The Porsche 911 Gets an Electric Boost
To the untrained eye the Turbo S looks like just another 911, but with a hybrid powertrain, it’s the fastest, most powerful, most luxurious road car in the lineup.
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Friday, October 31, 2025
Thursday, October 30, 2025
Winston Churchill's observation that when you are young and not on the left you have no heart and when you are old and not on the right you have no brain remains true today in New York's mayor campaign
How a Small Elite College in Maine Influenced Mamdani’s World View
The mayoral candidate has said his education at Bowdoin College was formative. But critics say that his degree exemplifies how colleges steep students in leftist dogma.
Oregon's River Restoration is going to spread
A River Restoration in Oregon Gets Fast Results: The Salmon Swam Right Back
The fish had been missing from the headwaters of the Klamath River for more than a century. Just a year after the removal of a final dam, they’ve returned.
Tuesday, October 28, 2025
The Major Questions Doctrine may be applied against Trump's tarriffs after the court invoked the doctrine to deny aggressive regulatory initiatives by the Biden administration.
Will Trump’s Tariffs Survive Supreme Court’s ‘Major Questions’ Test?
The justices used the doctrine, a judicially created method of reading statutes, to thwart several major Biden programs.
Reporting from Washington
IEEPA tariffs are rewriting US trade law without Congress.
Why Are Cato Trade Scholars Writing to the Supreme Court?
President Trump and his administration have made fantastical claims in both legal filings and in public about supposed calamities that would befall the nation’s economy and foreign policy if the Court were to strike down the president’s ability to impose tariffs under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). As my Cato colleagues Colin Grabow, Clark Packard, and I explain in our brief, the administration’s claims—including that an adverse decision would bring about another “1929-style” depression, bankrupt the US government, and leave the United States at the mercy of foreign adversaries—are groundless. Yet we worried that their repeated utterance—and a lack of correction from people who know better—risked shifting the Court’s attention away from the legal arguments that should dictate the cases’ outcome, misinforming the Court about the IEEPA tariffs’ effects, and manufacturing public outrage in response to a Court ruling against them.
So, we felt compelled to respond in an official amicus filing.
As we explain in the brief, the government’s policy claims are not only inaccurate but also ridiculous. Our arguments—citing decades of US trade policy and history and reams of economic analysis—show that the president’s ability to impose tariffs under IEEPA is, contrary to the government’s assertions, not essential for 1) negotiating and finalizing trade agreements; 2) imposing so-called “reciprocal” tariffs; 3) conducting US foreign policy; 4) reversing the nation’s fiscal trajectory; 5) preventing a US economic collapse; 6) blocking retaliation by foreign governments against US trade and investment; or 7) restoring American manufacturing and the defense industrial base. We also explain that, again contrary to the government’s claims, 8) IEEPA tariff refunds need not be administratively difficult; 9) the government would not be obligated to repay foreign investment commitments; and 10) the IEEPA tariffs are rewriting US trade law without Congress.
Sunday, October 26, 2025
Pixie
Dear Diary:
As a recent college graduate from Michigan living on Bleecker Street, I suffered from New York City impostor syndrome. No matter how I struggled to master the confidence “real” New Yorkers exude, my Midwesternness hung over my shoulders like a sandwich board.
One evening, I passed a man with a Rottweiler standing on the steps of a walk-up near my building.
“Cool dog,” I said, cringing inwardly.
“This is Pixie,” the man said. “She’s a sweetheart. Want to hang out with her for a while?”
“OK, sure,” I stammered.
He tossed me the leash, hurried up the steps and vanished into the building.
Utterly unfazed at having a strange woman at the other end of her lead, Pixie yawned and flopped onto the pavement, her massive chest on my feet.
I sat down too. Tentatively, I patted her head.
“Cool dog,” a man passing by said.
“This is Pixie,” I said.
“Is she friendly?” the man’s companion asked.
“She’s a sweetheart,” I replied.
Before long, it had happened again. And again.
We settled into a pattern, Pixie and I. She thumped her tail to all while I made introductions and assured strangers of her gentle disposition.
It gradually dawned on me that nobody knew this wasn’t my dog. Pixie, every ounce the streetwise urban canine, was making me look like a bona fide New Yorker.
My next thought was: What if her owner never returns?
Just then, he jogged down the steps, thanked me and grabbed the leash.
I gave Pixie one last wistful pat and continued along Thompson Street, an impostor once again.
— Kathy Passero
Friday, October 24, 2025
Students are completely aware that they are not being educated; they are simply players in a cynical indoctrination game. At Northwestern and the University of Michigan, 88 percent of students told researchers that they pretend to be more progressive than they are because they think it will help them succeed academically or socially. I saw exactly this kind of performative dishonesty while covering the Soviet Union years ago.
The Rot Creeping Into Our Minds
Opinion Columnist
I'm not sure Brooks is describing something new. I recall my freshman year UNC Chapel Hill political science course that was a left wing diatribe against my right wing Bill Buckley National Review upbringing. But it stuck with me because as Winston Churchill commented if you are young and not on the left you have no heart and if you are old and not on the right you have no brain.
Thursday, October 23, 2025
Colleges Face a Reckoning: Is a Degree Really Necessary?
Colleges Face a Reckoning: Is a Degree Really Necessary?
Wyoming is one of many states that embraced a campaign to encourage more people to enroll in higher education. Some leaders and students wonder if they reached a limit.
Reporting from Cheyenne, Wyo.
Wednesday, October 22, 2025
“Millions of American students are still going to school, teachers are getting paid, and schools are operating as normal,” Ms. McMahon posted on social media last week. “It confirms what the President has said: the federal Department of Education is unnecessary, and we should return education to the states.”
Tuesday, October 21, 2025
My Mediterranean Food exporters are hoping the Supreme Court asserts the Congress's exclusive import tariff power back to the Congress primarily for one reason, constancy! Because business contracts as Donald Trump knows require months and in some case years to complete and his erratic one day this and the next day that decision making just stops commerce.
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