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Tuesday, April 1st on the RealClearPolitics Podcast:00:00 Immigration Turbulence for Trump 14:30 Comedian Axed from White House Correspondents' Dinner21:30 C [...]

Since last November, Democrats have struggled to find a strategy, message and messenger. Trump's executive-power blitz has only added to party frustration that they lack the legislative leverage with which to counter it. [...]

On Friday, Dr. Peter Marks announced his resignation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as Director of CEBR (Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research) citing differences with Health [...]

One of the most important - and difficult - roles of government is to craft a budget rooted in reality, in which spending is aligned with revenue. When I took office as governor of New Jer [...]

A judge kicked Marine Le Pen out of France's next presidential election. It mirrors what Democrats dream of doing here. [...]

The Left's splintering violence threatens a veto over democratic power. [...]

The sanctions target several individuals based in Russia accused of assisting Houthi official Sa’id al-Jamal, who has been under US sanctions since 2021. [...]

The sanctions target several individuals based in Russia accused of assisting Houthi official Sa’id al-Jamal, who has been under US sanctions since 2021. [...]

Unlike X, which has suspended social media accounts at the request of the Turkish government, Meta says it has faced heavy fines in Turkey for refusing to do so. [...]

Unlike X, which has suspended social media accounts at the request of the Turkish government, Meta says it has faced heavy fines in Turkey for refusing to do so. [...]

The Sudanese government accused the Rapid Support Forces of looting and destroying cultural heritage sites, including the Sudan National Museum, during their occupation of Khartoum, calling the actions war crimes and pledging to work with UNESCO and Interpol to recover stolen artifacts. [...]

The Sudanese government accused the Rapid Support Forces of looting and destroying cultural heritage sites, including the Sudan National Museum, during their occupation of Khartoum, calling the actions war crimes and pledging to work with UNESCO and Interpol to recover stolen artifacts. [...]

The Israeli army said it targeted Hamas militants in a strike on a UN building in Jabalia refugee camp Wednesday that Gaza's civil defence agency said killed 19 people, nine of them children.The army said in a statement that it struck the militants "inside a command and control centre that was being used for coordinating terrorist activity". It separately confirmed to AFP the building housed a UN clinic.Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said there were also dozens of people wounded in the strike which "targeted an UNRWA building housing a medical clinic". [...]

At an industrial bakery in war-ravaged Gaza City, a conveyor belt that once churned out thousands of pitta breads every day has come to a standstill.The Families Bakery is one of about two dozen supported by the World Food Programme (WFP) that have halted production in recent days due to flour and fuel shortages resulting from an Israeli blockade."All 25 WFP-supported bakeries in Gaza have shut down due to lack of fuel and flour," the UN agency said in a statement on Tuesday, adding that it would "distribute its last food parcels in the next two days". [...]

Kimberlee Josephson, Am. Institute for Economic Research Preferential trade terms, like other non-tariff barriers, distort markets and shackle economic growth. [...]

Charles Sauer, RCM In sports, a little [...]

Jessica Walrack, U.S. News & World Report Tax credits reduce tax liability dollar for dollar, while tax deductions reduce taxable income. [...]

Terrence Keeley, RealClearPolitics [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Val Kilmer was difficult. This was the mid-’90s consensus for frequent readers of Hollywood trade mags and their mainstream buddy Entertainment Weekly – and at the peak of Kilmer’s Hollywood career, no less. The actor, who died this week at the age of 65, was cast as Batman in 1995’s Batman Forever, replacing Michael Keaton […] The post Val Kilmer Resisted Stardom. He Became an Icon Anyway. appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

It’s that time of year again: An endless parade of horological novelties. Approximately 7,000 ml of espresso. Martinis at 0200 and your alarm clock set to 0500. A blurry-eyed vision of the Jet d’Eau spouting Evian 200 feet into the air. Tired watch brand executives putting on a smile for the camera. Bleary-eyed journalists donning […] The post The Best Watches of Watches & Wonders 2025 appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

You might not expect an automaker who had a banner year in 2024 to replace their CEO in 2025, but that’s precisely what Volvo did this week. Last month, Volvo announced that it had set new sales records in 2024, hailing the year as its second in a row to establish new records. This month, […] The post Former Volvo CEO Returns to Navigate Automaker Through Turbulent Era appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Welcome back to our monthly guide to all things whisk(e)y. Please check out our more in-depth looks at new releases here. Join America's Fastest Growing Spirits Newsletter THE SPILL. Unlock all the reviews, recipes and revelry — and get 15% off award-winning La Tierra de Acre Mezcal. The post The Best New Whiskeys to Drink This April  appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Welcome to See/Hear, InsideHook’s deep dive into the month’s most important cultural happenings, pop and otherwise. Every month, we round up the biggest upcoming movie, TV and album releases, ask some cool people to tell us what they’ve been into lately, make you a playlist we guarantee you’ll have on heavy rotation and recommend a classic (or […] The post See/Hear: The Best Movies, TV and Music for April 2025 appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

