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Wisconsin Representative Mike Gallager: UFOs Could Be ‘Us from the Future’

By Jack Butler 4:43 PM

It isn’t necessarily Gallagher’s preferred explanation for unexplained aerial phenomena. But he thinks we need to take the issue more seriously than we have.

Yet Another Anti-Conservative Study Was Fake News

By Andrew Follett May 15, 2022

Virtually all social-science hypotheses that attempt to find dark psychological reasons for conservatism haven’t held up at all under peer review.

The Radical Left’s Anti-Nuclear Agenda Is Still Foolish

By Eric Scott Dawson May 14, 2022

One year after the shutdown of Indian Point nuclear plant, the folly of New York’s crusade against a safe and reliable form of energy is even clearer.

Yes, I’m Sure President Biden Often Discusses the Details of Quantum Computing

By Jim Geraghty May 4, 2022

Quantum computing is one of those national security issues that gets little attention but could be enormously consequential.

What’s Behind the Massive Twitter-Follower Fluctuations?

By Isaac Schorr April 28, 2022

An NBC article claims ‘apolitical users’ fled the platform, but an industry expert tells NR ‘the evidence points to some inorganic activity.’

TikTok Livestream Facilitates Sexual Exploitation of Minors, Experts Say

By Caroline Downey April 27, 2022

Adult men are encouraging underage girls to perform stripteases in exchange for monetary and other rewards.

‘Algorithmic Justice’

By Charles C. W. Cooke April 26, 2022

A new term just dropped.

House GOP Members Allege EcoHealth Alliance Fudged Covid-19 Lab Data to Secure Funding Renewal

By Caroline Downey April 25, 2022

Republicans claim that EcoHealth Alliance fudged important mice-death data that might have led peer reviewers to reconsider giving more funding to the agency.

This Robert Reich Tweet Is Worth the Whole $44 Billion Elon Musk Paid for Twitter

By Philip Klein April 25, 2022

Every time conservatives complained about the stifling of open speech, they were greeted with taunts of ‘If you don’t like it, you start your own Twitter.’

How Elon Musk Can Improve Twitter

By Charles C. W. Cooke April 25, 2022

Three immediate steps he can take to address the platform’s core problems.