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!['Torn 20' Voters Will Decide if Trump or Harris Prevails](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/659571_3_.jpeg)
With two months to Election Day, 8% of likely voters are either undecided or will select a 3rd party candidate in November. [...]
![How Trump Is Going To Win in 2024](https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/662251_3_.jpeg)
Trump can cite more accomplishments from a successful first term than Harris, who despite her regret and reset, represents four more years of the present chaos and crisis. [...]
![Kamala Harris' Debate Conundrum](https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/661056_3_.jpeg)
When Kamala Harris walks onto the debate stage at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia next week, her toughest opponent [...]
![Debate Questions Kamala Harris Must Be Asked](https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/662015_3_.jpeg)
After six weeks of completely hiding from the media, Kamala Harris finally appeared, with the safety valve of her running mate, in a pre-recorded, brief, and totally friendly interview with Dana Bash of CNN. [...]
![Quiet War Against Press Freedom Could Come to US](https://assets.realclear.com/images/50/502807_3_.jpg)
Some foreign leaders have ruthlessly curtailed journalism. U.S. politicians could draw from their playbook. [...]
![The Media Lies Add Up](https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/662231_3_.jpeg)
The public is exhausted after a decade of chronic untruth from the left wing and its media. [...]
![McCormick Outlines 'Playbook' in Tight PA Senate Race](https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/662246_3_.jpeg)
With August in the rear-view mirror, Dave McCormick admits he never really made much of "brat summer," the amorphous Gen Z meme that no one can exactly define but that Vice President Kamala Harris has adopted while in pursuit of younger voters. [...]
![Can Kamala Harris Win Back the Arab American Vote?](https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/662252_3_.jpeg)
In the aftermath of the October attacks in Israel, the disappointment of Arab Americans with President Biden's administration continues with no end in sight. If Kamala Harris doesn't show a readiness to depart from her predecessor's stances, she could see herself outvoted in the swing states of Michigan and Ohio come November. [...]
![Mayors Can Combat Campus Unrest This School Year](https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/662208_3_.jpeg)
As a Jewish parent whose daughter graduated from college in May, I witnessed firsthand the violent anti-Israel demonstrations and commencement cancellations that plagued campuses last academic year. While students are excited for their return this fall, I'm gripped by a sense of dread, fearing a repeat - or worse - of last year's chaos. [...]
![Senate Dem Candidates Face Anti-Catholic Bigotry TV Spots](https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/660896_3_.jpeg)
Frontiers of Freedom Action is launching a new ad campaign targeting Ruben Gallego highlighting his support for anti-Catholic policies. [...]
An unsealed DOJ indictment seems to implicate Tenet Media in Russian propaganda. [...]
The truth is, Russia isn't interfering in the 2024 election nearly as much as Biden's FBI and DOJ are right now. [...]
The coverup of Hunter's tax crimes probably changed the result of the 2020 presidential election and perhaps tampered with 2022 congressional election results. [...]
![Trump Can Make America Healthy Again](https://assets.realclear.com/images/65/657626_3_.jpeg)
Chronic diseases have reached crisis proportions, and Kamala Harris seems uninterested in the issue. [...]
It's easy enough for Democrats to laugh off Kennedy's comments.A Instead, they should make a serious play for his voters. [...]
In yet another shakeup for CNN, the troubled network with sinking ratings and crumbling credibility rehired disinformation spreader Brian Stelter, who had previously been fired for being even more embarrassing to the company than its legal analyst and Zoom masturbator Jeffrey Toobin. For decades, the network had been viewed as a typical leftist media outlet, [...]
Israeli forces withdrew after a deadly 10-day raid in a flashpoint city in the occupied West Bank Friday, witnesses said, as key ally Germany warned against treating the territory like Gaza.There was no official confirmation that Israel's military had withdrawn from Jenin, a bastion of Palestinian armed groups, but AFP journalists reported residents returning home.The pull-out came with Israel at loggerheads with its main ally the United States over talks aimed at forging a truce in the Gaza war, now nearly in its 12th month. [...]
Surging anti-Semitism since Hamas's October 7 attack sparked the war in Gaza recalls the run-up to World War II, with fear spreading through Jewish communities worldwide, top European and US envoys warned this week."We have seen a tsunami of anti-Semitism really rolling across Europe and the globe," said Katharina von Schnurbein, the European Commission's coordinator on combating anti-Semitism and fostering Jewish life. [...]
Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was killed while taking part in a march against the expansion of settlements in the West Bank. [...]
The Emirates is the only Gulf country with a nuclear power program, though neighboring Saudi Arabia also has atomic power ambitions. [...]
The Emirates is the only Gulf country with a nuclear power program, though neighboring Saudi Arabia also has atomic power ambitions. [...]
The Emirates is the only Gulf country with a nuclear power program, though neighboring Saudi Arabia also has atomic power ambitions. [...]
The Emirates is the only Gulf country with a nuclear power program, though neighboring Saudi Arabia also has atomic power ambitions. [...]
Israeli forces appeared to be winding down a deadly 10-day raid in a flashpoint city in the occupied West Bank on Friday, as key ally Germany warned against treating the territory like Gaza.There was no official confirmation from the Israeli military that it had withdrawn from Jenin, a bastion of Palestinian armed groups, but AFP journalists reported residents returning to the city following the fighting. [...]
With talks between Israel and Hamas stalled, the Biden administration hopes to delink the Gaza war from the Lebanese border escalation, but the Israeli prime minister may be more focused on the US presidential election. [...]
The 2024 northern summer saw the highest global temperatures on record, beating 2023's high and making this year likely Earth's hottest ever recorded, the EU's climate monitor said Friday.The data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service followed a season of heatwaves around the world that scientists said were intensified by human-driven climate change.Extreme weather struck around the globe -- with some 1,300 dead during extreme heat at the hajj in Mecca, intense heat testing India's economy and electric system, and wildfire raging in parts of the western United States. [...]
Bare feet pressed against the rough trunk of a palm tree, his back supported by a metal and fabric harness, Ali Abed begins the climb to the dates above.In Iraq, the date palm and its bounty are national icons, but they are being battered by drought.Once known as the country of "30 million palm trees", Iraq's ancient date-growing culture had already suffered from upheaval, especially during the 1980-88 war with Iran, before climate change became a major threat. [...]
Bahrain’s human rights record has been widely criticized, despite recent pardons, and the latest move follows efforts to repair relations with Iran. [...]
Bahrain’s human rights record has been widely criticized, despite recent pardons, and the latest move follows efforts to repair relations with Iran. [...]
Bahrain’s human rights record has been widely criticized, despite recent pardons, and the latest move follows efforts to repair relations with Iran. [...]
Bahrain’s human rights record has been widely criticized, despite recent pardons, and the latest move follows efforts to repair relations with Iran. [...]
A new report by the International Crisis Group says Israeli settler attacks since the Gaza war have resulted in 21 deaths of Palestinians and 643 injuries, with the destruction of nearly 23,000 Palestinian-owned trees. [...]
A new report by the International Crisis Group says Israeli settler attacks since the Gaza war have resulted in 21 deaths of Palestinians and 643 injuries, with the destruction of nearly 23,000 Palestinian-owned trees. [...]
A new report by the International Crisis Group says Israeli settler attacks since the Gaza war have resulted in 21 deaths of Palestinians and 643 injuries, with the destruction of nearly 23,000 Palestinian-owned trees. [...]
The recent spike in Turkish attacks comes at an especially critical time as Iraq's Kurdistan Region prepares to hold long-delayed parliamentary elections. [...]
Control of a nearly nine-mile border route in the southern Gaza Strip has emerged as a stumbling block in the talks over a potential cease-fire and hostage agreement. [...]
![Why Are Older American Workers Increasingly Staying On Job?](https://assets.realclear.com/images/64/640515_3_.jpeg)
Joel Mathis, Week And what does it mean for younger workers? [...]
![The Great Fiduciary Breach Machines Get Their Comeuppance](https://assets.realclear.com/images/55/557539_3_.jpeg)
Scott Shepard, RCM The ESG (standing for "environmental, social and governance" - no noun included to maximize the duplicity!) movement is both appalling and appallingly powerful. Consider: [...]
![The Jobs Report Will Likely Determine Size of Fed's Rate Cut](https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/661159_3_.jpeg)
Alicia Wallace, CNN The US economy appears to be on a knife's edge, and Friday's jobs report will be the deciding factor as to the next direction. [...]
![Biden Confesses To Big, Unreported On Jobs Falsehood](https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/662225_3_.jpg)
Editorial, Issues & Insights You'd never know any of this if you relied on the mainstream press for news. [...]
