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Thursday, June 13, 2024

'Record' Temperatures: A Statistical Certainty

Buck Throckmorton, The Pipeline

Does Trump’s Conviction Change Anything?

D.D. Guttenplan, The Nation

Rich Students Disproportionally Play the Radical: Should We Fund Elite Universities?

Richard K. Vedder, Independent Institute

Not clear Biden or Trump cognitively up for the job

Leo Gugerty, Asia Times

Donald Trump isn’t alone when it comes to crying 'rigged' over an outcome he doesn’t like

Jonathan Zimmerman, The Philadelphia Inquirer

Race is a social construct, but racism can cause real biological harm

Layal Liverpool, NewScientist

61 Percent: Govt Info During Pandemic Intentionally Misleading

Scott Rasmussen, NewsMax

Should the government mandate that large tech companies share their algorithms with regulators?

49% Yes, 51% No, Voter Polls

"Get It Together: Troubling Tales from the Liberal Fringe"

Jesse Watters, Trending books

"Waveform: The MKBHD Podcast"

Vox Media Podcast Network, Trending podcasts

Claudia Sheinbaum

Trending People, Google

Nobel Prize Speech (1950)

William Faulkner, Speeches

US National Debt: $3.8 Trillion

Trending Data, US Debt Clock

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

The Kids Aren't Alright

Alan Joseph Bauer, Townhall

Inflation Is Not Destroying Joe Biden, but something is!

Zachery D. Carter, Slate

Are American Jews Moving Right?

Joel Kotkin, City Journal

America Is Losing the Arab World

Michael Robbins, Amaney A. Jamal, and Mark Tessler, Foreign Affairs

Dems fearing Trump’s lawfare 'retribution' have only themselves to blame

Dan McLaughlin, New York Post

The upside of feeling dissatisfied with the world: How to work your "weltschmerz"

Kevin Dickinson, Big Think

Americans are evenly divided on whether the average person can be trusted with a gun

Jamie Ballard, YouGov

Should the government implement stricter regulations on the use of cryptocurrencies?

43% Yes, 57% No, Voter Polls

"The Age of Grievance"

Frank Bruni, Trending books

"Strict Scrutiny"

Strict Scrutiny, Trending podcasts

Hunter Biden

Trending People, Google

"JFK" (1991)

Movies, IMDb

US Inflation Rate: 3.4%

Trending Data, Trading Economics

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Joe Biden Plays Let's Pretend on Southern Border 'Fix'

Larry Bell, NewsMax

What we should fear about Trump’s 'breaking point' warning

Dean Obeidallah, CNN

Remote Work Liberated Us from Unaffordable Places–and Might Do What Decades of 'Place‐Based Policy' Couldn’t

Scott Lincicome, CATO Institute

Is US on the brink of a civil war?

Irfan Raja, Daily Sabah

Trump prosecution was 'bathed in politics'

George Brauchler, The Gazette

The NYPD gave officers iPhones—here's what researchers learned about race and policing

Benjamin Kessler, Phys.Org

Rising Concerns Over Future of Medicare and Social Security

Dan Witters, Gallup

Should the government classify cryptocurrencies as legal forms of payment?

39% Yes, 61% No, Voter Polls

"No Going Back: The Truth on What's Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward"

Kristi Noem, Trending books

"What A Day"

Crooked Media, Trending podcasts

Marjorie Taylor Greene

Trending People, Google

"The Handmaid’s Tale" (1985)

Margaret Atwood, Good Reads

Unauthorized Immigrants by US State

Trending Data, Visual Capitalist

Monday, June 10, 2024

How Democrats Faked a Jobs Boom

Daniel Greenfield, Front Page Magazine

Could the GOP Do for Birth Control What It Did for Abortion?

