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Sonia Sotomayor wept bitter tears in her long dissent. The very idea of presidential immunity is anti-democratic [...]
Joe Biden's backers care not a whit about voters beyond whether they can manipulate them enough to retain power. [...]
The debate spin isn't working. And Joe Biden is losing. [...]
![Dems Gaslit America for 4 Years in the Name of 'Democracy'](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/654952_3_.jpeg)
They've deceived and gaslit us for four years, all in the name of ‘democracy.' That collapsed Thursday. [...]
![Why You Shouldn't Panic About Biden's Debate Performance](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/655204_3_.jpeg)
Almost all of Biden's recent predecessors also managed to faceplant hard in their first debate as an incumbent. [...]
![Biden DOJ's Lawfare Against Trump Hits Huge Roadblock](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/654580_3_.jpeg)
The Supreme Court ruled Monday in a 6-3 decision that presidents have 'at least presumptive immunity' for all 'official acts.' [...]
![The Supreme Court Gives Its Blessing to Trump's Criminality](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/655134_3_.jpeg)
Near the top of their sweeping, lawless opinion in Trump v. United States, Donald Trump's defenders on the Supreme Court repeat one of the most basic principles of American constitutional government: "The president is not above the law." They then proceed to obliterate it. [...]
![The Party of Dementia, Derangement, and Dysphoria](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/655203_3_.jpeg)
Like Alzheimer's, dementia and addiction, mental illness is an affliction that attacks whole families. [...]
![First Lady Jill Biden on What's at Stake in 2024](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/655202_3_.jpeg)
Each campaign is unique. But this one, the urgency is different. [...]
![Joe Scarborough Drags Down MSNBC's Credibility](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/655200_3_.jpeg)
Two Joes, Biden and Scarborough, lay low after the president's disastrous debate performance [...]
![France Is Turning Into a Cradle of Insecurity](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/655199_3_.jpeg)
I am translating this horrifying, heartbreaking testimony from Lili R. Many people who don't live in France might not understand how bad things have become. [...]
![The Crumbling of the French Establishment](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/655197_3_.jpeg)
The surge in support for National Rally reflects the abject failure of Macron's technocratic centrism. [...]
![It's Election Time in UK. Will There Be a Labour Landslide?](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/655008_3_.jpeg)
This Thursday, the United Kingdom is heading for a historic day. Voters across the UK will go to the polls in the first general election since December 2019, when the Labour Party lost its fourth successive election to Boris Johnson's Conservatives, who won a thumping 80-seat parliamentary majority. Extraordinarily, it looks like the Labour Party will now win this election, and usher out fourteen years of continuous but chaotic Conservative governments. [...]
![Behind the Curtain: Biden's Salvation Plan](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/655153_3_.jpeg)
A massive political, PR and personal campaign is underway to reject calls for President Biden to drop his re-election race - and rally Democrats to move on from public debate about age and his future, top officials tell us. [...]
![Debate Exposed the Dem Media's Fabrications](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/655154_3_.jpeg)
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time." - Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln [...]
Uber driver Hussein Khalil was battling traffic in Beirut when he found himself in the Gaza Strip -- according to his online map, anyway -- as location jamming blamed on Israel disrupts life in Lebanon."We've been dealing with this problem a lot for around five months," said Khalil, 36."Sometimes we can't work at all," the disgruntled driver told AFP on Beirut's chaotic, car-choked streets."Of course, we are losing money." [...]
Israeli forces carried out deadly strikes Tuesday on southern Gaza and battled militants after the army again ordered Palestinians to leave areas near the besieged territory's border with Israel and Egypt.Witnesses reported intense bombing and shelling around Khan Yunis, southern Gaza's main city from which Israeli forces withdrew in early April after a devastating months-long battle.A hospital source in the city said shelling killed eight people and wounded more than 30 others. [...]
