The stock market has not seemed thrilled with President Trump’s seemingly erratic approach to tariffs. Both the S&P and the NASDAQ are down about 5.5% since some tariffs on Mexico and Canada went into effect earlier this month. The President...
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Fri, 14 Mar 2025 02:16:14 +0000For nearly five years, entrepreneur Bryan Johnson has been attempting that feat of which magicians and daredevils have boasted throughout history: defying death. In 2021, Johnson launched “Project Blueprint,” an anti-aging initiative with the eventual goal of equipping a human...
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Fri, 14 Mar 2025 02:12:13 +0000Hop in the time machine and hit the “Way Back” button for 1948. Upon arriving, you will find that a hot topic of the day was the founding of what would be called the State of Israel. And into the...
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Fri, 14 Mar 2025 02:05:26 +0000During his speech at the Munich Security Conference, Vice President JD Vance summarized a European totalitarian impulse that has been festering for years but has only recently become prominent in American political discourse. The United Kingdom now arrests citizens for...
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Fri, 14 Mar 2025 02:05:24 +0000The stock market of late has been on a veritable roller coaster, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues to ruffle feathers, Iran marches ever harrowingly closer to a nuclear weapon, and Russia and Ukraine get tantalizingly close to...
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Fri, 14 Mar 2025 02:05:22 +0000I’m writing this installment of the 5QT on a Thursday afternoon, one day before we’re supposed to see a showdown in the U.S. Senate over a 99-page continuing resolution covering federal spending between now and September. Nobody on the Right...
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Fri, 14 Mar 2025 02:05:19 +0000Melania Trump began her reprise as first lady in a manner that was altogether confusing. At the inauguration, she donned a hat with a brim so broad that it was shocking. It hid the top half of her head to...
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Thu, 13 Mar 2025 19:49:32 +0000“The issue is not the issue,” went a mantra popular 58 years ago when activists shut down Columbia University and held several administrators hostage. Was the protest about a falsely labeled “segregated” gymnasium, the school’s connections to the Department of...
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Thu, 13 Mar 2025 19:33:16 +0000Of course you know who Dylan Mulvaney is, but in case the name has floated free in your mind from the image, let me remind you: this is the young man whom Anheuser-Busch used just under a year ago to...
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