When the Chernobyl nuclear accident happened on April 26, 1986, Maia Mendel was five months’ pregnant with her daughter Julia, who would become President Volodymyr Zelensky’s press secretary. Radiation had permeated the region, causing Maia to worry that she would give birth to a baby ...
On the second to last day of its term, the Supreme Court fulfilled its duty to uphold the guarantees of equal protection of the 14th Amendment when it threw out the race-based admission policies of Harvard College and the University of North Carolina, finally ending the morally repugnant racial ...
Things were supposed to be so different by now. Futurists predicted that by the 21st century, we’d travel in helicopter cars, vacation on Mars, and all would be wearing those nifty space jumpsuits. It didn’t turn out that way. One thing they especially got wrong was food. However, ...
Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency came out with new power plant regulations, perhaps the most ambitious effort yet, to roll back “planet warming pollution.” This is on the heels of the Clean Power Plan’s failure to hold up in court last year, with the Supreme Court ruling ...
It is argued that if the Titan submersible had been certified (read “peer-reviewed”), the deadly accident, which killed all five on board, wouldn’t have taken place. That may or not be true. Now there are calls for adventurism tourism to be regulated. I submit that if it is subject to ...
The Supreme Court has just saved American taxpayers more than half a trillion dollars by holding that President Biden and Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona cannot cancel federal student loans under the Higher Education Relief Opportunities for Students Act of 2003, the “HEROES ...