Gabrielle Gurley, The American Prospect

Inflation Denialism Is Hurting Media Credibility

Kevin D. Williamson, The Dispatch

A year of elections in democracies around the world is revealing deep dissatisfaction among voters

Nicholas Riccardi, Isabel DeBre, Danica Kirka, Japan Today

How the GOP is using noncitizen voting as a political boogeyman

Marc Sandalow, San Francisco Examiner

The New ‘White Fortress’ Cities of the American South

Luisa Godinez-Puig, Brian D. Smedley, Bloomberg CityLab

Voters Remain Sour on Biden’s Handling of China

Staff, Rasmussen Reports

Should the United States transition to a four-day workweek?

56% Yes, 44% No, Voter Polls

"The War on Warriors: Behind the Betrayal of the Men Who Keep Us Free"

Pete Hegseth, Trending books

"The Take"

The Take, Trending podcasts

Byron Donalds

Trending People, Google

Supreme Court rules U.S. must pay more for Native American tribes’ health care

SCOTUS Opinion Analysis, SCOTUSBlog

US Unemployment Rate: 4%

Trending Data, Trading Economics

Sunday, June 9, 2024

The Myth That Biden Had Nothing To Do With The Prosecutions Of Trump

Victor Davis Hanson, Daily Caller

Justices Sotomayor and Kagan must retire now

Ian Millhiser, Vox

Interest rates may need to go higher if the Fed wants inflation at 2%

Peter Morici, Market Watch

Using Ukraine Since 1948

Joe Lauria, Consortium News

Why Biden’s new border plan is a terrible idea

Karen Musalo, Los Angeles

Demand Shortfalls and the Floorplate Mismatch: What’s Happening with Downtown Retail

Michael J. Berne, Urban Land

U.S. Voter Support for Israeli Military Aid Reaches Wartime Low

Eli Yokley, Morning Consult

Should Supreme Court justices be prohibited from making financial transactions with people who have a vested interest in court outcomes?

86% Yes, 14% No, Voter Polls

"Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up"

Abigail Shrier, Trending books

"Honestly with Bari Weiss"

Honestly with Bari Weiss, Trending podcasts

Hallie Biden

Trending People, Google

US Constitution 16th Amendment "Income Tax" (1913)

History, National Constitution Center

US President Job Approval: 39.8%

Trending Data, Real Clear Politics

Saturday, June 8, 2024

Democrats' Lawfare Proves Politically Impotent, Likely to Come Back to Haunt Them

Josh Hammer, The Daily Signal

How Trump's conviction is reshaping the GOP's attitudes toward the law in radical ways

Zeeshan Aleem, MSNBC

As the 2024 Election Draws Closer, Independent Voters Defy Partisan Expectations

Shawn Griffiths, Independent Voter News

Alliances Mean Victory

Richard Levine, The National Interest

Why consumers think inflation is still really high when it's not

Akshay R. Rao, Star Tribune

Folk music was never green

Richard Smyth, Aeon

Abortion-rights ballot measures are leading in the polls

Irena Li, ABC News 538

Should the government implement rent control policies to limit the amount landlords can charge for rent?

62% Yes, 38% No, Voter Polls

"The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America"

Coleman Hughes, Trending books

"Stay Tuned with Preet"

CAFE, Trending podcasts

Joe Manchin

Trending People, Google

"All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats."

Political Quotes, Groucho Marx

US Direction of Country: 25.0%

Trending Data, Real Clear Politics

Friday, June 7, 2024

When Did Dems Transition to Becoming the War Party?

Selwyn Duke, New American

Ruth Bader Biden

Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic

Bragg’s Conviction Against Trump Means It’s Open Season on Former Presidents

John Yoo, Charles Stimson, The Heritage Foundation

Bernie Sanders has lost Vermont Working-class voters are fleeing the state

Samuel McIlhagga, UnHerd

Remembering the Greatest Generation on D-Day’s milestone anniversary

James Doelling, Chicago Sun Times

'Moral decoupling' explains why Trump guilty verdict so easily dismissed by supporters

Eugene Y. Chan, Ali Gohary, StudyFinds

Voters oppose student protests, say they haven’t made them more sympathetic to the Palestinians

Victoria Balara, Fox News

Should the government provide subsidies for the development of high-speed rail networks?