Think Past the Establishment
Falling birthrates will not merely make the population smaller. Fewer workers will be left to support more retirees, threatening higher taxes, later retirement, strained healthcare systems and debts the next generation cannot afford.
ICE made more than 49,000 arrests in July, a 15 percent increase from June and roughly five times the monthly level when Trump returned to office. Expanded staffing and cooperation with local police helped drive the increase, with nearly 20,000 arrests occurring in Florida and Texas.
Crypto, AI and online-betting interests have already poured at least $294 million into the midterms, driving corporate election spending to a record $517 million before the final campaign blitz. Their money crosses party lines with one purpose: elect candidates who will protect their industries and punish those who will not.
AI is no longer simply finding information. It is deciding what people are allowed to know. That shift gives AI companies growing power to define the boundaries of permissible inquiry.
The Biden-era DEA let fentanyl shipments cross the border and reach their destinations in hopes of building larger cases. One load containing 74,000 pills reached a New Mexico mobile-home park, and a whistleblower says the operation may have extended across state lines.
Twenty-five years after September 11, America still remembers the horror but has forgotten the chain of decisions that helped create the threat. Washington armed Islamist fighters against the Soviet Union, abandoned Afghanistan after the Cold War and answered 9/11 by invading Iraq, which had no role in the attacks.