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Commentary For much of “Downton Abbey,” viewers are treated with glorious eye candy of British aristocratic life in a mighty estate, robust at first but fading as the seasons progress. What we are not given is a rationale behind the whole cultural structure of the house and the social order surrounding it. This is particularly important for American audiences who know ...

“There is no life without suffering. There is no love without suffering … You cannot have this perfect hedonistic life. It doesn’t exist, even if advertising, media, and everybody tells you so,” says Eduard Habsburg, the archduke of Austria and Hungary’s ambassador to the Vatican. He is from the royal line of the Habsburgs and author of “The Habsburg Way: ...

The Biden administration may soon finalize regulations on gas-powered home furnaces, restricting consumers’ ability to purchase units found to be outside of the administration’s greenhouse gas emissions goals within the next few months. The regulations proposed by the Department of Energy (DOE) in June 2022 would likely limit consumer choice, increase prices, and have a minimal effect on greenhouse gas ...

Former Vice President Mike Pence entered the 2024 presidential race on June 7 with a video announcement released on Twitter and drenched in religious language and references to the Republican glory days of the 1980s. By doing so, the Indiana native staked his ground as the candidate representing religious faith and the can-do optimism of the Ronald Reagan era. “I ...

LONDON—Oil prices edged higher on Wednesday as Saudi Arabia’s surprise weekend pledge to deepen output cuts outweighed weak Chinese export data. Brent crude futures were up 36 cents, or 0.5 percent, at $76.65 a barrel by 0949 GMT while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude futures gained 37 cents, or 0.5 percent, to $72.11. Both benchmarks jumped more than $1 on ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit against crypto platform, Binance, triggered over $700 million in withdrawals as crypto traders continued to face losses. The SEC filed 13 charges against Binance and its CEO, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, for allegedly participating in an “extensive web of deception” to mislead customers and evade federal regulatory laws. The case against the troubled crypto platform will ...

Software developers based in China are writing the code for TikTok, triggering concerns that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) can access the data of more than one billion users worldwide, as well as force staff to silence dissenting voices, elevate pro-communist narratives, and sow seeds of division in democracies. A code sample seen by the Australian Financial Review shows that ...

Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, is building on his reputation as a tenacious legislator who aggressively chases information and holds government officials to task. Spearheaded by Jordan, the committee is looking into FBI actions that Republicans contend are misdeeds and improper conduct aimed at derailing Donald Trump’s campaigns for president.   To that end, the committee is investigating ...

Commentary Bleeding hearts, that’s the term used to describe the typical liberal. They just feel so much, and are so compassionate, that their hearts bleed for those who are suffering. Well, San Francisco has a surplus of bleeding hearts, which is why the city’s newest program, created to help the homeless, is perfectly named, the Homeless Engagement Assistance Response Team ...

Australian borrowers have been hit with another round of interest rate hikes after the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) raised the official cash rate by 0.25 percent to 4.1 percent, the highest level since April 2012. This comes after a 0.25 percent increase in May and a brief pause in April. In delivering the RBA’s decision, Governor Philip Lowe said ...

Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson released the first episode of his new show on Twitter on Tuesday night, delving into the mysterious destruction of a dam in Ukraine. “As of today, we have come to Twitter, which we hope will be the short wave radio under the blankets,” Carlson stated toward the end of the video. “We’re told there ...

“For capitalism to work, you have to have effectively functioning, solid capital markets. And in order to do that, you need savings—real savings, not money printed by a central bank, but real savings from businesses and households,” says David Stockman, who served as budget director for President Ronald Reagan. “Back then, the public debt was 30-40 percent of GDP—not good, but ...

Commentary When it comes to the creation of powerful platforms, China is best known for TikTok, a highly problematic app that stands accused of being a Trojan horse for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). But WeChat is China’s most sophisticated creation, by far. In many ways, WeChat is a super-app. With over 1 billion users, WeChat is what you get ...

Roughly one-quarter of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who responded to a survey plan to quit their jobs in the coming year, according to Department of Homeland Security Office Inspector General Joseph Cuffari. Cuffari said neither agency has a plan to deal with staffing issues that may arise due to problems cited ...

The House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government holds a hearing on Government Litigation and the Need for Reform at 2:00 p.m. ET on June 6 to “examine and expose how different aspects of government litigation require reform due to rampant and far-reaching misuse.” Witnesses include Kirby West, attorney, Institute for Justice; Andrew Grossman, partner, Baker Hostetler; John ...

Twitter’s new Chief Executive Officer Linda Yaccarino has begun her role at the social media company, she said in a tweet late on Monday, about a month after Elon Musk named her as the new CEO. “It happened—first day in the books!” she posted on Twitter, without providing further details. Yaccarino, the former advertising chief at NBCUniversal, is taking over ...

The United States is unaware of the scope of its investment fund in China that is funding possibly harmful Chinese military and civilian technologies, according to Derek Scissors, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. According to Scissors’s report titled “What to Do About American Investment in China,” almost $800 billion in U.S. investments poured into China from 2016 to ...

A new experimental drug therapy has shown some promising signs of slowing down the progression of a type of brain cancer by more than 16 months on average. French drug developer Servier Labratories released results of a new medication that may become one of the earliest targeted therapies for a type of brain tumor affecting adults under the age of 50. ...

Rep. Anna Luna (R-Fla.) said on Monday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is afraid their confidential informant on an alleged criminal bribery scheme involving President Joe Biden and his family will be killed if their identity is revealed. “Just left meeting for House Oversight. The is afraid their informant will be killed if unmasked, based on the info ...

What did John Solomon and his team discover after poring through unreleased Jan. 6 security footage? What is the public not being told about what happened that day? We discuss in this new episode of “American Thought Leaders:NOW,” a new spinoff series of American Thought Leaders. John Solomon is an award-winning investigative journalist and editor-in-chief of Just the News.