The California Department of Education reports that in the 2021-2022 school year, there were more than 10,000 teaching vacancies in the state. 

Sanctions have become very fashionable in the United States, which currently imposes them on over 15,000 individuals and entities, three times more than anyone else, in 20 countries with 2.5 billion people, i.e., 31% of all humans on planet Earth. From use sparingly in Cuba (since 1962) to Iran (1979), sanctions have proliferated this century and exploded under the Biden Administration.[1] Given their near-total lack of success, why do we continue imposing sanctions and expect a different result?

After an alarmingly bad debate performance and widespread pressure to drop out, President Biden formally announced he would not pursue a second term. Shortly after his announcement, the President endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, and many joined him. 

U.S. lawmakers have an unfair advantage over ordinary Americans when it comes to investing. Many can use their insider knowledge of how the laws and spending bills they make will affect businesses and make a killing in the stock market.

There is a renewed effort to impose a wealth tax on Americans. Several bills in Congress would tax and redistribute wealth supposedly to benefit the poor and “ensure the wealthy pay their fair share,” in the words of President Joe Biden. Biden and U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D–Mass.) have offered the most widely discussed proposals for taxing wealth.

California-based company Diamond Shruumz was once one of the premier providers of microdosing products in the US. Providing “artisanal chocolates… designed for creative souls,” Diamond Shruumz offered chocolate bars, ice cream cones, gummies, and other sweets with trace amounts of psilocybin- the psychedelic found in magic mushrooms. 

The Associated Press explained what had happened in France’s parliamentary elections in the eighteenth paragraph of its July 8 story: “Rather than rallying behind [President Emmanuel] Macron,” AP reported, “millions took the vote as an opportunity to vent anger about inflation, crime, immigration and other grievances.” 

A romantic view of democracy depicts democratic governments as accountable to their citizens and acting in their citizens’ interests. An alternative view of democratic governments—and all governments—is that they are run by an elite few and act to further the interests of the elite.

The scale of fraud against U.S. taxpayers during the coronavirus pandemic amounts to billions, possibly even trillions of dollars. Count the Internal Revenue Service among the government agencies that enabled the frauds that were perpetrated. The numbers aren’t small, as Reason’s J.D. Tucille reports:

The benches cleared in the ninth inning at Baltimore’s Camden Yards on July 12 after Yankees closer Clay Holmes hit Orioles batter Hester Kjerstad in the head with a 97-mph sinker. The pitch struck Kjerstad’s batting helmet. Not seriously hurt, fortunately, he jumped up immediately from home plate after dropping to the deck in an unsuccessful effort to avoid Holmes’s pitch.