastated Strip at the moment by far exceeds an unfolding humanitarian disaster; it is a calculated geopolitical reshaping. Israel is actively executing a plan to permanently occupy the vast majority of Gaza, with consequences that require little elaboration considering what we already know about the ongoing genocide. Currently, much of the international debate centers on a single official: Bulgarian diplomat Nickolay Mladenov. The former United Nations Special Coordinator has been designated by the United States as the Executive Director of the Trump administration’s newly established ‘Board of Peace’…
This is part of 1776 All-Stars, a series about Reason’s top American Founders. Read more here. Joanna Andreasson George Mason was not the greatest, the most admirable, or the most influential of the Founding Fathers. But he made enormous contributions that are often underrated. And I’m not saying that just because I teach at the university named after him. Mason was the principal drafter of the 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights, which became a key model for the other state constitutional bills of rights, and eventually for the federal Bill of Rights. Later, he was one of three members of…
A response to Onramp’s paper about the risks of Digital Credit, and how it can be replicated using a “simpler trade” of Bitcoin and US treasuries. The scale up of STRC and SATA has drawn in many detractors. Recently Onramp published a paper highlighting some issues of Digital Credit. There were some errors and the paper was clearly AI-generated in most places. My favorite error actually had little to do with Digital Credit, and it appeared in the preface of the report (imagine you haven’t even started reading the actual paper and you already see a factual error, this is the level of AI…
The city of Loveland, Colorado, will pay $675,000 to end a lawsuit against a police officer for shooting a family’s dog—a record settlement for the police killing of a pet in the state, the family’s attorney says. Wendy Love and Jay Hamm filed a civil rights lawsuit in 2021 accusing Loveland police officer Mat Grashorn of recklessly killing their 14-month-old dog, a Staffordshire terrier and boxer mix named Herkimer, in a 2019 incident. The lawsuit alleged that Grashorn’s shooting of Herkimer was an unreasonable seizure under the Fourth Amendment and violated their constitutional rights. Now Loveland has agreed to pay…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics Import and Export Price Index rose at its fastest rate year-over-year (YOY) since August 2022. Subscribe Today Get daily emails in your inbox From May 2025 to May 2026, import prices rose 6.7 percent, driven by a 45.1 percent increase in fuel and lubricant import prices. Export prices rose 11.2 percent over the same period led by prices for nonagricultural exports, which rose 11.8 percent YOY.Prices for U.S. imports rose 1.9 percent from April to May, following a similar increase from March to April of two percent. Export prices experienced a similar increase…
Every year, there are many more airplanes manufactured in the United States than the country’s domestic airlines can use. This is a rather straightforward fact, but it has some important ramifications for the Trump administration’s trade policies, so bear with me for a moment. During 2025, for example, Boeing churned out 600 commercial airliners from its assembly facilities in Washington state and South Carolina. Many of those planes were sold to foreign airlines and exported. Last year was no outlier: The U.S. routinely exports billions of dollars worth of commercial aircraft and airplane equipment. We make more than we can…
“Hell is empty; all the devils are here!” —Ferdinand in Shakespeare’s The Tempest I was six years and thirteen days old when the War broke out, and twelve when it ended. The greatest suffering I experienced at that time wasn’t due to material conditions—misery or hunger—or even to fear. It was caused by my parents’ absence and my heartrending longing to see them again, my isolated existence in a world turned strange and cold. I have already spoken on several occasions about those times. At the end of the 1970s, for the autobiography I was about to write, I gathered my…