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Thursday, January 4, 2024

Exposing Wasteful Spending of the U.S. Government: The Festivus Report

Craig Eyermann, Independent Institute

Political Accountability Isn’t Dead Yet

Russell Berman, The Atlantic

What We Learned From Creating the Largest Guaranteed Income Program in America

Pete Subkoviak, Newsweek

December beats record for most illegal immigrant crossings of US-Mexico border of all time

Libby Emmons, PM

You chatted my son Casey's name. 3 years after a deputy hunted him, nothing has changed

Tamala Payne, The Columbus Dispatch

Remembering Teachers Who Mattered and Are Part of Who I Am Today

Daniel R. Schwarz, The Cornell Daily Sun

Majorities support measures to strengthen border security as the issue increases in importance

Fox News

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

Wednesday, January 3, 2024

The Corruption of Everything

M.B. Mathews, American Thinker

The Courts Can’t Save Us From Trump

Stephen Prager, Current Affairs

Want to Solve the Border Crisis? Legalize Immigration

David J. Bier, CATO Institute

U.S. tensions with China fraying long-cultivated academic ties

Didi Tang, Japan Today

My grandmother escaped Nazi Germany; I think of fleeing the U.S.

Robin Meyerowitz, The Mercury News

The Right to Education

Craig Birckhead-Morton, Yale News

Which states could get new congressional maps in 2024?

FiveThirtyEight

Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

Mark Harmon, Leon Carroll (With)

Tuesday, January 2, 2024

Harvard has been destroyed by DEI

Editorial, Human Events

Nikki Haley Needs a History Lesson

Chris Lehmann, The Nation

AI is an incredible "intelligence equalizer" — if we use it smartly

Kate Bravery, Ilya Bonic, Kai Anderson, Big Think

Rudy Giuliani, once ‘America’s mayor’, had a very bad year

Lloyd Green, The Guardian

Teacher shortage fuels achievement gap in CT

Editorial, The Hour

Up in smoke: The high stakes of marijuana legalization

Alec Youngdahl, The Minnesota Daily

Biden Ends 2023 With 39% Job Approval

Gallup

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann

Monday, January 1, 2024

Election Interference of the Worst Kind: Maine Secretary of State Strikes Trump From Ballot Amid Colorado Case

Tyler O'Neil, The Daily Signal

The House GOP had the wildest, least productive 2023 imaginable

Hayes Brown, MSNBC

Is The New York Times Fake News?

Henry A. Brechter, AllSides

Harvard’s Claudine Gay isn’t a victim of racism

Brendan O’Neill, The Spectator

Solar installations are plummeting and California regulators are to blame

Editorial, Los Angeles Times

The Disturbing Denial of Jewish Grief

Eric I. Kalimi and Isaac Mansell, The Harvard Crimson

75% See U.S. Leadership Getting Worse

Rasmussen Reports

Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

Liz Cheney

Sunday, December 31, 2023

Trending Analysis

75% See U.S. Leadership Getting Worse

Rasmussen Reports

Biden Ends 2023 With 39% Job Approval

Gallup

Which states could get new congressional maps in 2024?

FiveThirtyEight

Majorities support measures to strengthen border security as the issue increases in importance

Fox News

Americans sour on primary election process and major political parties, poll says

The Orange County Register

Trending Books

Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning

Liz Cheney

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann

Ghosts of Honolulu: A Japanese Spy, a Japanese American Spy Hunter, and the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor

Mark Harmon, Leon Carroll (With)

Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism

Rachel Maddow

Enough

Cassidy Hutchinson

Trending Podcasts

Morning Wire

Morning Wire

Marketplace

Marketplace

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

The Fox News Rundown

FOX News Radio

The Rachel Maddow Show

Rachel Maddow, MSNBC

Trending People

Shenna Bellows

Maine Encyclopedia

Nikki Haley

Bigraphy.com

Herb Kohl

US News

Marjorie Taylor Greene

House.gov

Political Culture

US Constitution Article 1 (1788)

National Constitution Center

Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

SCOTUS, Landmark Cases

A Room of One (1928)

Virginia Woolf, Britannica

Solidarity Day march (1981)

Smithsonian

Long Walk to Freedom (1994)

Nelson Mandela, GoodReads

JFK (1991)

Oliver Stone, IMDb

Get Up Stand Up (1973)

Bob Marley and Peter Tosh, Lyrics

Charlamagne Tha God

The Breakfast Club

MKUltra

WikiWand (conspiracies)

US Chamber of Commerce

Open Secrets (top lobbyists profile)

Soros Fund Management

Open Secrets (top political donors profile)

RINO

PoliticalDictionary

Éminence grise

WikiWand (political metaphors)

Saturday, December 30, 2023

Trending Data

President Approval: 39.7% ➚ 40.5%

Real Clear Politics

Congress Approval: 20.0% ➚ 21.3%

Real Clear Politics

Direction of Country: 24.7% ➚ 25.1%

Real Clear Politics

Party Affiliation: Democrat-27% ➚ 29%

Gallup

Party Affiliation: Republican-27% ➚ 29%

Gallup

Party Affiliation: Independent-45% ➘ 40%

Gallup

Gross Domestic Product: 2.1% ➚ 4.9%

Trading Economics

Inflation: 3.2% ➘ 3.1%

Trading Economics

Unemployment: 3.9% ➘ 3.7%

Trading Economics

Labor Force Participation: 62.7% ➚ 62.8%

Trading Economics

Consumer Confidence: 104.3 ➘ 102.6

CEIC

Fiscal Confidence: 38 ➘ 37

Peterson Foundation

National Debt: $33.8T ➚ $33.9T

US Debt Clock

Media Approval: 34% ➘ 32%

Gallup

Voter Surveys

Should “gender identity” be added to anti-discrimination laws?

57% Yes 43% No

Should immigrants be deported if they commit a serious crime?

83% Yes 17% No

Should the federal government fund Universal preschool?

64% Yes 36% No

Should funding for local police departments be redirected to social and community based programs?

40% Yes 60% No

Should health insurers be allowed to deny coverage to individuals who have a pre-existing condition?

15% Yes 85% No

Trending Legislation

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that regular journalistic activities are protected under the First Amendment, and that the United States ought to drop all charges against and attempts to extradite Julian Assange.

US Congress

Restricts all ownership of agricultural land in State by foreign governments and persons.

New Jersey

Relative to prohibiting the use of federal, state, or local funds for lobbying activities.

New Hampshire

Restoring firearm ownership rights to ex-felons.

New Hampshire

Relating to parental rights regarding a threat assessment of a student conducted by a public school's threat assessment and safe and supportive school team.

Texas

Friday, December 29, 2023

Newsom’s California: Latest Evidence of a Death Spiral

Steven Greenhut, The American Spectator

Abolition Is a Global Movement. Here’s What We Learned From Allies Worldwide.

Victoria Law and Erica R. Meiners, Truthout

There’s a Better Way to Mine for Electric Vehicle Batteries

Beia Spiller and Sangita Kannan, Scientific American

The fall of Claudine Gay is a blow to the cult of DEI

Jenny Holland, Spiked

Is retail theft a problem? Just ask store security

Editorial, The Seattle Times

NYU’s ‘Respect/No Hate’ campaign is a well-intentioned facade

Abi Rivera, Washington Square News

Americans sour on primary election process and major political parties, poll says

The Orange County Register

Enough

Cassidy Hutchinson

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