![Where Candidates Stand On Retirement](https://assets.realclear.com/images/64/647219_3_.jpeg)
Maryalene LaPonsie, U.S. News & World Report While Harris and Trump both say they support Social Security and Medicare, they have been short on specifics. [...]
![Book Review: Anya Gillinson's Excellent 'Dreaming In Russian'](https://assets.realclear.com/images/61/617147_3_.jpeg)
John Tamny, RCM "Think about your most embarrassing moment. Then multiply it many times. That's what it feels like when your clients are losing money." The latter is a paraphrase of Shelwyn [...]
![The Culprits If a Too Big To Fail National Football League, Fails](https://assets.realclear.com/images/62/624378_3_.jpeg)
Will Leitch, MSNBC The NFL is having a run of strength, success and power, to the point that it feels like nothing can touch it. But the issues that had everyone worried still exist. [...]
![With Kamala In Favor, Hochul Should Let NY Frack](https://assets.realclear.com/images/64/646107_3_.jpg)
Howard Husock, New York Post Lifting the state's ban on development of its clean-burning natural gas reserves would revive the moribund economy of upstate New York, Hochul's own home region. [...]
![Bacon Prices, and the Windmills of Trump's Mind](https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/662160_3_.jpg)
Paul Krugman, The New York Times Lately I've become obsessed with bacon — or, more accurately, with Donald Trump's obsession with the price of bacon, which has long been his [...]
![Kamala Harris's Tax on Unrealized Gains Is Historically Dumb](https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/662056_3_.jpg)
Derek Hunter, The Hill I see a lot of people on Twitter desperately trying to defend the insane, suicidal tax proposed by Vice President [...]
![Musk, Zuckerberg, and Our Government Censors](https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/662056_3_.jpg)
Abigail Shrier, Manhattan Institute What are the chances that a President Kamala Harris would resist pressuring social media companies into censorship? Based on her record: Not great. When [...]
![The Many Things That "I'm Mad As Hell" About](https://assets.realclear.com/images/62/621278_3_.jpeg)
Zachary Karabell, The Edgy Optimist That's right. Surprised? The Edgy Optimist? Mad as hell? Let me tell you why. [...]
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 [...]
![BMW’s Toyota Partnership Is the Latest Sign of Hydrogen’s Momentum](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/bmw-toyota.jpg?fit=1200,800)
What does 2028 have in store for us? The Los Angeles Olympics, for one thing, and the Athletics will begin playing in Las Vegas as well. In the automotive world, two major automakers are set to release an ambitious joint offering: specifically, a hydrogen-fuel vehicle from BMW and Toyota. It’ll be the first hydrogen fuel […] The post BMW’s Toyota Partnership Is the Latest Sign of Hydrogen’s Momentum appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![The Art of Bourbon 2024 Is the Year’s Best Whiskey Auction](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Pappy.jpg?fit=1200,800)
Extremely rare bottles of Michter’s, Pappy, Old Forester and more highlight the Art of Bourbon 2024, an annual auction to benefit Louisville’s Speed Art Museum. Now in its seventh year, the event is curated by whiskey expert Fred Minnick. This year, highlights include six bottles of Pappy Van Winkle signed exclusively by Julian Van Winkle […] The post The Art of Bourbon 2024 Is the Year’s Best Whiskey Auction appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![A Pilgrimage to the Promised Land of Kiteboarding](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Windsuring-hero1.jpg?fit=1200,800)
The water beneath my kiteboard looks like glass as I arc through a slick — one of dozens of creek-like fingers that wend through acres of marsh grass on the sound-side of North Carolina’s Hatteras Island. This particular slick is around 20 feet wide, not the narrowest by a long shot but one that leaves […] The post A Pilgrimage to the Promised Land of Kiteboarding appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![Nike’s Retros Are on the Rebound. The Hottest One Just Hit Sale.](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Nike-Cortez-Hero.jpg?fit=1200,800)
The footwear market is, in a word, weird. Sneakers are supposedly dead, but also, not really — after all, you can’t wear loafers all the time, and given the unseasonably warm weather, boots are currently off the table. The Samba wave is over, GATs are $300 too expensive, JJJJound Asics are impossible to track down. […] The post Nike’s Retros Are on the Rebound. The Hottest One Just Hit Sale. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![The Fitness Secrets of Eric Leija, Kettlebell Master](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/kettle1.jpg?fit=1200,800)
Eric Leija was with UFC fighter Roger Huerta and his brother Juan Leija the first day he picked up a kettlebell. The Texas native was just a teenager at the time, with aspirations of competing professionally in mixed martial arts, and all the guys who were beating him on the mat were using bells during […] The post The Fitness Secrets of Eric Leija, Kettlebell Master appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![Learn to Fly Fish at One of These 5 Wilderness Hotels](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Dunton-River-Camp-1.png?fit=1200,800)
