The U.S. naval blockade of Iran is frequently described as a total maritime cutoff. By the U.S. military’s own definition, it is not. It covers Iran’s southern coastline the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman and nothing else. Iran has a second coastline. It runs roughly 650 kilometers along the southern shore of the...
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...
In April, senior U.S. officials predicted that a naval blockade would fill Iran’s oil storage tanks within days and force the country to shut in its wells. Four months later, Iran is still producing roughly 2.5 million barrels per day. What happened between the prediction and the outcome is a case study in how a...
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...
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...
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...
A study published this summer in the peer-reviewed journal Geophysical Research Letters found that Europe’s summers have warmed faster than comparable regions of the Northern Hemisphere in large part because the continent cleaned up its air. Within days, the finding had been rewritten in the British press as evidence that heatwaves are “caused by fall...
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...
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...
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...