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AI vs. Paperwork
AT SEPTEMBER'S NATIONAL Conservatism Conference, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) argued Al “threatens the common man's liberty” and that “only humans should advise on critical medical treatments.” Yet Al promises to enhance the human experience by reducing the price of critical services like health care.
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December 2025
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Q&A Katie Engelhart
THE CANADIAN PULITZER Prize-winning journalist Katie Engelhart wrote the new book The Inevitable: Dispatches on the Right to Die.
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December 2025
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What Happened After Greta Rideout's Husband Raped Her
WOMAN SHOWS up at the police station and says she would like to press charges for rape.
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December 2025
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An Alarmingly Broad View of 'Public Health'
DEFENDING COVID-19 POLICIES against legal challenges, government officials relied heavily on Jacobson v. Massachusetts, a 1905 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a smallpox vaccine mandate imposed by the Cambridge Board of Health.
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December 2025
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'He Never Got To Go 'Home'
INSIDE TEXAS' SECRETIVE \"CIVIL COMMITMENT\" SYSTEM
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December 2025
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Inside Vernor Vinge's FBI File
VERNOR VINGE-THE Hugo Award-winning science fiction author who passed away in March 2024—imagined a world where individuals, not governments, held the power.
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December 2025
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Will Tariffs Steal Christmas?
SANTA CLAUS MIGHT be able to evade customs checkpoints as he magically smuggles toys into the country for the good boys and girls-but everyone else doing Christmas shopping this year could run into some problems.
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December 2025
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THEY THOUGHT LEGAL WEED MEANT FREEDOM. THEN THE DRONES CAME.
A CALIFORNIA COUNTY TRIED TO USE DRONES TO FIND ILLEGAL MARIJUANA OPERATIONS, BUT IT PUNISHED BUILDING CODE VIOLATIONS INSTEAD.
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December 2025
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Thank This Klansman for Your Freedom of Speech
A TWO-BIT BIGOT'S SUPREME COURT VICTORY REVERBERATES IN CONTEMPORARY DEBATES.
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December 2025
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The Art of the Presidential Health Cover-Up
WHEN THE St. Petersburg Times first launched PolitiFact in 2007, its purpose was to assess the veracity of statements made by “members of Congress, the president, cabinet secretaries, lobbyists, people who testify before Congress and anyone else who speaks up in Washington.”
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December 2025
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THE PUNISHER ISN'T A ROLE MODEL
MARVEL'S POPULAR VIGILANTE SAYS SOMETHING TROUBLING ABOUT THE STATE OF AMERICA'S MILITARIZED POLICE.
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December 2025
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'Trump Invasion' of American Cities
“CHICAGO MAYOR SHOULD be in jail for failing to protect Ice [sic] Officers!” President Donald Trump blasted on Truth Social on October 8. “Governor Pritzker also!”
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December 2025
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Politicians Make Political Tensions Worse
AT SEPTEMBER'S TELEVISED memorial service for Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump commented on the conservative commentator’s character, saying, \"He did not hate his opponents; he wanted the best for them.” He then added, “That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponents.
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December 2025
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Algorithmic Censorship Is Changing the Way We Talk
How slang emerges from social media rules
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December 2025
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Boycott Dystopia
HACKER PABLOS HOLMAN KNOWS THE FUTURE NEEDS MORE ENERGY.
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December 2025
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Chipping Away at CHIPS
IN MARCH, PRESIDENT Donald Trump blasted the Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) and Science Act of 2022.
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December 2025
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Knitters Need Free Trade
DANA CHADWELL FOUNDED Chattanooga Yarn Company three years ago.
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December 2025
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Less Indictable Than a Ham Sandwich
IN AUGUST 2025, President Donald Trump took control of the police force in Washington, D.C., and deployed the National Guard throughout the city.
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December 2025
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Don't Send Cubans and Venezuelans Back To Suffer Under Communism
\"UNDER MY ADMINISTRATION, we have taken decisive action to stand with the good people of Cuba and Venezuela,\" President Donald Trump said at the White House in 2017.
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December 2025
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MOVIE: SHIN GODZILLA
When a strange aquatic creature appears in Tokyo Bay, Japanese officials assure the public that there is no reason to worry that it could wreak havoc on shore.
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November 2025
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MOVIE: EDDINGTON
There's never been a movie quite like Eddington.
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November 2025
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REP. CHIP ROY SOMETIMES DISAGREES WITH HIS 'LIBERTARIAN BROTHERS AND SISTERS'
THE TEXAS CONGRESSMAN ON SPENDING, IMMIGRATION, AND THE AMERICAN DREAM
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November 2025
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MOVIE: WEAPONS
Weapons, the new horror film from writer-director Zach Cregger, is fascinatingly oblique.
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November 2025
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'Botched' Drug Raids Show How Prohibition Invites Senseless Violence
THE WAR ON DRUGS AUTHORIZES POLICE CONDUCT THAT OTHERWISE WOULD BE READILY RECOGNIZED AS CRIMINAL.
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November 2025
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Golden Ages Don't Last
BUT THEY CAN TEACH US A LOT ABOUT WHAT MAKES CIVILIZATIONS RISE AND FALL.
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November 2025
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PRANK: LARRY RICHARDSON
Google Scholar is a wonderful research resource. The free service covers a huge amount of the global scientific publishing enterprise, encompassing peer-reviewed articles, books, reports, conference papers, and preprints. It's easy to use and accessible to anyone.
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November 2025
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How 'National Security' Came Unmoored From Americans' Actual Security
THE IDEA OF “national security” is so ubiquitous that it is hard to imagine an American political culture without it.
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November 2025
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Trump Is the Coal President
COAL-THE DOMINANT fuel in the U.S., before it was steadily replaced by cheaper and cleaner energy sources—has found new life under President Donald Trump. In April, Trump issued an executive order to reinvigorate “America’s Beautiful Clean Coal Industry,” which directed federal agencies to remove regulatory barriers to coal production and coal mining on federal lands.
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November 2025
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TV: TOO MUCH
Lena Dunham's new Netflix series Too Much is a meandering, if still highly watchable, rom-com. The show chronicles 30-something Jessica, who relocates to London after a devastating breakup.
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November 2025
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MOVIE: DRACULA: A LOVE TALE
Luc Besson's Dracula: A Love Tale is a conservative interpretation of Bram Stoker's classic vampire novel.
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