Jul 18, 2025 – Leonardo da Vinci, the famous Italian polymath who painted the Mona Lisa, had a sophisticated geometric understanding way ahead of his time.To draw the Vitruvian Man in 1490 – an illustration of the 'ideal' human body – the Renaissance man may have relied on a mathematical ratio not formally established until the 19th...

Jul 18, 2025 – Close low-performing, underenrolled schools. Expand high-performing, in-demand schools.This formula has tremendous upside. It’s what cities like New Orleans, Denver and Indianapolis have done to great success. It’s also been a key ingredient behind Florida’s climb up the state achievement rankings.Over the past two decades, Florida has added about 230,000 students, closed...

Jul 18, 2025 – Holy SMOKES.I don't think anyone saw this coming.Bukele just posted this.Today, we have handed over all the Venezuelan nationals detained in our country, accused of being part of the criminal organization Tren de Aragua (TDA). Many of them face multiple charges of murder, robbery, rape, and other serious crimes.As was...

Jul 19, 2025 – On any given morning you can walk into White Pine Café, Store & Lodge in this Potter County village and find comfort in the constant it affords; providing the necessities you need for your home or camp, a lively conversation from a handful of the town elders solving the problems...

Jul 19, 2025 – Iraq will raise shipments of a key crude grade next month, part of an enlarged export program indicating that the OPEC+ nation is boosting its oil production.The Middle East country will lift shipments of destination-free Basrah Medium oil to 17 million to 18 million barrels next month, people with knowledge...

Jul 19, 2025 – This comes just weeks after another major drug bust in Minnesota that also uncovered around 900 pounds of crystal meth just south of Minneapolis, Minnesota.Acting U.S. Attorney Joseph Thompson said in a statement:“A 900-pound haul like this doesn’t just show intent to… pic.twitter.com/Djestp5ajJ— Dustin Grage (@GrageDustin) July 19, 2025

Jul 19, 2025 – It’s hard not to notice when Michael Mann’s name appears in the author list of a climate paper—after all, he’s about as synonymous with climate alarm as Al Gore is with PowerPoint slides. One could say spotting his name in a paper about “intensification of the strongest nor’easters” is like...

Jul 19, 2025 – #BREAKING A vehicle rammed into a crowd of people waiting to enter a nightclub along a busy boulevard in Los Angeles early Saturday, injuring 30 people. pic.twitter.com/pY6C8L851O— LiveNOW from FOX (@livenowfox) July 19, 2025

Jul 19, 2025 – he first hundred days of the second Trump presidency have brought unprecedented challenges to the complacent status quo of American higher education. It has begun to dawn on university administrators and faculty alike that the Trump administration is serious about its plans to break the hold of illiberal progressives (a.k.a....

Jul 19, 2025 – Right now, there’s a lot of angst in certain corners about the Trump administration’s attempt to downsize the federal bureaucracy. I say “certain corners” because I don’t think this concern is widely held by American voters, but since I live in a Washington, D.C. suburb there’s a lot of anguished...

Jul 19, 2025 – In an age when political authenticity is currency, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is making a risky bet: that he can repackage his image from slick, left-coast progressive into pragmatic, media-savvy moderate.Newsom’s strategy appears engineered to break out of the coastal liberal mold. His new iHeartRadio podcast, “This Is Gavin Newsom,”...

Jul 19, 2025 – In 2024, prices jumped a whopping 800% at PJM Interconnection, a “traffic controller” part of the grid that provides service in 13 states as well as D.C. For context, PJM operates the largest power grid in the U.S., with around 67 million customers—that’s more than 20% of the American population.Here’s...

Jul 19, 2025 – President Donald Trump abruptly reversed course earlier this month when he decided to send Patriot missiles, along with other possibly offensive weaponry, to Ukraine, provided that European nations pay the United States for them. Trump also announced that he would place 100 per cent tariffs on Russia if, after 50...

Jul 20, 2025 – Democrats bemoaning the loss of Medicaid coverage are glossing over a critical fact: States could fund the program themselves if they wanted to. The truth is, Medicaid is not nearly as popular as the taxes needed to keep it afloat.There is a lot to complain about Trump’s One Big Beautiful...

Jul 19, 2025 – Now that the Big Beautiful bill has passed, Republicans in Congress want to extend the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) of 2017 while at the same time not adding more $trillions to the national debt. The Congressional Budget Office has found that extending the tax cuts would probably stimulate the economy...

Jul 19, 2025 – In a discovery shedding light on prehistoric human conflict, archaeologists have found a flint arrowhead embedded in a human rib dating back more than 4,000 years. The remains were unearthed at Roc de les Orenetes, a high-altitude collective burial site in the Catalan Pyrenees (northeast Spain), situated over 1,800 meters above sea...

Jul 20, 2025 – The Muslim Brotherhood, one of the Arab world’s oldest and most influential Islamist movements, has been implicated in a wide-ranging network of illegal financial activities in Jordan and abroad, according to a new investigative report.Investigations conducted by Jordanian authorities — along with evidence gathered from seized materials — revealed that the...

Jul 20, 2025 – As has been rumored all week, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard began releasing documents this afternoon related to intelligence community shenanigans committed in the waning days of Barack Obama’s presidency, before and after the 2016 presidential election. It’s damning stuff that exposes the Trump-Russia hysteria as a complete and utter fake,...

Jul 20, 2025 – One day before the deadline, the U.S. government has issued a refusal of new international health regulations that dramatically expand the World Health Organization’s international powers.The WHO’s 2024 amendments to International Health Regulations – adopted by the organization’s highest decision-making body, the World Health Assembly – were set to become...

Jul 19, 2025 – NPR and PBS were once one-stop shops for news and wholesome programs for families. The kids could watch "Sesame Street" while their parents listened to "All Things Considered."But now NPR and, to a lesser extent, PBS have become a cesspool of liberal bias that taxpayers have been forced to fund.From...

Jul 20, 2025 – NPR and PBS were once one-stop shops for news and wholesome programs for families. The kids could watch "Sesame Street" while their parents listened to "All Things Considered."But now NPR and, to a lesser extent, PBS have become a cesspool of liberal bias that taxpayers have been forced to fund.From...

Jul 19, 2025 – Congratulations, California, you just lost another one!The latest frustrated Californian to decide to up and go is In-N-Out owner and President Lynsi Snyder, who said that the state just can't cut it anymore. "There's a lot of great things about California, but raising a family is not easy here," Snyder said during a...

Jul 20, 2025 – The European Union is offering Democrat-led states a cautionary tale in how to hamstring an entire economy in the name of green dogma — while failing to solve climate change.Blue states are sending delegates to Europe to learn how to implement climate policies, egged on by progressive think-tanks. But Europe,...

Jul 20, 2025 – In this episode of The Miller Report: Real Clear Journalism, Maggie Miller is joined by Ana Kasparian to break down her latest investigation into Los Angeles’ ballooning police overtime budget—and the unintended fallout from efforts to defund the LAPD. Despite cutting thousands of officers since 2020, the city is now spending...

Jul 21, 2025 – The great movies, directors, actors, and writers of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s produced what has since been called the Golden Era of Hollywood. Technological advances, especially sound and color, also contributed. Scripts came from great novels and works of history, and from compelling stories serialized in magazines. One of...