Iranian artist Mohammad Hossein Aghamiri sometimes labours for six months on a single design, very carefully -- he knows a single crooked line could ruin his entire artwork. In the age of AI-assisted graphic design on computer screens, the centuries-old tradition of Persian illumination offers an antidote to rushing the creative process.Aghamiri's fine brush moves natural pigments onto the paper with deliberate precision as he creates intricate floral patterns, religious motifs and elegantly flowing calligraphy. [...]
Every morning Palestinian boxer Waseem Abu Sal checks texts from his Cairo-based coach -- a Gazan who cannot travel to him in the occupied West Bank -- to see his daily Olympics training schedule as he prepares to make history.The 20-year-old will be the first Palestinian boxer to participate in the Olympics after he bagged a wildcard spot and now dreams of delivering the first-ever medal for the Palestinians when he competes in Paris."This has been my dream since I was 10 years old," he told AFP the day after receiving the invitation last week. [...]
The first round of talks began in Ankara on Monday with the top diplomats of Turkey, Somalia and Ethiopia. [...]
Taliban authorities were told women must be included in public life, UN Under-Secretary-General Rosemary DiCarlo said on Monday as she defended a decision to sideline civil society groups at official talks in Doha. Rights organisations have strongly criticised the controversial UN move to exclude the groups, including women's rights activists, from the two-day meeting on Afghanistan as the price for the Taliban government's participation. [...]
Four people were killed after armed protesters and Turkish forces clashed in Syria's Ankara-controlled northwest Monday, a war monitor said, in demonstrations sparked by violence against Syrians in Turkey a day earlier.Hundreds demonstrated throughout the territory, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, following a rampage against Syrian businesses and properties in central Turkey where a Syrian man had been accused of harassing a child. [...]
Several states have issued warnings about travel to Lebanon recently due to the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. [...]
Several states have issued warnings about travel to Lebanon recently due to the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. [...]
Several states have issued warnings about travel to Lebanon recently due to the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. [...]
Several states have issued warnings about travel to Lebanon recently due to the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah. [...]
The top US diplomat urged Israel to present a credible post-war governance plan as it shifts to a new, lower-intensity phase in its operations against Hamas. [...]
The top US diplomat urged Israel to present a credible post-war governance plan as it shifts to a new, lower-intensity phase in its operations against Hamas. [...]
The top US diplomat urged Israel to present a credible post-war governance plan as it shifts to a new, lower-intensity phase in its operations against Hamas. [...]
The top US diplomat urged Israel to present a credible post-war governance plan as it shifts to a new, lower-intensity phase in its operations against Hamas. [...]
On Aug. 2, 1990, upon landing for a planned refueling in Kuwait, the crew and passengers of BA149 were taken hostage by Iraqi forces to be used as human shields against the Western military response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. [...]
On Aug. 2, 1990, upon landing for a planned refueling in Kuwait, the crew and passengers of BA149 were taken hostage by Iraqi forces to be used as human shields against the Western military response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. [...]
On Aug. 2, 1990, upon landing for a planned refueling in Kuwait, the crew and passengers of BA149 were taken hostage by Iraqi forces to be used as human shields against the Western military response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. [...]
The move comes as the region is boiling in light of the war in Gaza and the escalating conflict between Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Israel. [...]
The move comes as the region is boiling in light of the war in Gaza and the escalating conflict between Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Israel. [...]
![How the S&P 500 Rules Everything Around Me](https://assets.realclear.com/images/64/641504_3_.jpeg)
Joseph Calhoun, Alhambra Investments The 2nd quarter is officially over and it was one of the strangest I've experienced in my 33 year career. To jump straight to the punchline, if you owned [...]
![Don't Hit Taxpayers w/Freddie Mac's Mission Creep](https://assets.realclear.com/images/42/424388_3_.jpg)
Michael Bright, RealClearMarkets Freddie Mac - a federal government-controlled mortgage lending giant - wants to expand its presence in the bond market by starting to buy second mortgages. [...]
![Corporations Have Already Paid Huge Taxes. Bring Rate to Zero](https://assets.realclear.com/images/59/597212_3_.jpeg)
John Tamny, RCM It cannot be stressed enough that the corporation as a taxpaying entity is a fiction. And the previous assertion should in no way be construed as a suggestion that [...]
