Blowing up innocent fishermen hasn’t curbed the drug trade. Ad Policy Donald Trump boards Air Force One on July 27, 2026. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images) On January 19, Carlos Mero, the captain of an Ecuadoran fishing boat named La Fiorella, called his wife on an emergency line and expressed his alarm at seeing “American…
In 2018, Abdul El-Sayed ran for governor in Michigan. He had a resume full of credentials including stints at the University of Michigan, Oxford, and Columbia for medical school — but no political experience. He conducted a Bernie-style progressive campaign against Gretchen Whitmer but found himself stonewalled by the political establishment and powerful interest groups….
The struggle over how to make housing more affordable has riven the American left for several years now. The fight roughly divides into two camps. One, known as the YIMBYs (yes in my backyard) or Abundance movement (taken from the best-selling Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson book), argues for the market as the ultimate solution….
A last-ditch legislative attempt to help California school districts keep problematic teachers out of the classroom has collapsed following opposition from unions and the state teacher licensing agency that a proposed searchable database would violate privacy and subject educators to unfair treatment. The proposed database, introduced by a Democratic member of the State Assembly in…
Ad Policy Peru’s President Keiko Fujimori following her inauguration ceremony in Lima on July 28, 2026. (Connie France / AFP via Getty Images) American Prestige HQ is seriously considering upgrading the video content to IMAX. In this week’s news: The US and Iran resume strikes after a brief pause (3:25); Gaza talks are close to…
Ella Langley’s mournful country ballad “Choosin’ Texas” has broken record after record, sitting atop national and international charts for weeks in a row. The Rolling Stone pick for song of the summer is an easy earworm about love, loss, and the Lone Star State, but some on the right are hearing their own favorite tune:…
In many ways, the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran and the war in Gaza that preceded it seem transformative. After decades of shadow warfare, Iran and Israel have now attacked each other’s homelands directly. And Israel and the United States have joined forces in a genuinely novel way to wage war against Iran. The Islamic Republic…
By the end of 2020, Kentucky’s newly elected Gov. Andy Beshear had one goal above all others: Keep people alive. The state was battling two merciless threats. COVID-19 was killing hundreds of people each month, and deadly drug overdoses were among the highest in the nation. Calling addiction a disease that breeds in isolation, Beshear…
Society / StudentNation / July 30, 2026 The student press is facing a growing wave of censorship and institutional obstruction Ad Policy College newspapers like The Harvard Crimson have broken stories of national import. But increasingly, the student press is being stifled. (Mel Musto / Bloomberg via Getty Images) This story was produced for StudentNation,…
