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Get ready for more energy shortages. The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) power plant rule was finalized last week, and it is bad news for America’s energy supply. Under the new rule, all coal plants that plan to stay open beyond 2039 and any new natural gas plant would have to cut or capture 90% of their carbon dioxide emissions by …

This might sound like a plot for a thriller — and I am the author of “The Year of the Dragon”— but the director of the FBI, Christopher Wray, recently said, at Vanderbilt University’s “Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats,” that Chinese-government-linked hackers have “burrowed into critical U.S. infrastructure” and are waiting for “just the right moment to deal …

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s Theater of the Absurd entered its third week, still without any evidence of crimes committed by the accused. Playwright Samuel Beckett would be proud.The Trump hush money trial is like “Waiting for Godot” —a chaotic and nonsensical plot of absurdist fiction.The titular Godot, of course, never arrives.It is an apt metaphor for Bragg’s case against …

At the end of “Terminator 2: Judgment Day,” Arnold Schwarzenegger’s T-800 character is lowered into the molten metaltoprevent his processing chip from falling into the wrong hands. As the Terminator goes under, he gives the iconic thumbs up. The Terminator and other fake robots andAIs should stay in that molten pit and out oftoday’spublicpolicydiscussions aboutAI. Policymakers should not reference or …

Editor’s note: The following commentary first appeared on christopherrufo.com. The pro-Palestinian encampment drama could prove a disaster for the Left. Let me explain why, and how the Right can exploit it. Most Americans do not understand the Israel-Hamas conflict or how it relates to the United States, but for good reason, most support Israel over Hamas. In this context, left-wing …

The problem with unaddressed crises is that they tend to metastasize. New crises develop within the chaos of the former, and the vicious cycle continues. President Joe Biden’s border crisis has created several other crises, but one issue stands out among the rest. The number of Chinese nationals illegally crossing our southern border is up by 7,000% since 2021, and …

A survey conducted byGallupat the end of March found that 55% of Americans say they care about inflation “a great deal,” the highest level of concern recorded among all the issues listed. The economy, health care costs and federal spending also ranked among the top issues. In fact, the only non-economic topic among the top six issues by respondents in …

The liberal political and cultural bias of National Public Radio has moved center-stage, thanks to theFree Press essay by Uri Berliner, the former NPR editor who resigned earlier this month. In his essay he correctly observed that NPR news both caters to and reflect “the distilled worldview of a very small segment of the US population,” mainly in blue cities …

The following is excerpted from Tulsi Gabbard’s book “For Love of Country: Leave the Democrat Party Behind” (Regnery Publishing), which is being released Tuesday, April 30. We have no time to waste. We live in troubled times. Our nation is bitterly divided. Our future as a republic, as a union, appears bleak. The news – the noise, the insanity, the …

It’s not just atrocious polls that suggest President Joe Biden will lose in November; it’s also the behavior of the White House. In just the past few weeks, the Biden administration has rolled out over a dozen new initiatives and rules, many of them – like banning development of Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve – likely to impact our country far …