By Timothy Sekerak, Contributor Daily Caller News Foundation | March 24, 2025 Multiple high-profile influencers associated with Make America Great Again (MAGA) have been accused of taking payments to oppose the Health and Human Services (HHS) initiative to remove soda from food stamps. This debacle started Saturday when a thread on
By David Gortler via The Daily Signal | March 24, 2025 While the Food and Drug Administration has finally taken steps to close a regulatory loophole regarding “poppers” and amyl nitrate, at the 11th hour, right before President Donald Trump’s FDA commissioner has taken office, it hasn’t advanced significant
By Adam Dick, The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity | March 19, 2025 A repugnant tactic of authoritarianism is categorizing people’s desire for or exercise of freedom as illness that government should suppress. An example of this was the deeming of dissidents in the Soviet Union as mentally
By Jarrett Stepman, The Daily Signal | March 17, 2025 The New York Times’ mea culpa about how “we” were misled about the lab leak theory and much else during the COVID-19 lockdowns is a day late, a dollar short, and outright insulting to the people who were right from the
By James Bovard via Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity | March 15, 2025 Five years ago, politicians and bureaucrats went berserk and pointlessly ravaged Americans’ freedom. The Covid-19 pandemic provided the pretext to destroy hundreds of thousands of businesses, padlock churches, close down schools, and effectively place hundreds of
By Shashi Tharoor - Project Syndicate | Mar 17, 2025 The US administration’s plan to impose “reciprocal” import tariffs could severely curtail key Indian exports, including chemicals, metals, auto parts, and pharmaceuticals, leading to job losses and undermining fiscal stability. India has little choice but to lower its own tariffs
By Robert McGreevy, Daily Caller News Foundation | March 12, 2025 Lobbyists from the American Beverage Association (ABA) descended on West Virginia’s state Capitol building Tuesday in an attempt to thwart a bill that would ban synthetic food dyes, lawmakers told the Daily Caller. National lobbyists, who rarely, if ever,
By Joshua Mawhorter, Mises Wire | March 13, 2025 As a history teacher and an economist, it never ceases to amaze me at the success of certain historical myths (in this case, defined as verifiably untrue beliefs) have come to dominate popular understanding. Often it seems that no presentation of facts
By Emily Kopp, Daily Caller News Foundation | March 12, 2025 The German government for years concealed an assessment by its Foreign Intelligence Service that a lab origin of COVID-19 was overwhelmingly likely, according to a Tuesday investigative report by two German newspapers. The investigation, published jointly by Die Zeit and
By Robert McGreevy, Daily Caller News Foundation | March 13, 2025 The White House pulled former Republican Florida Rep. Dave Weldon’s nomination to become the next Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), leading skeptical Republicans to express surprise at the move. Weldon, a physician and former
By Emily Kopp, Daily Caller News Foundation | March 13, 2025 A Democratic member of Congress has emerged as a vocal defender of the status quo at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and is the son of scientists connected to the embattled government agency. Rep. Jake Auchincloss of Massachusetts expressed
By Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell, The Daily Signal | March 13, 2025 Seattle Children’s Hospital renamed its diversity, equity, and inclusion programs to circumvent President Donald Trump’s directives, a whistleblower tells The Daily Signal. On Day One of his presidency, Trump signed an executive order to terminate “diversity, equity, and
By Todd G. Buchholz - Project Syndicate | March 13, 2025 Enormous progress has often been made during periods of crisis. That may well be true in the United States, as factors related to health, information, and power – namely, GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic, the democratization of knowledge, and a dramatic decline
By Robert Moffit, The Daily Signal | March 12, 2025 This is the final piece in an eight-article series on “Restoring Trust in Public Health: Lessons from COVID-19.” Four years of the Biden-Harris administration has left Americans rightly skeptical of public health institutions. This series highlights key findings from several congressional
By Debra Saunders via The Daily Signal | March 11, 2025 When Stanford epidemiologist Jay Bhattacharya challenged COVID-19 lockdown orthodoxy in 2020, critics glued posters of his face across the campus–which he saw as an incitement to violence–and colleagues tried to marginalize him for spreading misinformation. It didn’t
By Robert Moffit via The Daily Signal | March 10, 2025 This is the seventh in an eight-article series on “Restoring Trust in Public Health: Lessons from COVID-19.” Four years of the Biden-Harris administration has left Americans rightly skeptical of public health institutions. This series highlights key findings from several congressional