When it comes to choosing where to travel during the all-too-fleeting months of summer, chances are high that your mind goes straight to the balmy coast of some expansive body of water. The call of the Atlantic, Pacific, Mediterranean and Caribbean, along with their countless beaches and waterfront hotels, are difficult to resist on account […] The post Learn to Fly Fish at One of These 5 Wilderness Hotels appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![How to Plan the Perfect Trip to Tokyo With Young Kids](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Tokyo-With-Kids.png?fit=1200,800)
For some people, a trip to Japan with a toddler and an infant might not sound supremely appealing. But having just done it, I can confidently say that Tokyo is a terrific place to bring young kids. First off, it’s impeccably clean, well-organized and easy-to-navigate on foot (it’s ranked the sixth most walkable city in […] The post How to Plan the Perfect Trip to Tokyo With Young Kids appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![Three Family-Run Coffee Farms to Visit in Salento, Colombia](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Valle-de-Cocora.png?fit=1200,800)
Somewhere south of Bogota, about halfway between Granada and Giradot, the mountains opened up from the mist. I left the cool streets of Chico Norte, Bogota’s upscale jewel, in search of a slower pace of life. For more than a year, I had been exploring this side of the Andes mountains, eager to experience the […] The post Three Family-Run Coffee Farms to Visit in Salento, Colombia appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![The Best Oxford Shirts for Men, Because What Else Would You Wear?](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/OCBD-Hero.jpg?fit=1200,800)
Chances are, if you were to poll every guy who’s even vaguely familiar with the r/mfa Subreddit on the most essential of the menswear essentials (the…essential-ist?), you’d get one of about four answers. A solid pair of white sneakers, a navy blazer that actually fits, a trusted pair of jeans, or, our personal favorite, an […] The post The Best Oxford Shirts for Men, Because What Else Would You Wear? appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![On’s Last-Season Sale Is Like Cloud Watching, But for Your Feet](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/On-Running-Sale.jpg?fit=1200,800)
The occasional chill in the air. The return of the PSL. That’s right, it’s officially fall marathon season. Naturally, the only way to celebrate the changing of the seasons — or a serious uptick in your weekly mileage — is to snag a new pair of cushy trainers, preferably from the mass of killer silos […] The post On’s Last-Season Sale Is Like Cloud Watching, But for Your Feet appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![Beer’s Least Sexy Ingredient May Be Its Most Important](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/beer-yeast-1500x1000-opt7.jpg?fit=1200,800)
Dr. Frankenstein called forth lightning to bring his monster to life. Brewers call forth yeast. Perhaps more than any other ingredient, the unicellular fungus breathes life into a beer. It also plays a key role in determining the taste on your tongue. Unfortunately, it stays largely behind the scenes, ceding the spotlight — especially on […] The post Beer’s Least Sexy Ingredient May Be Its Most Important appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![Dierks Bentley’s New Bourbon Could Be a Hit](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Dierks-Bentley.jpg?fit=1200,800)
“Ain’t enough bourbon in Kentucky for me to forget you.” That’s a teary-eyed line from country music superstar Dierks Bentley’s 2013 song “Bourbon in Kentucky,” but the sad sentiment can now be challenged, as Bentley just released his own bourbon (and can probably make enough of it to get over any situation). Called Row 94, […] The post Dierks Bentley’s New Bourbon Could Be a Hit appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![How to Build a Lifelong Relationship With Live Music](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Book_Mockup_LIVE.jpg?fit=1200,800)
When was the last time you saw live music? It doesn’t matter if it was an arena show or an experimental artist in a tiny venue; what matters is that you were there taking it all in. It isn’t all that strange to see less live music as you get older: work and family can […] The post How to Build a Lifelong Relationship With Live Music appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![Marilyn, Brando, McQueen: Inside the Star-Studded Archives of “Life”](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Life_Mag-3.jpg?fit=1200,800)
