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Eco-Warriors Want to Turn Up the Heat on Your Wallet to Fund Their Climate Agenda

If you think your energy bills are high now, just wait until the climate activists get their way. They’ve launched a massive, nationwide campaign of lawfare which, if successful, would raise the avera...

2026-10-08

EveryCRSReport CRS & CBO Analysis 7/10 ?

State and Local Role in Elections Policy: Selected Recent Developments

States and localitieshaveprimary responsibility for administering elections in the United States, including for setting elections policy. Congress has sometimes used what the Supreme Courthas describe...

2026-10-09

Judicial Watch CRS & CBO Analysis 8/10 ?

Judicial Watch: Trump Virginia Golf Club Member Carried Loaded Handgun in Bag While President Was on...

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced it forced the release of 14 pages of heavily redacted records from…The postJudicial Watch: Trump Virginia Golf Club Member Carried Loaded Handgun in Bag Whi...

2026-10-08

Claremont Institute CRS & CBO Analysis 8/10 ?

Brazilian Election: A Global Turn Against the Left?

Flávio Bolsonaro, son of Brazilian ex-President Jair Bolsanaro, won 47-45 in the first round of Brazil’s general election against incumbent President Lula.

2026-10-08

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Restoring Reproductive Health: A Policy Framework for Advancing Restorative Reproductive Medicine and Payment Reform

Infertility and reproductive health conditions such as endometriosis, polycystic ovary syndrome, progesterone deficiency, insulin resistance, thyroid disease, and male-factor infertility affect millio...

2026-10-08

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Amending the National Environmental Policy Act: Analysis of the SPEED Act (H.R. 4776)

Congress has enacted and considered a variety of measures concerning various aspects of federal permitting processes. Certain activities that support the nation's economy and infrastructure, including...

2026-10-09

Claremont Institute CRS & CBO Analysis 8/10 ?

Beasts, Gods, and Bots: Facing down the Specter of a Post-Human Future

Anthropic's top brass have been meeting religious leaders and trying to bring theology into the AI conversation.

2026-10-07

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What a Best-Selling Divorce Memoir Does Not Say About Marriage

Belle Burden’sStrangers: A Memoir of Marriageis one of2026’s most talked-about books. It tells the story of a woman whose husband abruptly left their 20-year marriage, refused to explain why, and expo...

2026-10-08

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Ex Parte Communications in Informal Rulemaking: A Legal Framework

Ex parte communicationsare nonpublic communications between an agency official and either a person outside the government or inside the government but in a different agency to which the public has not...

2026-10-08

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Is the Rise in Cohabitation Fueling a Marriage Slowdown?

Cohabitation has not always been the norm, but times have certainly changed. A recentstudyfrom the Pew Research Center found that 77% of American adults ages 38-43 have lived together with an unmarrie...

2026-10-08

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Before You Destroy 2024 Election Records, Keep the Evidence

Nearly two years after the 2024 election, election officials nationwide have reached an important milestone.Federal law requires that records related to federal elections be preserved for 22 months. T...

2026-10-08

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Strategic Ambiguity Isn’t Perfect, but It Remains Washington’s Best Bet

The Taiwan Strait has enjoyed relative peace for the last five decades, thanks largely to the American policy of “strategic ambiguity,” which deliberately leaves open the question of what the U.S. wou...

2026-10-08

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Time to End the Long Iran–Nicaragua Relationship

Following U.S.–Israeli airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear weapons project in the June 2025 “12-Day War,” U.S. intelligence agencies warned the American public that risk of retaliation against the United Sta...

2026-10-08

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Securing and Defending America’s Interests in the Pacific: A Strategy to Prevent the Next World War

Executive SummaryThe People’s Republic of China (PRC) seeks to return to its self-appointed role as the “Middle Kingdom” at the center of the world. To do this it must supplant the United States, both...

2026-10-07

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Is “Islamophobia” Irrational?

“Phobos” is Greek for “fear.” In modern times, “phobia” has come to mean anirrationalfear. Presumably arationalfear is based on a reasonable risk.Is arachnophobia (fear of spiders) irrational? There a...

2026-10-07

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Retail Electricity Rates and Utility Return on Equity: State Primacy and Federal Influence

Retail Electricity Rates and Utility Return on Equity: State Primacy and Federal Influence The retail electricity rates paid by end-use commercial and residential customers have long been a focus of f...

2026-10-08

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Active Presidential Tariff Actions in 2026: Fact Sheet

Since the beginning of the second Trump Administration on January 20, 2025, President Donald J. Trump has used various trade authorities to impose tariffs. Following the Supreme Court's ruling on Febr...

2026-10-08

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Artificial Intelligence and Federal Criminal Law: Considerations for Congress

Recently, leading technology companies that have developed generative artificial intelligence (AI)modelsandagentsdisclosed certain cybersecurity incidents and cases of misuse related to their products...

2026-10-08

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Ranked-Choice Voting: Legal Challenges and Considerations for Congress

Ranked-choice voting (RCV) is an alternative voting system that allows voters to rank multiple candidates on a ballot in order of preference. RCV has been adopted in nearly50jurisdictionsacross the Un...

2026-10-08

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The Good Neighbor Authority on Federal Lands: In Brief

Under the Good Neighbor Authority, the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior (Secretaries) may authorize specified nonfederal partners to conduct land management projects on certain federal land...

2026-10-07