![Wall Street Would Gain From Project 2025](https://assets.realclear.com/images/64/643021_3_.jpeg)
Marc Jarsulic & Lilith Fellowes-Granda, CAP New CAP analysis gauges the potential effects of a present-day financial disaster on workers and the economy if a far-right plan to put short-term [...]
![Biden Defies Courts On Student Loans. Will He Listen?](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/655166_3_.jpg)
Ingrid Jacques, USA TODAY President Joe Biden has rolled out several student loan forgiveness schemes that abuse his executive authority. [...]
![Chevron's Demise Curbs Agency Power, Boosts Congress's](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/654150_3_.jpeg)
Randolph May, RealClear As advertised, the Supreme Court's overdue burial of the forty-year-old Chevron doctrine on June 28 in [...]
![With Chevron Overturned, Faith In Gov't Will Shrink Even More](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/654252_3_.jpeg)
Stuart Shapiro, Hill On Friday, the Supreme Court overturned [...]
![Generation X Coming Up On Big Retirement Milestone](https://assets.realclear.com/images/60/602043_3_.jpeg)
Kailey Hagen, The Motley Fool Accessing life savings is about to get a lot cheaper for some members of Generation X, but that doesn't mean now is the time to crack open nest eggs. [...]
![Trump and Rubio Double Down On the 'Black Jobs' Comment](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/655163_3_.jpeg)
Ja'han Jones, MSNBC Team Trump is trying to defend one of the ugliest comments from last week's debate, and it's going as poorly as you might expect. [...]
![Biden Outpaces Trump In Racking Up Debt](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/654935_3_.jpg)
Stephen Moore & E. J. Antoni, New York Post We saw a classic case of projection in Thursday's presidential debate, when President Biden — overseeing annual budget deficits of $2 trillion — [...]
![DOJ Trying To Coax Boeing Into Sweetheart Deal](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/651838_3_.jpeg)
Jeremiah Poff, Washington Examiner The Department of Justice wants to give Boeing a slap on the wrist for its continued fatal failures. Such an action would be a miscarriage of justice. [...]
![A Look Back To "Old" Jeff Bezos Talking About Losing Money](https://assets.realclear.com/images/64/647094_3_.jpeg)
Francis Agustin, BBC Before Amazon was the top player in the ecommerce space, it was Jeff Bezos's "famously unprofitable company", as he said in an exclusive 2000 BBC Newsnight interview. [...]
Roben Farzad, BusinessWeek September is that cruelest month for the stock market. It's the only month that has dropped on average since the Roaring Twenties. Come Monday night, when Wall [...]
Donald Lambro, Washington Times Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney has to do two things really well at his convention: Lay out in dramatic terms how bad the Obama economy is and [...]
Carla Fried, CNNMoney Income-starved investors looking to amp up their portfolios have been turning to foreign bonds -- for obvious reasons. The 4.2% payout on the average foreign [...]
Ezra Klein, WonkBlog I see that the Republican convention will feature a debt clock ticking away behind the speakers. It will also, as I understand it, consist entirely of speakers who [...]
R. Ponnuru, Bloomberg While the Romney and Obama camps have made increasingly bitter accusations about each otherâ??s plans for Medicare, a bipartisan consensus on entitlements has emerged [...]
Rick Newman, US News By now, everybody knows what's wrong with the economy: There aren't enough jobs, Europe is stuck in a financial quagmire and Washington is playing chicken with tax and [...]
Doug Schoen, Forbes It's a testament to how bad the American employment market has gotten that the most recent jobs report was met with applause. The Labor Department's July jobs figures [...]
Jason Ma, IBD Corporations are scaling back investment, hiring and inventories ahead of steep year-end tax hikes and spending cuts, the most concrete sign to date that uncertainty over the [...]
