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California’s ‘Anti-Hate’ Law Could Target Christian Beliefs

California is putting the state’s definition of hate into mandatory workplace training. Beginning in 2028, employers covered by the new law must add anti-hate instruction to their harassment courses. Religious advocates warn that teaching on marriage, sexuality and gender could collide with rules framed around protected identities. That puts a serious question before churches: who decides when a religious belief becomes unacceptable speech? The law’s application to religious employers remains unsettled, and the final training content has not been established. Those uncertainties matter; a possible conflict is not proof that every church is already subject to the mandate.

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Private Schools Can Be Woke, Too

Paying tuition does not guarantee that a school shares your family’s values. Prestige, polished tours and a Christian name can conceal a very different classroom culture. Before signing, parents should read the enrollment contract and handbook, talk to families beyond the school’s selected hosts and ask direct questions about teaching, faith and sexuality. When conflict comes, the contract matters. This argument favors careful selection, parental scrutiny and contractual remedies, warning that inviting government to regulate private schools could undermine the independence families sought in the first place.

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Doctors Are Putting Food Back Into Medicine

Medicine has spent decades treating the damage associated with poor diets while giving nutrition limited attention in medical training. This report follows a woman whose blood sugar, cholesterol and blood pressure improved after she changed what she ate, alongside research and policy efforts to bring nutrition into routine care. The practical shift is toward taking food seriously as a tool for preventing and managing chronic disease. Patients may still need medication, procedures or surgery; the case here is for giving nutrition a larger place in treatment.

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Washington’s Affordability Fixes Come With a Bigger Bill

Politicians keep promising to make life cheaper through more subsidies, controls and spending. The Austrian argument is that those interventions often distort prices, protect established businesses and direct resources toward political favorites. Easy money can reward people closest to the financial system before everyone else faces higher prices. The proposed remedy reaches beyond cutting a budget: open markets to competitors, remove special privileges, encourage investment and let failed businesses fail. Lower costs and higher real wages depend on producing more efficiently, rather than legislating prosperity into existence.

THE BIG READ

China Could Corner America Without Invading Taiwan

A full invasion of Taiwan would be an enormous gamble for Beijing. Seizing a small, distant island claimed by Taipei could offer a different route to coercion. This analysis examines places such as Taiping and Pratas, where a limited operation could humiliate Taiwan and demonstrate China’s determination while avoiding the costs of attacking the main island or imposing a sustained blockade. Washington would then face an uncomfortable choice: risk a military clash with China over tiny islands, or allow Beijing to weaken Taiwan’s position through a limited territorial seizure. The same problem confronts Taipei, which may struggle to defend holdings far from home. This is a possible scenario, not evidence of an imminent operation. Its value is showing how a crisis could begin below the threshold America usually plans for.

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