California Governor Gavin Newsom suggested during a recent CNN appearance that to win again, Democrats need to become “more culturally normal.” In response to this obvious point, far-left commentators ...

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Critically, the big shift of talent to the U.S.—primarily from Europe, India, and China—proceeds apace. The United States remains a top destination for STEM professionals, offering some of the highest ...

Buried within the rocks of Mountain Pass are rare-earth elements—a group of metals that play a vital role in nearly every twenty-first-century technology. They help make the high-strength magnets that ...

Michel Houellebecq is a writer of the after—after history, after God, after politics, after romance, and after happiness. He chronicles a world in which we watch ourselves live, poisoned by irony, ...

Every year, schools invest immense sums of money in sports programs to cultivate the performance of students who show extraordinary athletic promise. In the 2024–2025 school year, more than 8 million ...

Who says Democrats have learned their lesson about “gender-affirming” treatments for kids? After the 2024 election, the party was reeling politically from its blind support of subjecting ...

Santiago Vidal Calvo is a Cities policy analyst, working primarily on government accountability and transparency through MI’s Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) efforts. He deploys open-records ...

California’s wealthy boomers are staying put as young families head for the exits, fleeing the anti-growth politics that make ...

Today, we’re looking at the rising number of health-care jobs, Carter-case spending in New York, and President Trump’s presence and influence.

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