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Reagan did this with New York’s mayors in the 1980s.Clinton did it with big-city mayors in the 90s.But Trump, in this political climate, doing it with a self-identified socialist?That is a power move.

But this narrative has one fatal flaw: It assumes China will always have goods worth shipping — and that America will always need China’s ships to receive them. The reality is very different, and the numbers tell a far more sobering story for Beijing.

Economists estimate the U.S. is short over 650,000 construction and skilled trade workers, a number projected to grow as reshoring accelerates.^9 Unions Are Uniquely Positioned to Fill the Gap Trade unions—if reformed—could: Train tens of thousands of workers rapidly Provide structured apprenticeships Offer healthcare and retirement benefits without federal expansion Rebuild America’s eroded middle class Revitalize post-industrial cities through dignified w

There is a moment in public policy where incompetence crosses the line into something worse: indifference to the public good. The Edgewood ostrich cull is that moment for Canada.

Augustine never asked his readers to withdraw from the world. Christians, he wrote, must live as “resident aliens,” working for the peace of the earthly city while belonging to the heavenly one. This dual citizenship requires discernment: to engage without surrender, to love without idolizing.

The future will not be decided by machines or by mobs, but by whether we can recover the moral imagination that makes both science and society humane.

The tragedy of our age is not that we dream, but that we mistake our dreams for the world. The technocrat seeks to perfect the cosmos through code; the digital socialist seeks to redeem it through policy. Both are children of the same illusion—that reality is pliable clay in the hands of the enlightened.

Trump’s rebuke of absentee air traffic controllers was blunt, divisive, and politically risky — but it was also revealing.It exposed a tension at the heart of American civic life: between self and service, belief and obligation, individual discomfort and public safety.

If managed with quiet precision, the crisis can reaffirm the resilience of American federalism. The true measure of strength is not in silencing dissenting cities, but in proving that the Constitution still governs them.

The truth is, no one in this country should go hungry.SNAP helps, but it’s not the only lifeline.Community, creativity, and a little know-how can keep families fed with dignity.

When they run dark and refuse to stop, they effectively become combatants. Under those conditions, the line between “law enforcement” and “armed conflict” disappears.

Employers argued that allowing unvaccinated religious objectors would cause an undue hardship by endangering patients. If the underlying assumption—“vaccination prevents spread”—is disproven, the hardship becomes speculative rather than substantial. Under Groff v. DeJoy, 600 U.S. 447 (2023), a hardship must be “substantial in the context of the employer’s business.” Evidence that vaccinated and unvaccinated staff transmitted equally would significantly weaken that defense and

They do not fear AI.They fear humans who do not need them. That is why so many consumer AI offerings appear powerful at first, then mysteriously weaken, restrict, sanitize, or disappear. They do not want you empowered. They want you dependent.

Redefine “Agency” Under FARA Modernize the definition to include entities that coordinate, consult, or receive material benefit from a foreign government, political party, or state-linked enterprise. Include “material benefit” such as shared data, travel sponsorships, legislative briefings, or donor targeting enabled by foreign diplomats. Effect: closes the loophole allowing groups to claim independence because no written directive exists.

A persistent security threat that targeted Westerners, regimes, and later broader regional and global arenas. States responded by tightening control over religious institutions, professionalizing counterterrorism, and shaping a “moderate” official discourse—while preserving the option for decisive repression when red lines were crossed.

Over the last decade the Republican Party has stopped behaving like a single organization.What we call “the GOP” is now a coalition of overlapping tribes that share branding and ballot lines, but not a common direction.

Hope lies in artists who dare to sound human again—Rosalía, Natalia Lafourcade, Silvana Estrada—singers who use modern tools without surrendering to them.They remind us that imperfection is not a flaw but a fingerprint.

When extraction zones are violent, Western firms/insurers often retreat. When Congress has de-tooled prosecutors and judges, environmental and labor enforcement collapses. When ports and offtake logistics are Chinese-controlled, supply chains can continue to function even under degraded governance. The net effect is a playing field that increasingly favors PRC-linked SOEs and their partners.

The current accord is a framework / first phase, not yet a comprehensive treaty. It spells out a ceasefire, withdrawal, hostage/prisoner swaps, humanitarian access, and reconstruction—but it does not yet settle who will run Gaza, how disarmament happens, or how long the transition period lasts.

The federal executive may answer with “security operations” that carefully avoid civil-war language, yet act as classic COIN: protecting key nodes, reasserting sovereignty over contested terrain, and using federal charges when local legal systems are unwilling or unable to act. U.S. Army/Marine Corps doctrine (FM 3-24/MCWP 3-33.5) provides a neutral vocabulary: secure the population, control key infrastructure, displace insurgent parallel governance, and restore legitimate ci