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. It is UnitedHealth Group, the...
October 23, 2026
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 the error was caught. Within...
The Hidden Tax on Every Ad You Run
Ask a small business owner what an ad costs and they’ll quote you a number: the monthly spend, maybe a cost-per-click or a cost-per-lead if their vendor bothered to calculate it. That number is on the invoice. It’s clean, it’s budgeted, and it’s almost completely beside the point. The real cost of running paid ads shows up somewhere the invoice...
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 copies of statewide voter registration...
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 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...
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...
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 jurisdictions in the country. One would require families to register with their school district each year. One would require them to submit a curriculum aligned with state standards and an annual portfolio evaluated by a third party. One would require...
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 that operates as a professional ticket reseller and has sold tickets on StubHub since 2008, according to the company’s filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The relationship, along with a separate arrangement in which StubHub refers sellers to...
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 than $1.5 trillion to U.S. gross domestic product in 2024 — over 5 percent of the entire economy — while paying little or no federal income tax on most of what they earn. That scale has moved the sector from...