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It was a summer of surprises for Iowa pig farmer Rob Brenneman. It began when the 68-year-old, who also serves as president of the National Pork Producers Council, saw his photograph featured in an attack ad claiming the nation’s pork producers were in the pockets of Chinese Communists. Next, he learned that the ad was part of a campaign spearheaded by a recently created organization, the American Meat Producers Association, was led by...
The U.S. has been running a real-time experiment on two approaches to criminal justice: the Biden-era emphasis on social justice versus the Trump administration’s embrace of traditional law and order. The results are now in. The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported this morning that felony violent crime fell 25% in 2025. Rape declined 13%, robbery fell 27%, and aggravated assault dropped 31%. Property crime fell 19%. Except for rape, these are...
The old saw that money is the mother’s milk of politics is a bipartisan truism universally recognized on both sides of the aisle. Anyone who wants to become a political princess or prince must be able to play the pauper, incessantly shaking the tin can in desperate appeals for the cash that, would-be leaders proclaim, spells the difference between victory and defeat. Although Elon Musk has given $366 million to Republicans...
Last fall, FDA safety officers began compiling a list of children possibly killed by COVID vaccines. Digging through thousands of reports of adverse effects and autopsy records of those who had died after receiving the mRNA vaccines manufactured by Moderna and Pfizer, the team eventually determined that several adolescents had apparently died from the COVID vaccines. On Dec. 5, the team’s leader, Dr. Meghna Alimchandani, sent an email recommending changing the labels...

Upending Democratic Norms: Trump Battles the Bureaucracy

It was a summer of surprises for Iowa pig farmer Rob Brenneman. It began when the 68-year-old, who also serves as president of the National Pork Producers Council, saw his photograph featured in an attack ad claiming the nation’s pork producers were in the pockets of Chinese Communists. Next, he learned that the ad was part of a campaign spearheaded by a recently created organization, the American Meat Producers Association, was led by...
The U.S. has been running a real-time experiment on two approaches to criminal justice: the Biden-era emphasis on social justice versus the Trump administration’s embrace of traditional law and order. The results are now in. The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) reported this morning that felony violent crime fell 25% in 2025. Rape declined 13%, robbery fell 27%, and aggravated assault dropped 31%. Property crime fell 19%. Except for rape, these are...
The old saw that money is the mother’s milk of politics is a bipartisan truism universally recognized on both sides of the aisle. Anyone who wants to become a political princess or prince must be able to play the pauper, incessantly shaking the tin can in desperate appeals for the cash that, would-be leaders proclaim, spells the difference between victory and defeat. Although Elon Musk has given $366 million to Republicans...
Last fall, FDA safety officers began compiling a list of children possibly killed by COVID vaccines. Digging through thousands of reports of adverse effects and autopsy records of those who had died after receiving the mRNA vaccines manufactured by Moderna and Pfizer, the team eventually determined that several adolescents had apparently died from the COVID vaccines. On Dec. 5, the team’s leader, Dr. Meghna Alimchandani, sent an email recommending changing the labels...

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