![One Winery Turned Smoke-Damaged Grapes Into Barbecue Sauce](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/wildfire-smoke.jpg?fit=1200,800)
Winemaking is a challenging art even under the best of circumstances. Under the most optimal climate and weather conditions, there’s still no guarantee that a batch of grapes will yield a vintage for the ages — or even a passable vintage. And there are plenty of variables that can further complicate matters, from frost to […] The post One Winery Turned Smoke-Damaged Grapes Into Barbecue Sauce appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![Would You Move to Tuscany For $32,000?](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Isola-di-Capraia-.jpg?fit=1200,800)
The Tuscan countryside includes some of the most glorious scenery in Europe — and helped to make the region the subject of countless tours, cookbooks and photographs over the years. And if you’ve ever thought about what it might be like to live in this part of the world, the Italian government may have just […] The post Would You Move to Tuscany For $32,000? appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![Influencers Are “Raising ’90s Kids.” What Does That Mean?](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/90s-kids.jpg?fit=1200,800)
Nineties nostalgia has dominated the 2020s. The TikTok generation discovered Friends during the pandemic; it’s hard to walk a city block these days without spotting oversized jeans or old sneaker silhouettes (Nike P-6000, New Balance 530, etc.), and “single-use” tech — vinyl records, cassette tapes, Game Boys, Tamagotchis, Polaroid cameras — continue to find favor […] The post Influencers Are “Raising ’90s Kids.” What Does That Mean? appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![Steven Soderbegh Revealed the Four Films He Wouldn’t Re-Edit](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/steven-soderbergh-2024.jpg?fit=1200,800)
For some filmmakers, a film is never quite finished — even when it’s initially released in theaters. George Lucas revisited Star Wars so that Greedo shot first, to the frustration of many viewers, while his peer Francis Ford Coppola made substantial changes to The Godfather Part III and The Cotton Club to greater critical acclaim. […] The post Steven Soderbegh Revealed the Four Films He Wouldn’t Re-Edit appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![RTA Delivers Streetwear With an Opinion](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/RTA-Hero.jpg?fit=1200,800)
There’s no denying that, after nearly a decade of the spotlight, streetwear has lost a bit of its sheen. (The crop of knock-off sweatsuits and cheap, ill-fitting basics trying to capitalize on the wave are in large part to blame.) Fashion guys have long since traded in their sweatshorts and boxy tees for jorts and…boxy […] The post RTA Delivers Streetwear With an Opinion appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![You Don’t Want to Miss the Frank and Oak Summer Sale](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/real-franky-hero.png?fit=1200,800)
We are officially in the throes of summer, which means that the days are hot, the nights are warm and they require you to be equipped with multiple outfit changes at the ready. From your morning workout to your ice-cold office desk to the patio and then to the bar with your friends — having […] The post You Don’t Want to Miss the Frank and Oak Summer Sale appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![This Distillery Dares to Ask: What If a Breakfast Sandwich Was Booze?](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/taylor-ham-sandwich.jpg?fit=1200,800)
If you’ve spent any time in New Jersey — or talking food with people from New Jersey — then you’ve probably encountered an age-old culinary discourse. I am, of course, talking about the “Is it pork roll or Taylor ham?” debate, which also has implications for where in the state you might find yourself. Whatever […] The post This Distillery Dares to Ask: What If a Breakfast Sandwich Was Booze? appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![Everything You Need for a Cooler, Less Sweaty Night of Sleep](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/Cool-Sleep-Hero.jpg?fit=1200,800)
July unofficially marks the beginning of sweaty season. After we get over the highly-anticipated, jovial first month of summer, we are left traveling through high temps and higher humidity and waking up in pools of our own sweat. Yes, this one’s for the hot sleepers among us: a list of the best products for cooler […] The post Everything You Need for a Cooler, Less Sweaty Night of Sleep appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![“The Bear” Backlash Was Inevitable. Here’s Why It’s Wrong.](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/thebearseason3-e1719797924158.jpeg?fit=1200,675)
