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Stringent oversight of broadband funding should be a priority

The push for increased broadband access, with some even calling it a “basic human right,” has led the White House, Congress and state governments to try to connect every American to the internet. But, like many other ideas for how the government can “help,” the solution to the problem ...

HOLY COW! HISTORY: The original ‘Son of a Gun’

Every so often, history offers a story that is so improbable there is no way it could be true. Yet once in the proverbial blue moon, a tale defies the odds and turns out to have really happened. This story isn’t one of them. It was, in fact, a prank that people accepted as fact for over a ...

Summit promotes religion, conscience and belief

Amid pervasive talk of a “divided America,” it can feel nearly impossible to find a subject that sparks genuine bipartisan action. In the domestic context, the issue of “religious freedom” is no exception; the words alone can send partisans to their respective barricades with no truce ...

What the populists in Congress get right and get wrong

The holdouts against Kevin McCarthy’s House speakership — many of them hardline populists of the Freedom Caucus who enabled the horrible attempt to overthrow a free and fair election in violation of the Constitution — squeezed concessions from the powers that be in the chamber. A number ...