The Tennessee House may pass a bill, but it cannot unmake a holy family built in a Tennessee home. Sarah Vance dismantles dangerous legislation by declaring that love needs no state permission to…

One thing that often gets missed in debates around the internet, particularly now that governments are locking everything away behind an age-verification wall is how our relationship to the internet…

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Full of shite! Germany’s Saarbrücken alltime record high temperature measurement was recoded at a station located at a sewage treatment facility in the middle of a commercial district. Since…

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He passed the audition, and Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, conflicted as he is between his criminal client and the nation he would putatively serve, awaits his confirmation hearing to replace…

This week: Questions about Singapore's pro-Mandarin policy, the use of the ISA, and salary issues for migrant workers (again).

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*[The saboteur's] cuts to intervention programs could increase violent crime, experts say. Community programs are more effective at reducing violence than simply making arrests, advocates say.*

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Randy Evans is executive director of the Iowa Freedom of Information Council, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes openness and transparency in Iowa’s state and local governments. He…

The Pennsylvania Trolley Museum has rolled out their second striking, one-off PCC livery in as many years, this time in honor of the semiquincentennial. As shown above, Port Authority Transit 1799 ,…

A Time of Monsters by Jonathan Rosen Walter Russell Mead identified a version of this phenomenon in his book The Arc of a Covenant: The United States, Israel, and the Fate of the Jewish People, where…

Listen! My lab’s radio show this month features the extraordinary Dr. Naim Aburradi. He and his friends have risked their safety to document life in Gaza, with a 360-degree camera, before and…

On the same stated cyber rationale, the Commerce Department pulled Anthropic's Fable 5 offline, the White House cleared OpenAI's GPT-5.6 for a chosen list of companies, and a second Commerce letter…

In one month, the US government switched one frontier AI model off worldwide, rationed a second to about a hundred approved companies, and held a third back before launch. One government now decides…

It was the ten-year anniversary of Brexit last week. That, and we are about to see Prime Minister number seven, since the vote. I don’t normally write about politics, but I read “Your…

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In most elections in the United States, we have "first past the post voting" in which whoever gets the most votes wins.

Chinese patents are mostly built on Chinese science rather than American science, according to a new working paper. Across every "critical technology area" shown, the U.S. share of…

The four astronauts who flew on the Artemis II mission to the moon in April have been put forward for the Congressional Gold Medal. Sen. Mark Kelly (a former space shuttle commander) and Rep. Don…

Hey TCPAWorld! Check this out. The Seventh Circuit recently issued an opinion in Hossfeld v. Allstate Ins. Co., Nos. 25-1518 & 25-1672, 2026 WL 1815908 (7th Cir. June 24, 2026), holding that…

California's AB2047 would force every 3D printer sold in the state to run state-certified software that detects and refuses to print firearm parts. As an engineer who owns and runs these machines, I…

It's tough to overstate how thoroughly the courts are beating back the Trump regime

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The Project of AI is a world-building endeavor, wherein those who fund and develop AI systems both operate through and seek to sustain networks of power and wealth. Janet Vertesi, Alex Taylor, Ben…

The Overdiagnosis of Market Failure Walk through any policy debate and you’ll hear the phrase “market failure” tossed around like confetti. It’s become the default justification for government…

Walk into any policy debate these days and you’ll hear it. Housing shortage? Market failure. Sky-high healthcare costs? Market failure. Concert tickets you can’t afford? Market failure. The phrase…

The Scottish Parliament has made some welcome changes to its procedures to increase transparency and accountability but, unfortunately, they do not appear to be making much of a difference. The first…

A lot of ink has been spilled on this blog lately concerning the question of whether texts are “calls” under Section 227(c) of the TCPA. This week, a court in the Southern District of Texas touched…

I’m dating these references, but it’s to make a point. What’s happened in society when there are no more leading characters like Inspector Clouseau, Maxwell Smart, and my personal favorite,…

无论停火是否临近，冲突双方均已开始盘点各自的战略现实。分析应避免陷入过度强调零和博弈的窠臼（例如将技术性停火或人道停火视为缓兵之计？），也应避免低估现存外交框架的弹性（例如赫尔辛基进程的启发性），或倾向于将复杂的政治人物简化为单一标签。事实上，除了传统的西方与俄罗斯博弈之外，全球南方的中立立场本身已构成一种力量。它们的角色或许不在于强制执行和平，而在于确立一条底线：即任何无视其核心利益的和平方案都…

The mainstream, centrist Democratic Party is like a waiter who keeps bringing you back the soup even after you tell him over and over you don’t like the soup. Don’t keep bringing back the…

A federal "disparate impact" guidance could persuade employers to stop requiring college degrees when they're not necessary.

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There’s a reason why your next iPhone is about to get a lot more expensive: the northern long-eared bat. This species of bat is federally recognized as endangered, and it nests in a stretch of forest…

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FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 2026 They slime the first lady — of France! Is the UFC's Josh Hokit a racist? Asking a slightly different question, was his pitiful statement on June 14 a racist act? We don't know…

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New Politics for the Next Economy available here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6P5MZ6Z/ At our country's 250th anniversary, I've described four past Americas and a fifth, new America that is ours to…

The Sara Polston early-release scandal has somehow gotten even more infuriating. Back in May, a grand jury report found that Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt used his power, influence and “close…

Biden Immigrant-invader Judge Rules Privacy Rights of Illegals More Important than Honest Elections Paul Craig Roberts Yesterday I wrote about […]

Peng Dehuai’s 1959 private letter to Mao Zedong. Mao circulated the letter at the Lushan Conference and had Peng criticized for it. From Wikipedia: Lushan Conference The Lushan Conference was a…

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How to avoid a "templated letters" rejection for your Global Talent Visa application.

The Trump administration has said that it is now policy to not send meaningful reinforcements to Europe in case of a military conflict. Most notably, super carriers, carrier aviation, extra fighter…

So Britain will soon wave off yet another prime minister; they’ve been dropping like flies ever since the 2016 Brexit vote. At the Guardian, John Crace snarks that come Remembrance Sunday…

The Board overturned a refusal to register the mark ONETOUCH for "Agricultural machines, namely, aerators, seeders, spreaders," finding that Applicant Stinger's specimens of use were acceptable. The…