Author: nick

[ad_1] Mail-order abortion is preserved, for now: “We are pleased that a safe and effective drug Americans depend on will continue to be available while this litigation proceeds,” a spokesperson for Danco Laboratories (makers of mifepristone) said in the wake of the Supreme Court deciding to grant a stay to a federal appeals court decision that had briefly required patients seeking abortions to make an in-person visit to a provider vs. getting the drugs dispensed by mail. Pills are used in more than 60 percent of abortions nowadays. This decision allows them to be distributed by mail in the meantime while…

[ad_1] Photograph Source: A. C. for Unsplash+ In May, 2025, a restaurant worker in Thailand asked an Israeli tourist to remove her shoes before entering the establishment, a traditional cultural custom in the country. The tourist refused to take off her shoes, shouting, “My money helps build your country.” Everything was caught on a video which went viral. The incident sparked a debate about the open secret of rudeness and aggression rife in Israeli tourists abroad. A discussion long forbidden, as most who even hinted at the phenomenon were tarred as antisemitic for suggesting this. But since the onset of…

[ad_1] From Trump v. Dow Jones & Co., decided Wednesday by Judge Darrin Gayles (S.D. Fla.): On July 18, 2025, President Donald J. Trump filed his Complaint … for defamation based on an article in the Wall Street Journal … linking President Trump to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. On April 13, 2026, on Defendants’ motion, the Court dismissed the Complaint without prejudice based on President Trump’s failure to plausibly allege that Defendants acted with actual malice …. [See this post on the dismissal. -EV] On April 14, 2026, President Trump filed the Motion, requesting leave to conduct limited discovery…

[ad_1] Having a good survival book on hand is almost as important as having the right gear. In fact, when things go sideways, knowledge often matters more than the gear itself. Anyone can buy equipment. Anyone can throw a few supplies in a bag. But when a real crisis hits—when the power is out, communication networks are down, and help isn’t coming—you’re going to rely on one thing above everything else: what you know. That’s where a good survival book becomes invaluable. Unlike a website or video that disappears the second the grid goes down, a book is always there. No…

[ad_1] Let’s say you’ve worked hard, saved money, and decided to buy a house to rent out. You want to purchase it outright, with cash, through an LLC to save thousands on financing costs and limit your personal liability. You’re not laundering drug money. You’re not funneling proceeds from some shadowy foreign government. You’re doing exactly what millions of Americans do every year for perfectly boring, legitimate reasons. Under a sweeping rule finalized by the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) in 2024, that kind of transaction would be automatically treated as “suspicious” and reported to the federal government. The rule…

[ad_1] Back when George W. Bush was doing his big drive to privatize Social Security, I got upset because he was using bogus numbers that grossly exaggerated what his private accounts would yield. The basic story was that his team assumed that stocks would provide the same returns they had in prior decades, even though the price-to-earnings ratios in the stock market were far higher than in the past, and projected GDP and profit growth were much lower. Given the assumptions being used on profit growth, their assumptions on returns were virtually impossible. To illustrate this point, I developed the…

[ad_1] Rep. Thomas Massie (R–Ky.) is fighting for his political life. Next week, voters in his district will decide whether to retain the long-serving libertarian Republican—or whether to fall in line with President Donald Trump, who is furious with Massie for opposing the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the Trump tariffs, and the administration’s increasingly neoconservative foreign policy agenda. Trump has endorsed Massie’s opponent, Ed Gallrein. In their quest to unseat Massie, the congressman’s enemies have surfaced a desperate, unfair, and vague accusation of personal wrongdoing. Cynthia West, a former girlfriend of Massie, has alleged that he paid her $5,000…

[ad_1] Over the past few years, the U.S. government has been experimenting with using economic sanctions to shut up voices that annoy it. In 2021, the Biden administration seized the websites of several news outlets it accused of being Iranian propagandists (including some that turned out to be Iranian dissident outlets). And in 2025, the Trump administration sanctioned U.N. Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese for recommending prosecutions of companies that benefit from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused Albanese of waging “lawfare that targets U.S. and Israeli persons.” On Wednesday, a U.S. federal court blocked the Department of…

[ad_1] Late last month, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. testified that he was making Long COVID a top priority, noting that his own son had been “debilitated” by the disease. It is certainly terrible that Secretary Kennedy’s son is among the millions of Long COVID sufferers in the US alone. But it’s difficult to take the Secretary seriously when he asserts his commitment to helping Long COVID patients, given that he has done an awful lot to contradict that claim directly. Long COVID is a chronic, multisystem condition that persists following an infection with SARS-CoV-2,…

[ad_1] Maria and Peter are students and meet up for a late dinner. Peter asks Maria whether Tom is at the party that they intend to go to after dinner. Maria answers that Tom is at the party. After all, Tom had told her that he would be at the party. When they arrive at the party, it turns out that Tom had changed his plans, and is not at the party. This was the scenario posed to research participants in a new study by a team of European researchers. They were then asked: Was Maria’s answer true or false?…