Politics

The joke's on Newsom: Court sides with Babylon Bee in striking down anti-deepfake law
A federal judge tossed a California law intended to prevent fake political ads from influencing elections, finding that the measure violated the First Amendment in response to a legal...

Trump taps federal agents to tackle local policing. That's not always helpful, critics say
It's a scene that has played out on the streets of Washington and Los Angeles since President Donald Trump declared a crime emergency in the nation's capital and ramped...

Macron says Putin 'played' Trump if no agreement for Zelenskyy meeting by Monday
French President Emmanuel Macron said that if there is no agreement for Russia-Ukraine peace talks by President Trump's self-imposed Sept. 1 deadline, then Russian President Vladimir Putin "played" the...

Political Gnosticism Is a Modern Sickness | National Review
The conspiratorial belief that massive hidden systems need to be exposed is gripping left and right. Source link

Hollywood’s School of Hard Knocks | National Review
Bruce Handy provides a flawed but fun survey of a social phenomenon that American pop culture essentially invented: ‘teenagerhood.’ Source link

The Risk in Trump’s Ukraine War Exertions | National Review
Are America’s interests truly being served in the president’s diplomatic push? Source link

Seeing France for the First Time | National Review
We never did encounter the legendary rudeness and scorn of Parisians, one of many pleasant surprises and unexpected insights. Source link

The Worst of Woke, Courtesy of the Smithsonian | National Review
Good and bad news in the White House’s push for more balance and less bile. Source link

Gallipoli at 110 | National Review
Instead of diverting German resources to the south and shortening the war, it exhausted the Allies and extended it. Source link

Appeals court strikes down Trump's tariff power in major decision
A federal appeals court ruled many of President Trump's tariffs are illegal, dealing a potentially crippling blow to his trade agenda. Source link

Appeals court finds Trump's sweeping tariffs unconstitutional but leaves them in place for now
A federal appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump had no legal right to impose sweeping tariffs but left in place for now his effort to build a...

Racist sign prompts BET co-founder Robert Johnson to give Winsome Earle-Sears' campaign $500K
Robert L. Johnson, the billionaire co-founder of Black Entertainment Television, has donated $500,000 to Virginia Lt. Governor Winsome-Sears' gubernatorial campaign after she was targeted by a racist sign at...