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Trump Shifts His Own Vibe
The vibe around President Trump's second term has shifted, and it's all his doing.
The president entered office with a bit of a wind at his back. His polling was better than the first time around, protestors weren't in the streets, and federal investigators weren't after him. The GOP was more united than in 2016, and business leaders wanted ...Read more
The Shots That Changed The World
The iconic Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem "Paul Revere's Ride" begins, "Listen, my children ..."
And, sure enough, we have long told our kids and ourselves of the cinematic events in April 1775, when the famous silversmith warned the countryside of approaching British troops and the American Revolution kicked off in earnest.
Like all ...Read more
Guess What? We're Already Rich
Judging by the results, the United States should be the last country that wants to reorder the world economy.
We've thrived in recent decades, while other advanced democracies have fallen behind.
If we've gotten "ripped off," as President Trump and supporters of the trade war like to say, the supposed thieves have gained little and the ...Read more
A $1 Trillion Defense Budget Isn't Enough!
President Trump likes big round numbers, and he's endorsed one -- $1 trillion -- for the U.S. defense budget.
This is the right idea, and we'll need even more soon enough.
It is the president's wont to declare national emergencies, whether a given situation warrants it or not, but the state of our defenses is a true crisis. While the Pentagon ...Read more
Yes, Bring Back The Woolly Mammoth
We have the dire wolf again.
Thanks to the heroic work of Colossal Biosciences, the canine species that went extinct more than 10,000 years ago has been revived in a stunning act of so-called de-extinction.
The dire wolf is a bit of a Late Pleistocene celebrity thanks to its role in the "Game of Throne" series as a symbol of the Stark family...Read more