Warning: this post contains spoilers for season 3 of The Bear. It’s a tale as old as time: something — anything! — becomes massively, near-universally popular, and eventually the naysayers come out of the woodwork to announce that actually it’s not that good, that it’s not worth the hype, that anyone who loves it must […] The post “The Bear” Backlash Was Inevitable. Here’s Why It’s Wrong. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![The Best Movies, TV and Music for July](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/Longlegs2.jpg?fit=1200,800)
Welcome to Culture Hound, InsideHook’s deep dive into the month’s most important cultural happenings, pop and otherwise (note: you can find our monthly book guide a little later this week). WATCH: Longlegs In pursuit of a serial killer named Longlegs, an FBI agent (Maika Monroe) uncovers a series of occult clues that she must solve […] The post The Best Movies, TV and Music for July appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![This Revered Calabrian Allium Should Have a Place at Your July Table](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GettyImages-1371817346.jpg?fit=1200,800)
Welcome to our summer produce series. Every week until the end of August, we’re highlighting the most in-season fruit or veggie of the moment, as handpicked by the experts at Natoora. You can learn more about the company and how they work with farmers in our first piece of the series. I admit that before […] The post This Revered Calabrian Allium Should Have a Place at Your July Table appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![The Extreme E Racing Series Is Shifting Gears to Hydrogen](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/extreme-h.jpg?fit=1200,800)
A little less than five years ago, a new racing series announced itself to the world. That name of that series was Extreme E, and it had an impressive pedigree — including that one of its founders also founded the Formula E racing circuit. And it had an enticing niche: taking electric vehicles to compete […] The post The Extreme E Racing Series Is Shifting Gears to Hydrogen appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![Department of Justice Reportedly Offers Boeing a Plea Deal](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/boeing-factory.jpg?fit=1200,800)
There’s been a lot of attention paid to airplane manufacturer Boeing this year after a series of high-profile issues with their planes — including a door plug failing spectacularly in the middle of a flight. It’s not the only issue the company has faced recently, which have also included issues with the slide on one […] The post Department of Justice Reportedly Offers Boeing a Plea Deal appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![What Does It Take to Keep a City’s E-Bike Fleet Running?](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ebikes.jpg?fit=1200,800)
Twenty years ago, bicycle shares were much less common in cities in the United States. Nowadays, they’re widespread — and a growing number of the bikes available there run on electricity. As an analysis from the National Association of City Transportation Officials from 2018 revealed, what was once limited to bicycles has grown to encompass […] The post What Does It Take to Keep a City’s E-Bike Fleet Running? appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![CDC Warns Americans of Increased Dengue Fever Risk](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/dengue-fever-fumigation.jpg?fit=1200,800)
There are plenty of reasons to be wary of mosquito bites, and near the top of that list is the risk of contracting dengue fever from such an interaction. The World Health Organization lists the symptoms of an infection as “high fever, headache, body aches, nausea, and rash” — and notes that in the most […] The post CDC Warns Americans of Increased Dengue Fever Risk appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![Are Wildfires Raising Homeowners Insurance Rates in California?](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/wildfires.jpg?fit=1200,800)
Natural disasters have a way of ratcheting up the cost of homeowners insurance. In Florida, the threat of hurricanes and flooding amidst rising sea levels has caused insurance rates for homeowners near the water to rise as well. On the other side of the country, something similar is playing out, albeit with a very different […] The post Are Wildfires Raising Homeowners Insurance Rates in California? appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![A Combined COVID-19 and Flu Shot Could Be Closer Than You Think](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/injection.jpg?fit=1200,800)
For the last few years, I’ve taken advantage of the fact that I can now get my annual flu shot and COVID-19 vaccine at the same time. There are a few good reasons for this — including reducing time in doctor’s offices and pharmacies and in getting side effects (if any are present) out of […] The post A Combined COVID-19 and Flu Shot Could Be Closer Than You Think appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![Museum at Center of Georgia O’Keeffe Deaccessioning Controversy Is Closing](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/georgia-okeeffe.jpg?fit=1200,800)
