Federal Court Rules in Favor of Professor Who Satirized School’s DEI Stance

Students walk on campus at the University of Washington in Seattle on March 6, 2020. Karen Ducey/Getty Images University of Washington professor Stuart Reges was exercising free speech when he parodied his employer’s official statement that the land encompassing the Seattle school belongs to local indigenous people, federal judges have determined. The U.S. Ninth Circuit

Year-Over-Year Inflation Across Conservative and Liberal States

Summary State and local economic conditions and policies lead to deviations in inflation from the national average. For example, if local housing supply is relatively inelastic, then monetary or fiscal expansions translate more into local price increases than into quantities increases, generating more inflation in housing rents than in otherwise similar locations with more elastic

How China’s Rare Earth Stranglehold Is Unleashing American Innovation

By Owen Evans | December 23, 2025Updated:December 23, 2025 The West may have found an unexpected way to chip away at communist China’s dominance in the production of critical minerals: extracting metals from oil wells, waste streams, and discarded electronics in an attempt to scale up processing technologies at home. Instead of waiting years for

Supreme Court says Trump can’t deploy National Guard to Chicago for now

Washington — The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a bid by the Trump administration to deploy National Guard members to the Chicago area while a legal challenge moves forward, delivering a setback to President Trump in his effort to use federalized troops in Illinois to ensure enforcement of federal immigration laws. The high court left