By Brittany Bernstein – https://www.nationalreview.com – September 4th, 2025 The study is the first to be based on local data taken from coastal sites around the world, rather than on models based on extrapolations.   A new first-of-its-kind study by Dutch researchers finds no evidence of a global acceleration in sea level rise because of climate change. The peer-reviewed paper, “A Global...

By: Phil Gramm and Jeb Hensarling – wsj.com – September 3, 2025 The central bank differs from other agencies in that the power to coin money belongs to Congress. The Constitution gives Congress the power to coin money and regulate its value. Congress, in fulfilling that delegated responsibility, created the Federal Reserve. In carrying out narrowly defined monetary policy, the Fed isn’t...

President Trump’s newly applied tariffs on low-value imports will cost U.S. consumers money, potentially costing him votes as inflation rises and public approval of his handling of the econom…

Questions for RFK in the Senate focus on vaccines, autism, and healthcare policies.

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – September 4, 2025 A metaphor no more. We are going to wage combat against drug cartels that are flooding American streets and killing Americans,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday night. America’s “war on drugs,” he revealed, was a metaphor no more. Indeed, open hostilities had already begun. Earlier that evening, the firepower U.S. Southern...

He’s sending in the National Guard; he’s firing federal bosses — the turbulence of Trump’s second administration continues, with his “resistance” still in disarray. And although the White House’s policy maelstrom has made things less predictable for American businesses, there’s one big lesson the executive suite and middle management should learn from the president’s strategy: don’t sweat the small stuff.

Exploring the decline of confidence in major institutions and the role of big business.

President Trump addresses America’s hidden war with new policies targeting overdose deaths and murders that killed nearly 100,000 people in the United States.

No one likes airplane food—which almost inevitably means small portions, limited options, and the unavoidable presence of chicken. Despite bland offerings, passengers are usually just hungry enough—or just bored enough—to eat anyway. In K-12 (primary and secondary) schools in the U.S., academic standards are the equivalent of airline food.

By: Rahm Emanuel – wsj.com – August 31, 2025 Can Americans stop fighting each other long enough to appreciate the threat from China? The latest illustration of the division and dysfunction in our politics—images of the National Guard occupying our nation’s capital—has justifiably infuriated my fellow Democrats. But the military’s deployment in Washington shouldn’t be understood merely as the latest MAGA...