Beginning in 2020, casual observers of the art world found themselves thinking a lot more about the concept of deaccessioning. That was in part because certain museums were feeling the financial strain of the pandemic (one that’s ongoing for some) and needed to part ways with objects from their collection to stay afloat. There are […] The post Museum at Center of Georgia O’Keeffe Deaccessioning Controversy Is Closing appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![Amsterdam Is Dramatically Changing Its Approach to Cruise Ships](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/amsterdam-houses.jpg?fit=1200,800)
The early days of the pandemic may have seemed like a cautionary tale for people considering a cruise ship as their next vacation, and yet the industry appears to have rebounded dramatically. At the end of last year, Reuters cited plenty of evidence that 2024 would be a bigger year for the industry than 2023; […] The post Amsterdam Is Dramatically Changing Its Approach to Cruise Ships appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![Bill Maher and Ray Kurzweil Debated AI on a New “Real Time”](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/maher_june28.jpg?fit=1200,800)
“There’s nobody like you. I want people to understand that.” That was one of the ways in which Bill Maher introduced guest Ray Kurzweil to his audience. Kurzweil is best known for writing about the Singularity before it was a ubiquitous concept in tech circles. He has a new book out this year, The Singularity […] The post Bill Maher and Ray Kurzweil Debated AI on a New “Real Time” appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![Blog: Welcome Back To The Historiat!](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/655058_3_.jpg)
Lawrence C. Bostic III, RealClearHistory Hello, My Name Is Lawrence, And I Am a Historian. [...]
![Prehistoric Wolf Found Frozen in Siberia's Permafrost](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/655053_3_.jpg)
Mark Milligan, Heritage Daily Scientists from the MKAmmosov North-Eastern Federal University have found the preserved remains of a Pleistocene wolf in the Republic of Sakha, Russia. [...]
![Codename Nemo: The Hunt For Nazi U-Boats](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/655054_3_.jpg)
Blake Stilwell, Military.com By June 1944, Capt. Daniel Gallery and the escort carrier USS Guadalcanal were in the middle of their second hunter-killer mission. [...]
![Ancient Almonds Aid in Dating Shipwreck](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/655055_3_.jpg)
Taylor Nicioli, CNN A lone diver first laid eyes on the ancient Kyrenia shipwreck off the north coast of Cyprus nearly 60 years ago. But when archaeologists attempted to determine the exact [...]
![Harriet Tubman - The Spy](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/655057_3_.jpg)
David Christopher Kaufman, The New York Post Considering she will soon adorn America's $20 [...]
![Fisherman in Poland Discovers Mammoth Bone](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/655073_3_.jpg)
Sydney Borchers , Fox News A fisherman in Poland recently reeled in a large catch — but this is not your typical gills and fins nab. [...]
![History of British Elections](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/655074_3_.jpg)
Simon Schama, Financial Times If, as pundits claim, Thursday's election is done and dusted before the voters even get to the polling stations, is there a risk of the excitement turning into [...]
![7 Cunning Byzantine Tactics to Defeat a Medieval Army](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/655075_3_.jpg)
Staff, The Medievalists Discover ingenious ways to outsmart and defeat a medieval army without direct confrontation, as detailed in the 10th-century Byzantine military manual, the [...]
![11 Facts About Legendary Viking Warrior Ragnar Lothbrok](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/655076_3_.jpg)
Staff, Sky History The Norse sagas are filled with stories of legendary heroes, none more famous than the Viking king Ragnar Lothbrok. His exploits and epic deeds have echoed through the [...]
Aristos Georgiou, Newsweek Archaeologists have unearthed an intriguing 18th-century artifact in northern Michigan. The item in question, a brass trade ring, was found during an [...]
![The Life of Kościuszko: A 2-Continent Revolutionary](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/655090_3_.jpg)
James Keating, The Collector Tadeusz Kościuszko was a prominent military engineer who became a national hero in Poland and the United States, among other nations. This is his story. [...]
Michael Scanlon, SSRN This is a near-author's cut of an essay entitled "Odysseus Lost" that was published by Chronicles on January 26, 2024. The Chronicles version, which benefited f [...]
Andrew J. Bacevich, New York Times An implicit question haunts this illuminating and richly detailed memoir by Michael G. Vickers, the senior intelligence official at the center of [...]
