Russia’s Formal Recognition Of The Taliban Comes At A Crucial Time For The Broader Region Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack, Russia became the first country to formally recognize the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan earlier this month. This development comes at a crucial time for the region: Trump wants to return US forces to Afghanistan’s Bagram Airbase; there are newfound concerns about […]

Visualizing The State Of Freedom Around The World In 2024, 60 countries saw their freedom decline in a historic election year. Strikingly, 40% of countries and territories that held elections experienced targeted attacks on candidates amid heightened instability. Yet bright spots were seen in Bangladesh, Bhutan, and Syria, driven by political reform. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist’s Dorothy Neufeld, shows the state of […]

Older Adults Outnumber Children In More US States, Median Age Hits New High Authored by Mary Prenon via The Epoch Times, A new report from the Census Bureau indicates older adults now outnumber children in 11 states and almost half of the counties in the United States. The census data shows that the U.S. population continues to age, with the share of the 65-year-plus group steadily increasing from 12.4 percent in 2004 to 18 […]

Half Of Americans Who Think They’re “Middle Class” Really Aren’t: Pew The term “middle class” is widely used in American discourse, but few people can clearly define it or know if they truly belong to it, , according to Pew Research and Yahoo Finance. According to the Pew Research Center, just over half of U.S. households—51% as of 2023—qualify as middle income, a noticeable drop from 61% in 1971. This decline suggests […]

Obama Wants The Power To Define ‘Facts’ Authored by J.B. Shurk via AmericanThinker.com, The Connecticut Forum hosted Barack Obama a few weeks ago to discuss current events, and the former president took the opportunity to support government regulatory constraints for online speech.  “We want diversity of opinion.  We don’t want diversity of facts,” Obama opined in his nonchalant way of attacking the First Amendment […]

Is Gen Z The Useful Idiot Generation A sizable proportion of young Americans lean heavily to the left, often with limited understanding of history, moral grounding, or the foundations of Western civilization. Whether it’s the result of leftist indoctrination on college campuses or the intellectual decay sparked by endless hours on social media, the effect is apparent: radicalism is here to stay. Mark Penn, a pollster and adviser […]

Oregon Faces Title IX Lawsuit Over Males In Girls’ High School Sports Authored by Scottie Barnes via The Epoch Times, A conservative nonprofit filed a federal lawsuit July 8 on behalf of three Oregon high school girls alleging that the state’s education and athletic authorities violated federal anti-discrimination protections by allowing biological males to compete in girls’ track and field events. The America First Policy […]

Chelsea Clinton Mocked After Using Texas Flood Disaster To Promote Clinton Global Initiative X users were very skeptical Wednesday afternoon after Chelsea Clinton—currently a board member of the controversial Clinton Global Initiative (CGI)—announced that CGI members had been mobilized to flood-ravaged Kerr County, Texas. “Members of the @ClintonGlobal community are on the ground in Texas, supporting families, communities and […]

‘American Hero’: Coast Guard Swimmer Praised For Saving 165 From Flood At Camp Mystic Authored by Aldgra Fredly via The Epoch Times, A Coast Guard rescue swimmer, Scott Ruskan, is being hailed as a hero for helping to rescue more than 160 people at Camp Mystic during flash floods that ravaged central Texas over the weekend. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said Ruskan directly saved 165 people from the floodwaters that […]

NASA Eyes Deep Staff Cuts In Major Agency Overhaul Less than 24 hours after the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to slash the bloated federal bureaucracy and gut agencies, Politico reports that thousands of senior-ranking NASA employees are set to exit in a massive restructuring. Politico cited internal documents showing that NASA plans to cut 2,694 staff members through a combination of early retirement […]

Patriot Missile Stockpile A Fraction Of What Pentagon Needs As Trump Arms Ukraine Via The Libertarian Institute The ongoing wars in the Middle East and Ukraine have depleted US stockpiles of missile interceptors. The Pentagon has just a quarter of the Patriot missiles it needs. According to the Guardian, “The United States only has about 25% of the Patriot missile interceptors it needs for all of the Pentagon’s military plans […]

Philly Trash Standoff Ends As City’s Largest Municipal Union Reaches Tentative Agreement, Ending Strike After more than a week of stalled trash collection, closed libraries, and disrupted city services, the City of Philadelphia and its largest municipal union have reached a tentative agreement, bringing an end to a major strike that began July 1, according to NBC News. For an idea of exactly how many DC 33 workers are integral to […]

America Must Lead On Seafloor Mineral Development Authored by Alina Voss via RealClearEnergy, An untapped energy savior might just be sitting on the ocean floor. From AI to defense to clean energy, critical minerals remain pivotal to securing the United States’ competitive edge. Unfortunately, supply chains remain precariously dependent on foreign control, often from adversarial nations like China, leaving the country vulnerable […]

