Top bitcoin miners have launched a new nonprofit organization focused on educating and galvanizing voters around that digital asset and the broader cryptocurrency space. The miners — from Riot Platforms, Marathon Digital Holdings, and CleanSpark — registered the Bitcoin Voter Project as a nonpartisan 501(c)(4), meaning it can’t primarily support a specific candidate or political […]
After decades of war, the United States is pivoting away from the Middle East, gearing itself for great power competition with China and Russia. But recent events bring to mind Al Pacino’s famous line from Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part III: “Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in.” And […]
Even though I’m a religious person, I’ve always had a soft spot for a certain kind of cantankerous atheist. And although I’d never let myself be yoked with an unbeliever, I’ve always had a bit of an “older man” crush on Bill Maher. Maybe it’s the way his eyes crease when he tells a particularly […]
With primary provisions of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act set to expire come 2025, either President Joe Biden or President Donald Trump will face a showdown in Congress to extend the tax cuts or let them die. But the former president has reportedly teased a plan to entirely sidestep this dilemma over his […]
Former Kentucky sheriff’s deputy Tanner M. Abbott was found guilty in March of violating the constitutional rights of several people he arrested while working as a police officer in the Bluegrass State. On Thursday, he was sentenced to 110 months in prison. Abbot, 31, was convicted on five felonies and one misdemeanor charge for incidents […]
Senate Democrats facing tough reelections this November are struggling to take a side on whether women should be required to register for the military draft. The controversial provision was included by Democrats in the annual defense bill known as the National Defense Authorization Act, which was recently advanced by the Senate Armed Services Committee. Several […]
The Biden administration on Friday announced a new $860 million grant program to reduce methane emissions within the oil and gas sector, the latest in the administration’s push to curb emissions of the greenhouse gas, which is 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide. The grant funding will be available to a broad range of […]
Patagonia’s private foundation, which is under fire due to a Washington Examiner report on its funding of a Palestinian terrorism-linked group, directed millions of dollars to a left-wing dark money network behind pro-Hamas activism across the United States. Over the last decade, Patagonia’s foundation in California has sent more than $17 million combined to the Tides Foundation and the Tides Center, a pair of affiliated nonprofit groups […]
We are for the most part not blessed to live in the era of giants. The greatest of all times in their fields — Michelangelo in sculpture, Shakespeare in drama, Homer (or Dante) in poetry, Raphael in painting, Beethoven in music — all lived hundreds (and in some cases thousands) of years ago. Long gone […]
Democrats are bringing an 1873 law that bans the mailing of abortion-related materials into the spotlight as the party makes access to the procedure central to their election messaging. The Comstock Act was enacted to ban people from sending anything “obscene, lewd or lascivious” in the mail, including “any article or thing designed or intended […]