This article was featured in the InsideHook newsletter. Sign up now. The post Marilyn, Brando, McQueen: Inside the Star-Studded Archives of “Life” appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![An Ode to the Cobra’s Fang, Tiki’s Most Interesting Cocktail](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/cobras-fang-cocktail-at-paradise-lost.jpg?fit=1200,800)
The first time I walked into Paradise Lost, I knew what I was going to order before I sat down. I’d been anticipating my visit to the tiki bar all week, and the first time I looked at the menu, my eyes zoned in on one drink and one drink only: the Cobra’s Fang. Although […] The post An Ode to the Cobra’s Fang, Tiki’s Most Interesting Cocktail appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![The 14 Best Watches of the Past Month](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/August2024Watches3-e1725389320218.png?fit=1131,800)
Typically, it’s spring and early fall that provide the most horological heat, with Watches & Wonders Geneva offering a slew of new releases in March and April, followed months later by a busy third quarter full of compelling drops. But Geneva Watch Days, a relatively new trade show, now takes place at the end of […] The post The 14 Best Watches of the Past Month appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![The 10 Books You Should Be Reading This September](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/1_Sept_Books-hero.jpg?fit=1200,800)
What do your fall reading plans look like? There’s a lot to be said for beach reads or the doorstoppers you might hole up with during the winter months, but finding the right book for fall is a bit more complicated. For our September recommendations, we’ve offered a wide variety of styles and stories, from […] The post The 10 Books You Should Be Reading This September appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![American Tennis Star Taylor Fritz Is Ready for Prime Time](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/GettyImages-2169769881.jpg?fit=1200,800)
Nearly ten years on from his pro debut, Taylor Fritz is proving that he might just be America’s next great tennis hope after all. The 26-year-old San Diego native is currently playing some of the best tennis of his life, earning a number twelve in the world ranking and an Olympic bronze on the back […] The post American Tennis Star Taylor Fritz Is Ready for Prime Time appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![I Found the Antidote to American Polarization at the Minnesota State Fair](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/minnesota-state-fair-2024.jpg?fit=1200,800)
Sitting in section E, row 27, seat 5 of the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand on Friday night, I saw a more diverse range of Minnesotans than I normally see in a month. I’m not talking about racial diversity, as Matchbox Twenty was headlining, and you and I and everyone knows the ‘90s nostalgia act brings […] The post I Found the Antidote to American Polarization at the Minnesota State Fair appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
![InsideCart: What Our Editors Bought in August](https://www.insidehook.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/InsideCart.jpg?fit=1200,800)
Welcome to InsideCart, your sneak peek into what we, the discerning and ultra-picky editors of InsideHook, are adding to our own shopping carts each month. Consider it your monthly insight into all things cutting-edge (or charmingly vintage) from your favorite cohort of taste-making product freaks. Last month: a high-voltage portable charger from BioLite, state fair-coded […] The post InsideCart: What Our Editors Bought in August appeared first on InsideHook. [...]
Sasha Issenberg, Smithsonian Mag An unlikely duo exposed political corruption in Terre Haute, Indiana, in 1914—and set a new precedent for fair voting across the country. [...]
Frank Jacobs, Big Think "The Big Map of Who Lived When" shows the lifespans of famous figures — from Eminem all the way back to Genghis Khan. [...]
![Food & History of the American South](https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/662138_3_.jpeg)
Lisa Mullins & Karyn Miller-Medzon, WBUR The book offers a history of the ingredients or a recipe's connection to the Civil Rights Movement — like Zephyr White's pecan pie, which might have [...]
Staff, HistoryMaps Empire of Gold: The Medici Banking System. [...]
![The Troubling History Behind J.D. Vance's Style of Rhetoric](https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/662142_3_.jpeg)
Joshua Howard, Time For decades, conservatives like Vance have criticized welfare programs under the guise of defending the nuclear family. [...]
![The Overarching and Galvanizing Ideal](https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/662190_3_.jpg)
Ciara Shannon, Jack Miller Center JMC's Elliott Drago sat down with JMC Network Scholar George Nash to discuss conservatism, Herbert Hoover, and the American theme of freedom. [...]
![Canada's Last Veteran of the Spanish Civil War](https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/662193_3_.jpg)
Alex Bowers, Legion Magazine What began beside a family cabin in Sudbury, Ont., appeared to be ending against the bullet-ridden wall of a faraway Spanish farmhouse. Jules Paivio, a 20-year-old [...]
