Outgoing Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard was once a prominent member of the Democratic Party. She fiercely defended Bernie Sanders during his 2016 campaign, ran on a progressive platform in 2020 and served as the representative for Hawaii’s second congressional district. But in 2022, she declared her exit from the Democratic party due to its abandoning of liberal values, attacks on free speech, wokeness, and her characterization of the organization as a bunch of hawkish warmongerers on foreign policy. Since then, she has campaigned for numerous political candidates endorsed by Trump, culminating in her joining the GOP during…

Recently in the United Kingdom, the Online Safety Act’s passage has implemented a prohibition on the use of social media for minors under the age of 16. But, is this bill really about digital safety, or rather, control? To enforce this, social media platforms will be forced to collect identities of those registering for accounts, which even includes facial scans of users. Giving social media and big tech companies access to our personal information, no matter how well-intentioned, only makes 24/7 surveillance of people on the internet easier for the government to implement, severely eroding our privacy. Furthermore, parental control…

Standardized tests, primarily the SAT and ACT, are taken by millions of students every year in preparation for college admissions, which have historically used those scores to evaluate academic performance due to differences in curricula and grading systems between the thousands of school districts in the country. Over the past decade, however, many of the most prominent universities, such as the ones in the Ivy League and University of California system, have dropped the requirement for standardized test scores to be submitted with applications. These decisions have widely been made out of a desire to increase diversity of admitted students…

The murder of Henry Nowak, accompanied by the heinous response of the police officers at the scene, has received little attention from media outlets and left-wing activists in the past week, despite being a horrific instance of actual police brutality. Nowak, an 18 year old Polish man living in the United Kingdom, was brutally stabbed with a dagger by an older Sikh Indian man in Southampton on December 3rd, 2025. The attacker’s brother then called the police to falsely report Nowak had racially abused him, and when the police showed up, they were quick to take the side of the…

It’s no secret that American public schools are in dire need of improvement. In the past decade, the vast majority of public schools have seen declines in student test scores across core subjects which have only accelerated since the pandemic despite a massive increase in school budgets per student in the 21st century, as well as in employee headcounts. But a closer analysis of these trends hints that it’s not how much funding or hiring that determines student success, but rather who gets hired at the taxpayer’s expense. And with a stagnant public school student population, why are more staff…

Each election cycle, there are fears that third party candidates will “spoil” one of the major candidates’ victories due to the dominance of plurality voting. As a result, many localities in Democratic states use ranked choice voting (RCV), and several Republican-dominated Southern states have used runoff elections for decades. These systems can mitigate spoiler effects, but they fail to fully satisfy Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives (IIA). Many states have banned RCV due to the expensive process of counting its complex ballots, which also applies to cardinal voting systems. Even if voting machines were perfect and timely, Arrow’s Impossibility Theorem states…

Respect for our veterans is not just waving our flag or saluting them. Tens of thousands of veterans are homeless, and health conditions resulting from their deployments are a major cause of their status. These include PTSD, depression, and limb loss, which send many down spirals of drug or substance abuse and hinder their ability to find employment. And with healthcare costs at all-time highs, a significant portion of veterans struggle to afford treatment or are even denied care from the Department of Veterans Affairs.  But taking care of our veterans is too expensive on taxpayers, what is not? The…

An Increasingly Digital World Results in Fewer Payments Involving Cash; Wikimedia Commons With an increasingly digital and globalized financial system, countries around the world are preparing for the implementation of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC). Only a few central banks have implemented them so far, but many more—including the Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, and Bank of England—are actively researching and developing them. Although the vast majority of currency in circulation is already stored in databases rather than physical bank vaults or wallets, this digital financial network is far from centralized. Commercial banks individually manage their databases and payment networks,…

Despite its incredible efficiency and low cost per watt of output, it has only taken three disasters to cripple public support for nuclear energy. However, a closer look at these catastrophes suggests that they were exceptions, not the pattern, of the stability and safety of nuclear power plants. The accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979 only involved a reactor failure, and excess radiation was contained by the plant’s sound structure. The Fukushima Plant’s destruction was the result of its construction on a geologically active zone. In both situations, virtually no deaths resulted from leaked radiation.  Most infamously,…

During Trump’s second presidency, Republican Representative Thomas Massie has frequently come under fire from members of his own party, despite being one of the most conservative members of congress. Although Massie holds a similar view with most of his Republican colleagues on abortion, gun control, and illegal immigration, his stance on other issues have caused President Trump to endorse his challenger in the upcoming Kentucky primary election. Massie’s “no” vote on the Big Beautiful Bill, his efforts to release the Epstein files, and non-interventionist stance on foreign policy issues have been the main reasons for attacks on him by fellow…