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  • Political Polling: How Do They Keep Getting It Wrong?
    With 73 days until the November 3 midterm elections, the country is heading toward the polls with less reliable information about the electorate than at any point in modern memory  and the failures of the past 20 months have come from opposite directions. In August alone, a fabricated poll in the Los Angeles mayoral race…
  • Blakeman Closes to 10 Points on Hochul But the Poll That Moved Changed Its Own Rules
    Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman has cut Gov. Kathy Hochul’s lead in the New York governor’s race to 10 points, according to the Siena College Research Institute survey released Aug. 12- down from a 20-point gap in the same pollster’s June measurement. The 10-point figure has driven a week of coverage framing the contest as…
  • 786,000 to One: How America’s Citizen-to-Representative Ratio Quietly Became One of the Worst in the Developed World
    The Democratic Socialists of America released a national program in July 2026 called “Workers Deserve More,” and buried inside the coverage of its more incendiary planks is a structural argument that deserves a hearing on its own terms: the platform calls for expanding the House of Representatives, implementing proportional representation and ranked-choice voting, and abolishing…
  • Egg Recalls and the Vaccine America Approved but Won’t Use
     Introduction On July 22, 2026, Midwest Poultry Services, L.P. pulled 1,589,577 dozen shell eggs  roughly 19 million eggs  off the market because they might be carrying Salmonella Enteritidis. Three weeks later, the Food and Drug Administration upgraded that recall to Class I, its most severe designation, meaning the agency believes eating the product could reasonably…
  • Grades Rise as Reading and Math Proficiency Falls: Nashville’s Grade-Change Allegations and the Accountability Gap
    On Tuesday, Aug. 12, Metro Nashville Public Schools leaders presented state test data to the district’s board and described some of the highest academic achievement levels the district has recorded since Tennessee adopted more rigorous standards. Social studies proficiency in grades 3 through 8 rose 4.1 percentage points to 42.1 percent. Superintendent Adrienne Battle called…
  • Number of U.S. Homebuyers Falls to Record Low as Sellers Outnumber Them by Half a Million
    The number of Americans actively shopping for a home fell to the lowest level on record in July, according to data released Aug. 13 by the real estate brokerage Redfin, leaving roughly half a million more sellers than buyers in the U.S. housing market. Redfin estimated there were about 966,752 buyers in the market in…
  • After 9/11, Congress Made Flight Schools Vet Foreign Students. Drone Schools Were Never Included.
    Introduction Twenty-two months after the September 11 attacks, Congress wrote a rule into law that still governs American flight instruction. Under Section 612 of the Vision 100 – Century of Aviation Reauthorization Act, an FAA-regulated flight school may not train a foreign student until the federal government has determined the student poses no threat to…
  • The Governor’s Race Isn’t the Race: Why Trump Came to Garden City
    President Donald Trump landed on Long Island Friday afternoon for remarks at the Nassau County Police Academy Center for Training and Intelligence in Garden City, joined by Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel. The stated purpose was public safety: a tour of county law enforcement facilities and an announcement built around preliminary…
  • The Great Equalizer Comes Home: Cheap Drones, Crowded Skies, and No Way to Tell Friend From Foe
    Over eleven weeks this summer, the FBI seized more than 700 drones  the largest federal drone enforcement operation in American history. Agents worked restricted airspace around World Cup stadiums in eleven cities, tracked operators to their homes, and filed federal charges. It was, by any measure, the most concentrated counter-drone effort the country has ever…
  • 85 Days Out: The DSA Is on the November Ballot, and Both Parties Think That Helps Them
    Eighty-five days before Americans vote on November 3, the sharpest unresolved question in American politics is not which party controls Congress. It is which faction controls the Democratic Party — and whether the answer costs Democrats the majorities they are otherwise favored to win. The Democratic Socialists of America entered this cycle with two members…
  • Five Months In: Walmart’s Vizio Account Requirement and the Race to Buy Consumer Data
    Since mid-March 2026, Walmart has required owners of select new Vizio televisions to sign in with a Walmart account before they can finish setting up the television or use its smart features. The retailer announced the change on March 23, 2026, at the IAB NewFronts, the annual event where media companies pitch advertisers on the…
  • 14.5 Million Empty Homes, Fewer Than 800,000 for Sale: What LendingTree’s Vacancy Report Actually Says About Prices
    Intro LendingTree released a national housing vacancy study on July 7, 2026, finding that roughly 14.5 million U.S. homes — about one in ten housing units — sit vacant. Florida alone accounts for approximately 1.5 million of them, nearly as many as the other nine states in the top-ten vacancy ranking combined. The headline number…
  • Fauci Invoked the Fifth More Than 100 Times. The Real Fight Is Over Whether His Pardon Let Him.
