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Commentary Many readers are no doubt familiar with nudge theory, a concept built around achieving compliance without using coercion. Ostensibly, nudges are designed to help people make better decisions. However, when governments resort to nudging, we must ask, who benefits? Is this nudge actually a push? And in what direction, exactly, are we being pushed? […]

Commentary The Rage Against the War Machine (RATWM) rally in Washington, D.C. on Feb. 19 was, if nothing else, a case of politics making for strange bedfellows. It was organized by the emphatically pro-big-and-all-powerful-government People’s Party and the emphatically shrink-or-abolish-government Libertarian Party. The shock waves of this strange collaboration continue to reverberate. The leftists over

Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) on Feb. 27 announced she is running for the U.S. Senate. “There are certain things that should be really simple, like living a middle class life in the state that invented the middle class, like making things in America so that we’re in control of our own economic security, like protecting

Republican lawmakers are expressing alarm over Beijing’s persistent efforts to use Western outlets to spread its narratives, including claims that Washington had overreacted to a “wandering balloon” and damaged the bilateral relationship. In an op-ed recently published in the Washington Post, Xu Xueyuan, the chargé d’affaires at the Chinese regime’s embassy in Washington, repeated Beijing’s

A​ winter storm will bring snow, ice, and winds to portions of the Midwest and Northeast United States starting Monday and lasting until Tuesday, forecasters say. “A swath of snow and ice are expected spread across the Upper Midwest, Great Lakes and Northeast today while a secondary low pressure system develops and the pair of

The American School Counselor Association’s (ASCA) certification test teaches critical race theory (CRT) and radical gender ideology as facts, according to documents obtained by parental rights activist Alvin Lui. “This isn’t just like 10 or 15 percent of school counselors that are very ideological and very radical,” he told The Epoch Times. “The whole system

How well did you sleep last night? The question goes to the heart of how to measure your sleep quality. If you haven’t already, I invite you to shift your attention away from the number of hours you sleep and instead learn to gauge the quality of your slumber. Once you explore several dimensions of

CROTONE, Italy—Rescuers recovered three more bodies on Monday, a day after a wooden sailboat carrying migrants to Europe smashed onto rocks in stormy weather off southern Italy, bringing the death toll to 62, including at least 14 children. Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said more than two dozen Pakistanis were believed to have been among

Russia is suspending its participation in the START treaty, the only nuclear arms control agreement remaining between the United States and the Russian Federation. This move diminishes the treaty and increases the risk of an accelerated power nuclear arms competition. President Joe Biden called it a “big mistake.” Mr. Mallory Stewart, assistant secretary for arms

Commentary Toronto’s municipal political arena has been quite the spectacle lately. It could turn into a political nightmare by the summer. John Tory, who was roughly four months into his third mayoral term, admitted to an illicit affair with a 31-year-old former staffer. He immediately announced his resignation on Feb. 10, and stepped down seven