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The Trump administration initiated a considerable reduction in force (RIF), cutting over 50 percent of the agency’s staff. The court suggested that the administration cannot make such significant changes without congressional approval. US District Judge Myong Joun pointed out that the White House’s “true intention is to effectively dismantle the Department without an authorizing statute” and argued that “the Department…

The government appears confident that the attack was ‘targeted terrorism.’ Expect federal capital murder charges in the coming weeks.

Republicans’ proposed work requirement for Medicaid recipients between the ages of 19 and 64 is expected to save the government $300 billion over seven years, while helping individuals regain the dignity and self-respect that comes from having a job.…

A prominent leader in the American Catholic Church known for feuding with one of the most powerful political figures in United States politics has been appointed to the advisory board of President…

By: Ann E. Marimow – washingtonpost.com – May 22, 2025 With only eight justices voting, the 4-4 tie leaves in place an Oklahoma Supreme Court ruling that a public religious charter school would violate the separation of church and state. The Supreme Court deadlocked Thursday over the constitutionality of what would have been nation’s first public religious charter school, blocking…

Meet the Zoomers who are quitting the rat race, skipping the $8 lattes, and buying homes in towns you’ve never heard of.

About eighteen months ago, I decided I wanted a healthier relationship with my smartphone. My phone had become a fixture in every aspect of my life. I kept it on my desk when I worked, in my pocket during meals, and by my bedside when I slept. I brought it with me to church, to the gym, to the bathroom….

By: Ross Douthat – nytimes.com – April 19, 2025 Everything is under threat. What you care about can make it to the other side. Every great technological change has a destructive shadow, whose depths swallow ways of life the new order renders obsolete. But the age of digital revolution — the time of the internet and the smartphone and the…

An IFS research brief on the pronatal benefits of expanding the Child Tax Credit.

How Plano pastor David Roseberry became the leading edge of a schism in the Episcopal Church over gays in the ministry.

By: Christian Schneider – nationalreview.com – May 15, 2025 Counting on AI to learn for us makes humans boring, awkward, and gullible. In a 2022 Saturday Night Live sketch, game show contestants are grilled about why they clicked “like” on certain Instagram photos. The two male contestants, one of whom is played by guest host Jake Gyllenhaal, are forced to fess up that…