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What The Fertility Industry Doesn’t Want Couples To Hear

For years, the fertility industry has attacked restorative reproductive medicine with two contradictory arguments.The first is that RRM is not real medicine. The American Society for Reproductive Medi...

2026-08-07

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Wine Lunacy

How an obscure occultist gave us the finest Pinot Noirs on earth.

2026-08-07

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Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Status of Oil and Gas Program

December 27, 2021 – August 7, 2026IF12006 TheArctic National Wildlife Refuge(ANWR, or the Refuge) comprises 19 million acres in northeast Alaska, administered primarily by the Fish and Wildlife Se...

2026-08-07

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Jackson vs. Thomas

The Supreme Court ended its latest term with a spectacle that even the most jaded court-watcher may find diverting: Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson swinging hammer and tongs at Justice Clarence Thomas o...

2026-08-06

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Common GoodGate, Again

Common good discourse suffered distortions as it became a catch-all term for the worst fears of the Trump-deranged. Now, J.D. Vance has occasioned new debate over the term.

2026-08-06

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China’s E-Commerce Exports and U.S. De Minimis Policies

January 31, 2025 – August 7, 2026IF12891 The People's Republic of China's (PRC's or China's) e-commerce policies have promoted PRC exports while limiting the scope of PRC e-commerce imports. Betwe...

2026-08-07

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Proposed Tax Hikes, in NYC and Elsewhere, Spur Wealth Flight

A new report from the non-profit Citizen Budget Commission reveals that New York lost over $10 billion in personal income tax revenue for fiscal year 2022. The problem is clear: high-income earners an...

2026-08-06

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Frequently Asked Questions About Tax-Exempt Organizations

January 30, 2007 – August 7, 202696-264 This report answers frequently asked questions about tax-exempt organizations. The report focuses on the types of organizations described in Internal Revenu...

2026-08-07

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The American Creed Did Not Drop From the Sky

Is America a “creedal” nation, or one bound only by a unifying culture? This is one of several debates roiling conservatism these days. Conservatives may find solace in thinking, well, unlike our libe...

2026-08-06

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Congress Can Start H-1B Reforms in “Reconciliation 3.0” Bill

After passing a $70 billion bill to fund ICE and the border patrol through the rest of President Trump’s second term, Republicans in Congress have another chance to pass a party-line funding package b...

2026-08-06

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Trump Is Running Out of Time To End Refugee Asylum Abuse for Good

The most powerful people-magnet on Earth was at the root of last week’s epic mass migration event that swamped Ceuta, Spain’s city enclave on the Moroccan coast: the perceived opportunity amongpoor la...

2026-08-06

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Competition Comes to College Admissions Testing

Texas has expanded competition in college admissions testing. On July 22, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Boarddeterminedthat the Classic Learning Test meets the same standards of rigor and re...

2026-08-05

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No True Scotsman at St. Andrews: When DEI Goes Too Far

Scotland’s St. Andrews University was founded in 1413, before Columbus set sail for the Americas. They admitted the first woman four centuries later, in 1892. So, it’s an inescapable fact that most of...

2026-08-05

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Lapses in DHS Appropriations: History and Plans

Every year, the federal government's fiscal year ends at midnight on September 30. As this deadline approaches, if any of the regular, full-year appropriations measures are not expected to be enacted ...

2026-08-07

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China-Sub-Saharan Africa Ties and U.S. Policy

Since the early 2000s, political, economic, diplomatic, and security engagement between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and countries in sub-Saharan Africa ("Africa" hereinafter, unless otherwise...

2026-08-06

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Mental States in Criminal Law

The Supreme Court has recognized that crime consists of the "concurrence of an evil-meaning mind with an evil-doing hand." 1 Accordingly, a core component of a federal criminal law is the criminal act...

2026-08-06