On July 14, 2026, Secretary of State Marco Rubio put the world on notice. Writing in the Wall Street Journal and following up with a State Department declaration of a “whole of government” offensive, he vowed that the United States would “dismantle the ICC — brick by brick, if necessary.” The International Criminal Court, he argued, had grown into “an...
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The Patent on the Cheese Enzyme Expired Years Ago. So Why Does One Company Still Supply Most of the Market?
Introduction Almost everything written about the enzyme in 90% of North American cheese has missed the most consequential fact about it: the patents expired. Fermentation-produced chymosin (FPC), the genetically engineered coagulant developed by Pfizer and approved by the FDA in March 1990, is not protected intellectual property. The foundational patents lapsed years ago. The technology is in the public domain....
City Hall Doesn’t Have a Foreign Policy
A commissioner in New York City’s municipal government put the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran on her official calendar while the United States and Iran were exchanging fire. The State Department found out about it from someone other than the city. The meeting was scrubbed only after federal officials sat down with City Hall to explain, in the...
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Sovereign States Over Globalism: The ICC, Its Expanding Reach, and Why America Says No
On July 14, 2026, Secretary of State Marco Rubio put the world on notice. Writing in the Wall Street Journal...
The Patent on the Cheese Enzyme Expired Years Ago. So Why Does One Company Still Supply Most of the Market?
Introduction Almost everything written about the enzyme in 90% of North American cheese has missed the most consequential fact about...
City Hall Doesn’t Have a Foreign Policy
A commissioner in New York City’s municipal government put the ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran on her official...
NJ Registration, Curriculum Review, and Wellness Checks
TRENTON — Three bills before the New Jersey Legislature would end the state’s status as one of the least-regulated homeschooling...
StubHub’s CEO Is Also a Professional Ticket Reseller
StubHub founder and chief executive Eric Baker is a part owner and managing partner of Andro Capital, an investment fund...
How Much of the U.S. Economy Is Tax-Exempt? Nobody Officially Knows
America’s nonprofit sector is no longer a rounding error in the national economy. Federal data show tax-exempt organizations contributed more...
Iowa’s Rising Cancer Rates Collide With a Federal Order Shielding Glyphosate
Iowa now records the second-highest rate of new cancer diagnoses in the United States, trailing only Kentucky, and is one...
Before Blaming Israel: How the Palestinian Economy Absorbed a Self-Inflicted Blow in the Gulf
It has become a reflex in much commentary on the Palestinian economy to trace its condition to a single source:...