When you think of winter sports legends, your mind probably goes straight to Shaun White. What you might not know, however, is that the five-time Olympian snowboarder founded his own snowsports brand. Whitespace is a premier snow brand known for blending game-changing performance with luxury design. The brand is mainly known for its high-performance snowboards […] The post Shaun White’s Snow Brand Is Taking Up to 25% Off Ski and Snowboarding Gear appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Have you heard of Thomas Straker? Maybe you know him from his famous “All Things Butter” series wherein he mixes high-quality butter with an array of spices to curate…nice-tasting butter? Or maybe you know him from his viral cooking videos where he loads up plates with British classics, one-pot wonders and a variety of game-forward […] The post All Things Cookware: Meet Your New Knives appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Performance coach Steve Magness is currently making the podcast rounds for his new book Win the Inside Game, and earlier this month made an appearance on The Rich Roll Podcast. It’s a great listen, but there’s one section in particular that I want to draw your attention to, when Magness identifies an underrated north star […] The post You Should Know Your Mile Time, Even If You’re Not a Runner appeared first on InsideHook. [...]

Mark Cartwright, World History Encyclopedia This gallery of photographs tells the dramatic story of the Second World War (1939-45). The selection aims to reflect the global nature of the [...]

Stephan Blum, The Conversation Based on organic residues - imperceptible to the naked eye and detectable only at a molecular level - bronze age wine consumption must be fundamentally [...]

Erin Blakemore, NatGeo The law, which gives the president sweeping powers over non-citizens, was part of a set of statutes that emerged during the tenuous period following the Revolutionary [...]

Greg McKevitt, BBC Charles M Schulz drew his beloved Peanuts strip for 50 years until he retired on 14 December 1999. By then, the unassuming cartoonist had built a billion-dollar empire. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

When asked about an effort to ban fluoride in drinking water, Utah Governor Spencer Cox said, "It’s not a bill I care that much about” but he still signed it, despite the health benefits being well-established and claims of harm being the kind of slimy epidemiology that claims "risk" of BPA, weedkillers, PFAS, and too many products to count.Utah wants to be the California of the right-wing; ban things because it matches the politics of their voters and science will be marginalized.(1)read more [...]

It's easy for Greenpeace employees in cities to talk about farming but in the real world, without pesticides we'd lose 78 percent of fruit, 54 percent of vegetables, and 32 percent of cereal crops. Most farmers want to optimize razor-thin margins and protect their biggest asset, land, so they are cautious about spraying too much, but the organic process leads to startling amounts of nitrogen runoff into rivers and ground water. A study claims 31 percent of agricultural soils around the world were at high risk from pesticide pollution while the old ways of German farmers recently showed they were exposing [...]

In this article I'm going to examine how student feedback plays a pivotal role in enhancing learning design and engagement, particularly in online education environments. I will explore the mechanisms by which timely, constructive feedback not only improves course content and delivery but also empowers students as co-creators in the learning process.read more [...]

If you insist you will only eat berries picked by hand near a stream, you are virtue signaling to other wealthy people that you have more money than than they do, while masking it in a halo of claiming to care about taste or renewability or other nature.No one is fooled. That is why restaurants and consumers who fetish-ize wild caught fight while claiming it is more nutritious or tastes better are so cloying. Sure, there can be differences in taste, just like if you give a chicken different feed, but that is easily solvable, and has been, like in [...]

Perhaps the most important thing to get right from the start, in most statistical problems, is to understand what is the probability distribution function (PDF) of your data. If you know it exactly -something that is theoretically possible but only rarely achieved in practice- you are in statistical heaven: you can use the maximum likelihood method for parameter estimation, and you can get to understand a lot about the whole problem. read more [...]

Environmental lawyers, especially lawyers at Natural Resources Defense Council, exist to sue companies and to have casus belli they need to suggest corporations are killing us all. It is no surprise that NRDC has hired lots of lawyers who are anti-vaccine, anti-cell-phone, anti-food (ingredients, colors, the type of seed), anti-nuclear, etc.If you don't know any scientists or Republicans, and NRDC employs neither, it is easy to demonize them because you never have them looking at you over lunch.(1) NRDC knows a Republican insider now. Their former lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is part of the Trump administration and the "mainstream" [...]

The only real way to wipe out H5N1, the bird flu that has been ruining egg prices since last year, is to kill off all the wild birds. That is not practical but what we can do is stop buying raw pet food. All of it. Now. And never start again. You will kill your cat if it is transmitted in that food. And stop buying raw milk. All of it. Now. And never start again.read more [...]

When a tourist visits California, the first thing they notice getting off of the airplane is a warning sign that the material they are near will give them cancer. Then another one. Then another. Soon, they become invisible but not before people do searches to see how much more cancer Californians develop than everyone else.(1)Not only will most things in Walmart have a cancer warning, the building itself can give you cancer. Photo: Hank Campbellread more [...]