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The new defense secretary should focus on moving the Department of Defense back to its core mission: winning.

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In the time between his two presidential administrations, Donald Trump was famously the subject of four separate criminal indictments, two of which were spearheaded by Special Counsel Jack Smith. Given that Trump will soon be in charge of the Department of Justice, Smith ended both cases in November. This week, Smith’s report pertaining to Trump’s […]

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After a meeting with President-elect Donald Trump at Mar-a-Lago, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told reporters that she does not expect Canadian goods to gain any special exemptions from the tariffs Trump plans to levy soon after taking office. Smith had pitched Trump on exempting Alberta’s crude oil exports from the 25 percent across-the-board tariffs that […]

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The genetic testing company 23andMe and similar organizations have been providing customers with information about their genetic backgrounds for many years now. Clearly, it takes a good bit of trust to send your genetic material to a corporation. Unforuntately, for some customers, that trust was broken. In 2023, the company 23andMe experienced a data security […]

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Mark Zuckerberg has joined a dubious list of prominent Americans—including judges, members of Congress, and even a vice presidential nominee—who believe that you can’t yell “fire” in a crowded theater. In an interview with Joe Rogan last week, the Meta CEO attempted to justify the company’s pandemic-era censorship policies by arguing that “even people who are […]

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Jack Smith isn’t the only game in town. Attorney General Garland also released a 278-page report from Special Counsel David Weiss concerning Hunter Biden. Because President Biden gave his son a full, complete, and preemptive pardon, Weiss did not discuss any other potential uncharged conduct. But Weiss spent several pages responding to President Biden’s comments […]

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Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s newsletter takes an extended look at the Los Angeles–area fires and the alleged link between bad zoning, land use, insurance, and environmental review policies and the damage done by the fires themselves. The Los Angeles Fires and the Overblown Role of Public Policy […]

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Attorney General Merrick Garland has released Volume I of Jack Smith’s report, which focuses on the January 6 prosecution of Trump. Smith addresses one of the lingering questions: why did he not charge Trump with violating the federal insurrection statute (18 U.S.C. § 2383). In early 2021, Seth Barrett Tillman and I wrote an article […]

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Hanoi, Vietnam, January 14th, 2025, Chainwire Game to Onboard Billions of Users to Polkadot via Koni Stack’s Telegram Mini App-as-a-Service Koni Stack, the platform that accelerates next-generation Web3 decentralized applications (dApps) with unified, end-to-end solutions, has announced an innovative partnership with Mythical Games to launch Football Rivals, a new toss-up game designed to bring billions […]

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