Sean Durns, Washington Examiner "Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power," the American intellectual Henry Adams wrote in 1862, "and the human race commit suicide, [...]
Jonathan Jarry, McGill University Did Nazis love yoga? That is the provocative title of one chapter in the recently published book Conspirituality: How New Age [...]
Reuters History buffs will be able to stroll close to the spot where legend says Julius Caesar met his bloody end, when Rome authorities open a new walkway on the ancient site on [...]
Hannah Osborne, Live Science A giant predator that lived 240 million years ago was decapitated with a single, brutal bite from a deadlier creature, scientists have said. [...]
Christine Chung, New York Times A submersible craft carrying five people in the area of the Titanic wreck in the North Atlantic has been missing since Sunday, setting off a search and [...]
Agence France-Presse MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Uruguay will melt down a bronze eagle found on a sunken World War II-era German destroyer off its coast 13 years ago, and recast it as a dove [...]
There are five professions(1) but lots of occupations and trades lay claim to being the oldest one despite predating the concept by millennia.Farming is around 14,000 years old but a new study reveals one less-considered trade predates it by tens of thousands of years: fashion.Humans wore clothing prior to that, but fashion is a different animal skin. It is clothing for social and cultural purposes, marking the major shift from clothes as protection to clothes as an expression of identity. Paleolithic eyed needles are now known to be as old as 40,000 years, and with it came the evolution of dressing. read [...]
Time and again, I play a "good" blitz chess game. In blitz chess you have 5 minutes thinking for the totality of your game. This demands quick reasoning and a certain level of dexterity - with the mouse, if you are playing online as I usually do.My blitz rating on the chess.com site hovers around 2150-2200 elo points, which puts me at the level of a strong candidate master or something like that, which is more or less how I would describe myself. But time is of course running at a slower, but more unforgiving pace in my life, and [...]
In 1984, a court much farther to the left than today's is to the right made arguably its worst 'social justice living document' ruling - they found that an agency controlled by the president could create new regulations that act as laws if those regulations were in the agency's "mandate." All a president had to do was broaden an agency's mandate, or have a Congressional law written poorly, and anything was possible.read more [...]
New York makes a big show of banning natural gas and nuclear energy while preventing brownouts across Manhattan by buying natural gas from neighboring Pennsylvania.President Biden's EPA recently decided that not only should New York be allowed hypocrisy about the sources of its that even Russia-addicted Germany thought was laughable, he wanted Democratic states to be able to sue Republican ones for the emissions created by selling energy to the wealthy elites nearby. So California could sue Idaho and even states as far away as Utah because those states keep Governor Newsom from being the target of a recall vote [...]
Robert Zubrin, a great Aerospace Engineer and advocate for human space exploration, has a credible proposal to move the ISS to higher orbits around the Earth under its own power using electric propulsion. This would not be a fast process, but it would not need to be a fast process since it is a space station, not a spacecraft. Think of it this way, ISS is to space what an oil platform is to the sea. People don't realize that many of those aren't anchored to the seabed but float, and interface with equipment placed on the seabed below. They [...]
The National Center for Health Statistics shows that average life expectancy for American men in 2022 was down to 74.8 years, 5.4 years lower than American women.read more [...]
Last week, eco-terrorists attacked and destroyed a new optimized rice called Telemaco Ris8imo, using genetic engineering (assisted evolution techniques) so that it needs less fungicide. Rice is one of those rather ridiculous crops that western government subsidize and people who don't know anything about agriculture believe needs to be covered in water to grow. It is actually covered in water in Asia to keep it safe from...nature.(1) In many places, water takes energy and if we care about climate change, we want less energy pumping water or importing rice from China on emissions-belching ships. Science to the rescue. So scientists created a [...]
