2025-12-24 19:00:08
With the announcement earlier this month that New York City will soon welcome three glittering new gambling houses, America’s multidecade experiment in casino expansion is all but complete. The house, as they say, is winning.
2025-12-24 18:30:08
President Donald Trump spent much of 2025 squandering the public’s support on what was once his best issue: immigration. Yes, he quickly delivered on his campaign promise to secure the southern border. But as the year unfolded, his anti-immigrant agenda drove immigration policy far beyond where most Americans are willing to go. Trump has claimed the US is being “invaded” — on March 15 he invoked the Alien Enemies Act as a pretext to deport more than 200 Venezuelans to the CECOT prison in El Salv
2025-12-24 18:00:10
In 1830, the US Supreme Court determined that despite having been born in New York City in the 1770s, Anglican Bishop John Inglis of Nova Scotia was not a US citizen and therefore not eligible to inherit property in New York, which at the time did not allow aliens to do so. Inglis v. the Trustees of the Sailor’s Snug Harbour was thus a landmark early ruling on birthright citizenship, a topic back before the Supreme Court.
2025-12-24 12:00:08
Britain’s so-called golden era of relations with China ended ignominiously and has few defenders left. Yet have the lessons of this epochal misstep really been learned? For all the greater weight given to security concerns, the UK’s revamped policy toward the Communist Party-ruled superpower — shared to varying degrees by the European Union and US — rests on an assumption that trade and investment interests can be carved out from the more menacing aspects of China’s rise. It’s a proposition that
2025-12-24 04:00:08
So much climate news comes out in any given week that it can be hard to keep up with it all. Much is gloomy, but there are positive developments all the time — so many, in fact, that it’s easy to miss some of the things that have been happening.
2025-12-24 03:00:08
The country, left for dead at the onset of 2025, turns out to be the only other economic superpower that matters
