Trump Wants US Ships to Travel Through Panama, Suez Canals for Free

‘Those Canals would not exist without the United States of America,’ the president said. President Donald Trump said on April 26 that America’s military and commercial ships should be allowed to pass through the Panama and Suez canals “free of charge.” “Those Canals would not exist without the United States of America,” Trump wrote on

Student Loan Collections Restarting May 5—Here’s What to Know

‘Debt doesn’t go away; it gets transferred to others,’ Education Secretary Linda McMahon said. The Department of Education will resume collections on May 5 for federal student loans in default for the first time in five years, impacting some 5 million borrowers. Since March 2020, the department has not collected on default loans. When Congress

Nearly 800 Illegal Immigrants Arrested in Florida in 4 Days, ICE Says

ICE said its agents partnered with local law enforcement in Florida in an illegal immigration sweep dubbed Operation Tidal Wave. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, working in conjunction with local law enforcement in Florida, have arrested nearly 800 illegal immigrants across the state in the past four days, the agency announced April 26. While

Make America Healthy Again Movement Extends Beyond Its Architect

‘With how sick and unhealthy we are as a society, this return to the basics is needed,’ said an Ohio mother. For avid supporters, the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement itself is not new. It began long before Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential campaign and subsequent confirmation as health secretary. “The principles of the

The Pronoun Wars

It’s always been allowed, and always will be,To introduce new words, fresh from the mint,Just as in forests in the changing yearNew leaves come in and the oldest drop away,And the new ones bloom and prosper in their time. —Horace, “The Art of Poetry” Change, relentless change, is the keynote of language. A young person

Whistling Past the White House: How the Democratic Party’s Lack of ‘Balls’ Caused the Most Predictable Political Crisis in History

REVIEW: ”Uncharted: How Trump Beat Biden, Harris, and the Odds in the Wildest Campaign in History’ by Chris Whipple Getty Images The amount of effort that went into helping Joe Biden prepare for the CNN debate on June 27, 2024, is farcical in retrospect. Hell, it was farcical at the time. The campaign built a

And My App! Palantir’s Quest To Give AI a Moral Purpose

In a hole in the ground there lived some hobbits—not a nasty, dirty, wet hole. Silicon Valley isn’t known for those. But a respectable place in a respectable town—and yet, somehow, these hobbits ended up going out on a great adventure. They may have lost the neighbors’ respect, but they gained…well, you will see whether