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...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...