“Most Significant Seismicity Since 2009”: Quake Swarm Detected At Washington’s Mt. Rainier The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) at the Cascade Volcano Observatory reported Tuesday that an earthquake swarm has been detected beneath Mount Rainier in Washington State. While this marks the most significant seismic activity at the volcano since 2009, the USGS emphasized that there is no immediate cause for concern and the alert level […]

The Kids Are Not Alright Authored by Jason Strecker via The Brownstone Institute, This was another week in what has become a regular occurrence: being contacted by concerned parents seeking advice on why their school is spiraling out of control, with their kid being caught up in the collateral damage. The feeling is akin to a song the 90s rock band Offspring composed but brought sharply into focus in 2025, The Kids Aren’t […]

“Get The Hell Off American Agriculture”: U.S. Moves To Ban Farmland Sales to China The Trump administration is moving to ban the sale of U.S. farmland to foreign adversaries, with a particular focus on China, citing national security and food system vulnerabilities, according to MSN/Washington Post. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced the policy shift Tuesday, saying the administration is preparing an executive order and […]

The Swamp Always Wins: Why Outsiders Break When They Enter Washington Authored by Maureen Steele via ClashDaily.com, They come in fists raised, eyes blazing, sleeves rolled. They say they’ll drain the swamp, burn it down, expose the rot. But somewhere between the campaign trail and Capitol Hill, something changes. The American people have seen this pattern so many times, it’s practically a rite of passage. The outsider, […]

French Intelligence Chief: US Overstated Iran Strike Impact & We Don’t Know Where The Uranium Is The head of France’s foreign intelligence agency stated Tuesday that last month’s Israeli and American airstrikes on Iran had destroyed only part of its stockpile of highly enriched uranium, though the reality is that the exact whereabouts of the remaining material are unknown. Chief of the country’s Directorate-General for […]

“Vindicated”: Man Charged By Biden’s DOJ For Posting A Meme Has Conviction Overturned Authored by Ken Silva via Headline USA, An appeals court has overturned the conviction against Douglas Mackey, who was charged with election interference under the Biden administration for posting a meme in 2016 about voting for then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton via text message. The Hillary Clinton meme posted by Douglass Mackey (aka […]

Hakeem Jeffries Ditches Gym, Flexes Photoshop Instead Authored by Luis Cornelio via Headline USA, Did House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries Photoshop his waist to appear slimmer? Social media critics think so.  Jeffries, D-N.Y., became the target of viral mockery on Monday after critics pointed out what they viewed as botched photo editing on the top Democrat’s Instagram page.  The photo, shared Sunday, shows Jeffries […]

Stellar 10Y Auction Stops Through Amid Surge In Direct Bidders After yesterday’s ugly, tailing 3Y auction, which saw record Directs as foreign buyers tumbled, moments ago the Treasury sold $39BN in 10Y notes in a closely watched auction. In the end, the auction went through without a glitch, with solid buyside demand which was foreshadowed by today’s sharp bid across the curve. The auction priced at a high yield of 4.362%, down […]

Amazon Prime Day Sales Plummet On First Day  New data from Momentum Commerce shows that Amazon’s decision to extend Prime Day from two to four days backfired—Day 1 sales plummeted, marking a grim start. Shoppers are filling their carts but holding off on purchases, hoping for deeper discounts. Meanwhile, spending trends are soft, reinforcing the cautious consumer outlook echoed by several research desks we track. Bloomberg […]

Surviving Crew Members Kidnapped By Houthis After Greek-Owned Cargo Ship Attacked Update(1505ET): Things have gone from bad to worse regarding the situation of the Greek-owned cargo ship Eternity C, which was sunk in a deadly Houthi raid. The missing mariners aboard the ship are now confirmed kidnapped, after at least four were killed. The US embassy accused Yemen’s Iran-backed militants Wednesday of kidnapping crew members from […]

Waste Of The Day: Puerto Rico, Guam, Others In Debt Authored by Jeremy Portnoy via RealClearWire, Topline: The five inhabited U.S. territories are collectively $57.8 billion in debt and have issues with their financial statements that “can lead to poor financial decisions and lost access to capital markets,” according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. Key facts: The GAO suggested that the territories […]

Trump Says BRICS Members Will Get Additional 10% Tariffs Over De-Dollarization Attempt Authored by Lily Zhou via The Epoch Times, President Donald Trump on Tuesday reiterated a previous warning to BRICS nations that he would be imposing an additional 10 percent tariff on them, saying the bloc was created to replace the U.S. dollar as the dominant currency for international trade. Speaking to journalists during a meeting with […]