Outrage continues over the Uvalde massacre of last Tuesday, May 24, in which 21 people were killed and 17 wounded. The assault on this elementary school stands out for many reasons: the youth of the victims, the apparent mishandling of the situation by law enforcement officers, and the heroism of the parents, for example. After all, there have been at least 14 mass shootings in the U.S. since the Uvalde murders, killing at least 10 people and wounding another 61, and they have gotten much less attention.

Am picking up my knitting by our very own woodstove, and feeling extraordinarily fortunate to be in such a position. Turning things over tonight to my friend Nadia with a holiday picture she took in Ukraine... before 2022. I’ll see you tomorrow. [Picture by Nadia Povalinska.]

There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling.

Half of American babies are born to unmarried mothers. And those with two parents, Melissa Kearney argues, have an immense advantage.

Everything we are seeing is fruit of the Big Lie. And it’s going to get worse.

The economy isn't the best...but it could be a lot worse. And our guest thinks voters are catastrophizing too much about the state of things. Sarah's best friend Jonathan V. Last (JVL) joins the show to argue with voters who aren't there to argue back.

Reclaiming some time, from a House hearing on free speech

After nearly two years of pretending "victory" was coming, the president and a senior advisor finally admit the reality of Ukraine's dilemma. On the hawks who cried wolf

There's a neglected dimension beyond gender in America's troubled youth

How does this new time work for everybody?

Teachers in Manatee County, Florida, are being told to make their classroom libraries — and any other "unvetted" book — inaccessible to students, or risk felony prosecution. The new policy is part of an effort to comply with new laws and regulations championed by Governor Ron DeSantis (R). It is based on the premise, promoted by right-wing advocacy groups, that teachers and librarians are using books to "groom" students or indoctrinate them with leftist ideologies.

It's been a busy few weeks for Popular Information. Here are a few highlights: And something fun: Earlier this year, Popular Information broke t…

How painfully, cringingly super-woke must a comedian get to stay relevant?

For contest #400 — another big milestone — we head to a place Americans should know more about.

Thoughts about heightism

With Heather Lofthouse and yours truly

July 30, 2023

An explainer (long)

The truth is what it is

An unlikely pairing

This is a story about lying. Public lying. It is a story about Senator John McCain’s lying, and the damage it has done to many people, including me. It is also a story about my lying because, ultimately, John McCain’s lie became mine. Over time, that lie has become heavier as I have been abused by the family of the man I worked for

The moral rot at America’s elite universities and the dogmatic ideologies that hold Americanism in contempt, cheer Hamas killers, crush dissent, destroy intellectual freedom and embrace division have been exposed. It is twisted. What has been exposed is the fruits of a generation of ideological indoctrination that has poisoned a generation of brittle college graduates, who combine arrogance, dogmatism, ignorance, intolerance and certitude into an absurd concoction of grievance-based performative nothingness. Somehow, the nation has failed them so completely and abandoned them so absolutely that they became prey for digital hustlers pushing algorithms that celebrate mass rape, child murder, human butchery and the firing of automatic weapons at point blank range into the genitals of young girls, mothers and grandmothers.

The night before the insurrection, a large group of Trump family and advisers held an urgent meeting with January 6 organizers at the president's private residence in DC.

This fourth book in the New York Times-bestselling Proof series is a fully sourced 250-page exposé on the January 6 coup plot at the Pentagon—with hundreds of citations, photographs, videos, and more.

Trump is running the Hitler speech and playbook. America needs to wake up.

It’s hard to believe that it’s been a full year since I launched The Status Kuo as a paid service. I decided at time to make this newsletter supported completely by voluntary contributions, so that those who could not afford to pay could still receive all of my content. After all, what’s most important is that as many readers are armed with knowledge, clear in the danger that confronts us, and unified in our resolve.

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We have crossed 1000 deaths in the United States. Here is the present number in the situation. A lot of people want to push the narrative that we are just like Italy, things will wind up like Italy, and we are all going to die. But events change things. We have better medical capabilities. There are parts of the country that may have problems, but overall don’t believe the scare scenarios. The situation is bad enough. There are real concerns. But we’re not all going to die. The worst-case scenario is a scenario, not reality.

The special counsel investigating Hunter Biden has charged the President’s son with nine new charges relating to tax evasion in the state of California. David Weiss - the Trump holdover tasked with investigating Hunter Biden - said the younger Biden, “spent millions of dollars on an extravagant lifestyle rather than paying his tax bills.”

Dear Criminal Defendant #4913961R: Thank you for showing up without incident yesterday for your arrest and arraignment. You appeared somewhat bewildered as to why you were there. As this is only the first of a number of criminal charges and arraignments for you that will follow from other prosecutors, I think it’s only fair that I give you the lay of the land as to what’s ahead and why this is happening.

Friends, Last week on my podcast you heard a chorus of voices made up of a thousand Jewish New Yorkers and their allies calling for a cease-fire in Israel and Gaza as they staged the largest act of civil disobedience in New York City in the past 20 years — completely shutting down Grand Central Station.

15 years imprisonment?

Interview with Jim Acosta

If Donald Trump ran for President, why would you vote for him? Or, why not? Please leave me a comment here and thank you so much for subscribing to my newsletter. Sincerely, Mike P.S. The Sunday Standard will deliver later this morning.

AOC claimed that if biological men are banned from women’s sports, all underaged girls will face genital exams to prove they’re women.

Democrats need to push past our 2016 emotional trauma and project confidence.

You defeat a strongman by revealing their weakness

The inside story of the campaign to eliminate the “diversity, equity, and inclusion” bureaucracy.

Conservatives must learn the lessons of 2020—and prepare.

Here's what happened.

Speech is free. Defamation is not.

Roland Fryer is the most gifted economist of his generation. Not the most gifted black economist of his generation, the most gifted economist of his generation. Period. He was tenured at Harvard at the age of 30, he was awarded the American Economics Association’s John Bates Clark Medal, he received a MacArthur “Genius” grant, his publications appeared in some of the most distinguished journals in the field, and his scholarship was regularly covered in the mainstream media. His research upends many commonly held assumptions about race, discrimination, education, and police violence. It is

with John McWhorter

The signal was in Biden's speech, but entirely missed by the press

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Ranking the Democrats' potential presidential candidates for 2024 and beyond.

Perception, reality, and the last, best hope of liberalism under Biden

The map of anti-trans risk has polarized into two Americas - one where trans people have full legal protections, and one where they are persecuted by the state.

In a hearing on a gender affirming care ban for transgender youth in Ohio, the presidents of some of the top pediatric hospitals in the United States testified against trans care bans.