    Dr. Anthony Fauci sat before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday, July 29, delivered an opening statement, and then said almost nothing else for more than two hours. Under subpoena from committee chairman Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases invoked his…
  • A Rate-Hike Call, a Margin Call, and a $16 Billion Block Trade: What the Citadel–Situational Awareness Timeline Does and Does Not Show
    Within a span of four trading days at the end of July, three things happened in sequence. A senior strategist at Citadel Securities publicly argued that the Federal Reserve should surprise markets with an interest rate increase. The Federal Reserve declined to do so. And Citadel — the hedge fund founded by the same man,…
  • Musk’s Quiet $1 Billion Bet on Power
    Introduction Elon Musk has acquired the assets of APR Energy, a Jacksonville, Florida company that deploys trailer-mounted gas turbines on accelerated timelines. Neither Musk nor APR announced the transaction. It surfaced instead through two regulatory filings — a Federal Trade Commission early termination notice dated May 14, 2026, and a Securities and Exchange Commission disclosure…
  • The Idea Congress Killed in 2003 Is Now a Private Market Worth Billions
    Introduction On July 29, 2003, two U.S. senators walked into a press conference and ended a Pentagon research program in a single news cycle. The program, called the Policy Analysis Market, would have let a small pool of registered traders buy and sell contracts on political and economic events in the Middle East. Within about…
  • 97 Days to the Midterms: The Senate and House Primaries That Haven’t Happened Yet
    Introduction Ninety-nine days remain before the November 3 general election, and the ballot voters will see in most of the country is not finished being written. The 2026 primary season opened March 3 in Texas and North Carolina and does not close until September 15 in Delaware. Between now and then, voters in roughly a…
  • A Socialist Program Meets Article V: What Would Actually Have to Happen
    Introduction On Sunday, July 26, Democratic Socialists of America national co-chair Megan Romer sat for a rapid true-or-false round with Fox News Sunday host Shannon Bream and affirmed, one after another, the most structurally ambitious planks in her organization’s new national program: abolishing the U.S. Senate, replacing the presidency and the Supreme Court, abolishing Immigration…
  • Cities Are Dropping Flock’s Cameras. Many Are Replacing Them With Axon’s.
    Intro City councils from Syracuse to Denver have spent the past year voting down contracts with Flock Safety, the Atlanta company whose automated license plate readers became the most visible symbol of American street-level surveillance. Activists have called the votes a privacy victory. In a growing number of those cities, the poles did not stay…
  • No Terms of Service for Your Face: The Constitution Never Wrote Down a Right to Privacy, and Data Intelligence Found the Gap
    Consumers understand the bargain they strike with Verizon, Google and Alexa. No equivalent agreement exists between a driver and a license plate camera, or between a shopper and a facial recognition system — and the Constitution never named the right that would fill the gap. Americans click “I agree” constantly. Verizon’s customer agreement, Google’s terms…
  • While Antisemitism Grows, Churches Are Burning — and Barely Anyone Is Watching
    There is a fire spreading through New York City’s houses of worship, and most of the country has not noticed. On the night of July 9, a man walked up to Iglesia Bautista El Mesias on 75th Street in Queens, stood on the sidewalk outside the church fence, lit a Molotov cocktail, and hurled it…
  • From #21 to #3: How UnitedHealth Became the Biggest Winner of the Obamacare Era
    When President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law in March 2010, the promise was affordable coverage for millions of Americans who lacked it. Sixteen years later, roughly 20 million more people do have insurance — but the clearest financial winner of the Obamacare era is not a patient, a hospital, or a taxpayer….
  • New Jersey Counted 6,600 Noncitizen Voters — But Only the Ones Who Told the Truth
    New Jersey handed the national election fight a gift this week, and it took the federal government barely a day to unwrap it. On July 21, Governor Mikie Sherrill announced that roughly 6,600 noncitizens had been mistakenly registered to vote through the state’s Motor Vehicle Commission, and that fewer than 400 had cast ballots before…
  • Elections, Politics and Data Hypocrisy
    Two of the loudest election fights in Washington right now look, at first glance, like separate stories. In one, House Republicans have passed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act — the SAVE Act — which would require documentary proof of citizenship to register for federal elections. In the other, the Department of Justice has demanded…
  • 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…