Suicide is the runaway leader in gun deaths in the United States and a new demography paper says more government control of the alcohol business might provide a solution for that, and homicides also.This was a statistical analysis, so only EXPLORATORY, but they correlate more restrictive alcohol laws with a reduction in specific states’ homicide rates. The authors at RAND used the Alcohol Policy Scale index, which measures state-year alcohol policy environments, higher is more social authoritarian, lower is more freedom, plus vital deaths data (total homicides, total suicides, firearm homicides, and firearm suicides) drawn from the National Vital Statistics [...]
Each year when air conditioners are needed, California has to ask EPA for permission to violate federal emissions standards and burn enough natural gas to keep the brown-outs that nearly got Governor Gavin Newsom recalled from happening again.read more [...]
Trial lawyers suing over a popular weedkiller saw six words they never want to read in a court document approving a motion to dismiss a study they consider vital to their future yacht payments: "Zhang’s meta-analysis is junk science."This is not just authoritative, it is humiliating.It doesn't end there. The court saw through their pay-to-publish scam and was immune to their time-honored technique of immediately having a bunch of other papers cite it to increase its impact factor and H-index.read more [...]
Yesterday I was in Oslo, where I was invited tro serve as the leading opposer in the Ph.D. defense of a student of Alex Read, who is a particle physicist and a member of the ATLAS collaboration. Although I have served in similar committees several times in the past, this turned out to be a special experience for me for a couple of reasons.read more [...]
There are lots of stories about the poor in America, and have been for decades. Smart demographers know that, like racism, if everyone is talking about The Poor, it's almost eliminated.One of the giant cracks in the communist dictatorship called the USSR last century was when the television program "60 Minutes" had a segment on poverty in America. It was designed to tug at the heartstrings of those with more money. The USSR ran it for their citizens but it actually backfired. Being in 'poverty' in America meant having a television and more living space than anyone not an elite [...]
If you tell me an old white person in America opposes nuclear power, I can tell you how they vote. I can also tell you with alarming accuracy what they think about lots of science, like food and medicine. They think natural gas is why climate change happens.The reality is that climate change happened due to...them. Democrats gutted nuclear energy in America 30 years ago. Democrats cheered when Senator John Kerry and President Bill Clinton declared that any nuclear energy research could be a nuclear bomb. This was the capstone of a 30-year effort to undermine nuclear power in America, [...]
Austrian Environment Minister Leonore Gewessler took one for the environmental team to push through a new environmental bill that few want.If there is one positive thing that Russia invading Ukraine accomplished, it's forcing Europeans to stop being hypocrites about where their food and energy really derives. It is not Europe, and has not been since they started shutting off coal plants and nuclear energy and claimed solar and wind only needed political will to take over.(1) And that Russian organic food imports were anything more than a placebo in sticker form.(2)read more [...]
A news article says that 2024 fact checkers are having a hard time keeping up with all of the disinformation and misinformation surrounding the American presidential election. While progressive activists want to allege it's only by the right-wing, that isn't true at all.(1) read more [...]
There is no question that American academia is driven more by politics and cultural agendas than being trusted guides for the public, and a new paper by the European Society of Medicine shows that militancy is a key reason why countries which could benefit the most from Golden Rice are terrified of science.Golden Rice, fortified with β-carotene that becomes vitamin A in the body, should be prized by progressives who mask their hatred of science behind "distrust" of corporations, because it has no corporate control. It is entirely public domain, created by academics to help the world.read more [...]
Carbon capture and storage (CCS), the process of separating, treating and transporting carbon dioxide (COread more [...]
It's only psychology surveys so take that for what it's worth but the authors of a new questionnaire with a suspect confidence interval claim millennials are so whiny they say they can't even have a midlife crisis like previous generations.They can't afford it.read more [...]
Harvard has found the perfect way to get old liberals to stop yelling at their young progressives due the school's antisemitism, a chronic reality they didn't want exposed in an election year: claim that aliens, cryptoterrestrials, are living in a secret base on the moon. With dinosaurs.read more [...]
What do you get when you combine food diaries of suspect reliability with an agenda against Big Food?A prominent epidemiologist. No methodology is deemed too shoddy to manufacture "statistical significance" because few in food epidemiology seem to recognize how useless that is as a barometer for "legitimate result."read more [...]
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