![From Sicily to New York: A Brief History of the Mafia](https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/662195_3_.jpg)
Ross Kemp, Sky History Learn how the Mafia formed in the 19th century and how it spread from Sicily to New York City and beyond [...]
![The Revolution Could Have Started Here](https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/662196_3_.jpeg)
Bob Thompson, AMERICAN HERITAGE At a curious stone tower in Somerville, Massachusetts, panic in 1774 could have sparked a war seven months before Lexington and Concord entered the history books. [...]
![Operation Dragoon: The Champagne Campaign](https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/662198_3_.jpg)
S. Hankinson, Heritage Foundation On August 15, 1944, a vast Allied fleet stood off the coast of France. In the dark hours of the morning, thousands of American and British airborne troops [...]
![Drought Dries Up Lake to Reveal Sunken Village](https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/662202_3_.jpg)
Gabriela Pomeroy, BBC News It is only the second time the village's ruins have been visible since it was abandoned decades ago. [...]
![How HIV/AIDS Got Its Name](https://assets.realclear.com/images/66/662203_3_.jpg)
Anthony Petro, The Conversation The nascent LGBTQ+ rights movement and the Christian right each strongly shaped the early years of HIV/AIDS, a historian explains. [...]
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 [...]
I will start this brief post with a disclaimer - I am not a nuclear physicist (rather, I am a lesser being, a sub-nuclear physicist). Jokes aside, my understanding and knowledge of the dynamics of high-energy nucleus-nucleus collisions and the phases of matter that can exist at those very high densities and temperatures is overall quite poor. read more [...]
There are about 3X as many white women as black in the US but white women get 8X as much for donated eggs and Diane M. Tober in "Eggonomics" suggests wealthy people looking for specific traits has gotten to the point of being eugenics.read more [...]
The Biden administration is in its waning days, but he is not letting up on his breathtaking levels of social authoritarianism. It's not bad enough that the average age of the young people who put men on the moon and World War II are no longer adult enough to be off mommy's health insurance, he has now declared that if they buy pipe tobacco they are at risk for cancer. Or becoming a hobbit.So if you are under age 30, get ready to show ID. It is federal law and one more thing store clerks have to obey government about.read [...]
One way to groom people into a social authoritarian, centralized government mindset is to keep them in a panic about everything. Then you give everyone a diagnosis and tell them it's not their fault. Using his agencies, President Biden has done a lot to erode confidence in government science and health. He bizarrely tried to use CDC to create nationwide rent control, he got EPA epidemiologists to hijack ponds on family farms under the pretense that they were "navigable waters of the United States", the list goes on.read more [...]
Tom Girardi is one of the lawyers who shot to prominence after they got California utility PG&E to issue a shocking settlement in a case where it was alleged that hexavalent chromium was causing diseases in Hinckley, California.Where were the bodies? They didn't exist, according to science, and history has shown it to be a hoax. There are no more cases of cancer, disease, or anything else. Like President Biden claiming a "cancer alley" in, unsurprisingly, a state that votes Republican, it just exploited the average to get a jury to side against a company.read more [...]
![California Claims 100 Days Of 100% Renewable Energy - Here's The Truth](https://www.science20.com/files/images/renewable_energy_share_has_not_gone_up.jpg)
California activists are cheering a new report that claims for 100 days, the state was entirely powered by alternative energy and therefore solar and wind are ready to rule.This is a puzzle when California has America's most expensive electricity costs and people statewide are claiming about a 100% increase in electricity costs over the last 8 years and $500 bills last month.The details tell the three truths that paid activists for the solar and wind industry omit. read more [...]
American automobile companies have been dealing with government regulations for a hundred years so they know to go with the high-publicity political flow and then quietly fix the issues later.(1) During the housing bubble of 2008, Ford went to Congress and agreed car companies absolutely needed a bailout.Then they didn't take it while competitors did, and were suddenly stuck with caving in to government-enabled union demands to have janitors make $50 an hour while Ford stock took off. They didn't have bureaucrats wanting to sign off on every decision the way General Motors did.read more [...]
Progressives are concerned that some US states have adopted abortion cut-off dates equal to those of France, which only raised it to 14 weeks in 2022. CDC shows American births are dropping so low that the Biden administration may need to start subsidizing the pro-life movement.read more [...]
