Owen Shroyer says an X executive is openly censoring and suppressing news accounts that he personally dislikes, claiming that "news aggregation" is hurting the platform.
An enterprising assisted-suicide practitioner’s great sin: skipping the bureaucracy. The post Fighting the Law appeared first on The American Conservative .
Takimag Fighting the Law An enterprising assisted-suicide practitioner’s great sin: skipping the bureaucracy. TakiMag (Photo by Vuk Valcic/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) There is a certain irony, not to say hypocrisy, in the fact that a man called Kenneth Law, with a history of various occupations, should have been tried in Canada on a charge of having assisted 14 suicides (though he assisted many more, over 70 in England and Wales alone). For Canada is one of the great proponents and practitioners of that enlightened practice. For example, one in 12 deaths in Quebec is now by assisted suicide. …Open
U.S. strategic planners unwisely drove Moscow into Beijing’s arms. The post The Russia–China Partnership Was Made in America appeared first on The American Conservative .
Foreign Affairs The Russia–China Partnership Was Made in America U.S. strategic planners unwisely drove Moscow into Beijing’s arms. (Photo by Maxim Shemetov – China Pool/Getty Images) Last month’s summit meeting between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping—during which the leaders signed over 40 cooperation agreements and deepened their nations’ strategic partnership—provides just the latest sign that diplomatic, economic, and military cooperation between Russia and China is robust and continues to rise. That trend is profoundly distressing to political and media elites in the United States, most of whom are…Open
FISA Section 702 may expire, but that won’t mean the end of the surveillance state. The post The Deep State May Soon Lose a Key Spy Tool appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics The Deep State May Soon Lose a Key Spy Tool FISA Section 702 may expire, but that won’t mean the end of the surveillance state. (Photo by SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images) With a 45-day extension set to expire on June 12, establishment factions of Congress are scrambling to secure a clean reauthorization of FISA Section 702—the provision that allows the government to sweep up communications from foreign targets without first getting a warrant. Often, those conversations are between foreign nationals and American citizens, raising constitutional concerns. The 45-day clean extension that passed on April 30 was…Open
Iraqi civilian authorities say they would compensate international and U.S companies for losses resulting from attacks on their facilities if they originated within Iraq.
Biden administration was again found to have politicizing gender-identity research, with emails showing it used speculative "family rejection" theory to justify affirmation mandate in foster care regulation despite scientific pushback