The Meat Industry’s Tireless Effort to Keep Live Pigs in Coffins
If enacted, a new measure would invalidate scores of state and local standards regulating the production and sale of meat…
The Dark Side of the Good War
Of all the stories of Nazi impunity that I have encountered, one of the most disturbing concerns Florence Gould, an…
Economic Hit Men for Gambling Apps
Elizabeth Prelogar is just one of several former Biden officials arguing on behalf of crypto and its younger brother, the…
Maine Needs a Lighthouse Primary
The first of the two times I wrote about Graham Platner at these pages was last year, in a story…
Trump and Teddy Roosevelt: Lost in the Badlands
Last week, kicking off his Independence Day activities, Donald Trump flew off to North Dakota’s Badlands in his new Air…
The Project Crypto Scheme
While raking in this cash from the family business, Trump oversaw the passage of the GENIUS Act, unleashing barely regulated…
Tech Industry Transit Systems Endanger Immigrants, Advocates Fear
Everyone aboard the M4 bus in Upper Manhattan this spring was staring at a woman in her early forties as…
Data Centers Win-Lose in Virginia
Virginia lawmakers avoided a potential government shutdown with a compromise that put the country’s first data center energy consumption tax…
Benjamin Franklin, Champion of the Wealth Tax
When we consider which of the nation’s Founding Fathers still provides wise counsel to us today, 250 years after they…
Marco Rubio’s Dangerous Diplomacy in Lebanon
While Secretary of State Marco Rubio seemed to maintain a low profile while the Iran war’s violence was at its…