There is now enough of data related to Germany lurching to the anti-science left this decade, both in food and energy, that is is easy to see why other companies should stop making the same mistake.Solar and wind not only don't work, they can't work as long as old technology is subsidized. It prevents better technology from being developed because that is not where the easy government money is.read more [...]
American environmentalists and the solar and wind industries propped up by taxes on poor people love to talk about how much their business has increased.It certainly has. Mandates and subsidies will do that. What those cannot do is make a meaningful difference. The world has spent $4 trillion on solar and wind subsidies and conventional energy usage has only declined about 0.1%. Yet for that same $4 trillion we could've powered enough homes and businesses that climate change would be like Y2K - a conspiracy some claim was never going to happen because it was prevented.read more [...]
Mexican farmers want to use more science in agriculture for two reasons. First, they don't trust the government officials they know are colluding with activists opposing science. Their country has vast oil reserves during record high prices and the industry is controlled by the government and still loses money.Mexican farmers know how to grow food, the last thing they want are urban activists and bureaucrats doing to food what they do to energy.The second is that they know science is why America can export to Mexico and China cheaper than countries with low labor costs can grow it.read more [...]
I am presently in Cairns, sitting in a parallel session of the "Quark Confinement and the Hadron Spectrum" conference, where I am convening a session on Statistical Methods for Physics Analysis in the XXI Century, giving a talk on the optimization of the SWGO experiment, and playing the piano at a concert for the conference, in addition of course to visiting the area. Anyway, all of the above is too much information to you, as this post is about something else.read more [...]
The World Health Organisation, the last major body to accept that COVID-19 was a pandemic, is out in front extending its highest emergency level over, of all things, monkeypox.We now know WHO held off on declaring COVID-19 an emergency because former President Donald Trump said it was an emergency and we should cut travel from China. Then he instructed FDA to prepare emergency use authorization standards for a vaccine they believed the private sector could create fast if government got out of the way.(1) read more [...]
Mars is no vacation paradise. The temperatures fluctuate dramatically and average minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit. The surface is red dust punctuated by craters, canyons, and volcanoes. On the plus side, the atmosphere is extremely thin, comprising only about 1% of the density of Earth’s, and gravity is 60 percent lower, so you can finally dunk a basketball.With all of those challenges, Martian landers have still been able capture wind measurements — some gauging the cooling rate of heated materials when winds blow over them, others using cameras to image “tell-tales” that blow in the wind. Both anemometric methods have yielded [...]
Astrology is one of those things that makes no sense to literate people. The position of stars a billion light-years away determined your personality, but if you are in the eastern world that personality could be completely different than if you were born 2000 miles west? See: I was a Virgo this morning, now I am a Leo! I totally feel different.read more [...]
After Fast Track consideration, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the neffy epinephrine nasal spray for emergency treatment of allergic reactions and anaphylaxis, initially for those who weigh at least about 66 pounds). read more [...]
Alcohol is the best-marketed carcinogen out there. Cigarettes and obesity only wish they were able to devote the money to positive imaging that alcohol, one of the top three lifestyle killers, receives. Instead, governments devote billions to education and awareness of those two while the only tepid warning about alcohol is not to drive after you roll the dice on cancer.When it comes to BPA, PFAS, or weedkillers, government epidemiologists say any presence should be considered pathological but say nothing at all about alcohol use despite it being scientifically shown, unlike most epidemiology, and addictive.read more [...]
Last week I traveled from Venice to Tokyo through Zurich, and during the flights I could do some more tests of the RadiaCode 103 - the nice spectrometer for gamma radiation I have been playing with as of late (for a couple of earlier posts and tests see here and here).read more [...]
If you ever get the chance to visit Turkey, I encourage you to do so. Like Civil War battlefields in the southern US, you can trip and stumble across something old - except in the case of Turkey it could be 2,000 years old.Some sites are archaeological research and you can't just wander around like you can in Cappadocia. That is the case with the Göbekli Tepe temples in southern Turkey. It was inhabited in neolithic times and is ground zero in the culture wars over whether agriculture begat civilization or the other way around. Archaeological evidence shows they processed [...]
Environmentalists prey on the poor, which ironically harms the poor the most because they are most impacted by high-cost foods like the kind made using the organic process of companies that fund environmentalists to undermine competitors.Mexico has many problems, and they are nearly all caused because people with money control too much of government. It's a country deep in oil, with a government monopoly on oil, that still somehow manages to lose money on oil during record oil prices. read more [...]
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