Boston Mayor Michelle Wu drew sharp attention on Monday after crediting the city’s Somali community with virtually all of Boston’s major accomplishments, remarks that came as Somali communities nationwide face heightened scrutiny over a massive fraud case in Minnesota. Speaking at a public event, Wu said Boston’s progress across nearly every major metric could not […]
KUALA LUMPUR/PHNOM PENH, Dec. 24, 2025 — Cambodia and Thailand agreed to hold defense-level talks on Christmas Eve in an effort to revive a ceasefire after nearly three weeks of intense border fighting, regional officials said. The discussions come as clashes continue along the two countries’ disputed frontier, raising pressure on both governments to halt […]
A simple principle should govern health care delivery. The professional who examines the patient, makes the diagnosis, and bears legal responsibility for the outcome should control treatment. Texas law rejects that principle. It erects a wall between doctors and the medications they prescribe, while empowering pharmacists who have never met the patient to veto care […]
High Court Upholds Lower Court Block on Trump’s Troop Plan WASHINGTON (Dec. 23, 2025) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to allow the Trump administration to deploy National Guard troops in the Chicago area, rejecting an emergency request to overturn lower court rulings that have blocked the deployment, court orders show. The 6-3 […]
LAFOURCHE PARISH, La. — A Louisiana middle school expelled a 13-year-old girl after she struck a classmate she says created and spread a sexually explicit, AI-generated image of her — a decision now fueling national outrage and a looming federal lawsuit. According to the family’s attorneys, the fake image circulated among students for weeks, including […]
PAUL’S DEFENSE BRIEF (PDB) – Top aide to Vladimir Putin contradicted U.S. claims that three days of peace talks in Miami went well, calling several of Washington’s proposals meant to end Russia’s war with Ukraine “rather unconstructive.” Progress is “quite solid.” Initial drafts of U.S. proposals for a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia meet many […]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — China has filed a retaliatory lawsuit seeking roughly $50 billion in damages against the state of Missouri, sharply escalating a years-long legal dispute tied to the origins and handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. The lawsuit, filed in a court in Wuhan, names multiple Chinese government entities and institutions as plaintiffs, including […]
George Conway, a prominent conservative attorney and longtime critic of President Donald Trump, filed paperwork Monday with the Federal Election Commission to explore a bid for Congress as a Democrat. Conway, a co-founder of The Lincoln Project — a group of self-described Republicans formed to oppose Trump’s presidency — is considering a run in New […]
For decades, Americans were told a story about their health that no longer matched reality. We were assured that food was safe, that regulators were vigilant, that medical advice was insulated from politics and profit, and that rising chronic disease was an unfortunate but unavoidable byproduct of modern life. Meanwhile, the health of the nation […]
Former Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse (R) revealed days before Christmas that he has been diagnosed with metastatic stage-four pancreatic cancer, calling it a “death sentence.” “This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, […]
A senior Russian general was killed Monday after a bomb detonated beneath his car in southern Moscow, a brazen assassination that underscores growing security concerns inside Russia as the war with Ukraine drags on. Authorities said Lt. Gen. Fanil Sarvarov, 56, died from his injuries after the early-morning blast, which occurred around 6:55 a.m. as […]
How 20,000 Emus Defeated The Australian Army
It is the holiday season. Most of the year, I write about policy, institutions, incentives, and the quiet ways governments fail. That work matters. But seasons matter too. Holidays are for perspective. They are for stepping back from abstractions and remembering that political authority, for all its seriousness, sometimes wanders into outright absurdity. With that […]