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The American Psychological Association Has Become Worse Than You Ever Imagined If you want a microcosm of what’s happened to America’s institutions under the left’s aegis, listen to Gad Saad discuss what the American Psychological Association (APA)—the major institution of its type in America—once was and what it has now become, all through the prism of the newly elected president. The short video is deeply disturbing when you consider that what you see here is not limited to the APA but affects all American institutions where leftists dominate, which is to say, most of our institutions. Meritocracy is dead; long...

Nate Silver's midterm elections forecast shifted slightly toward Republicans after he removed a series of fake polls that he said had been roughly 1 point more favorable to Democrats than the broader consensus. The famed polling analyst said the biggest change came in Michigan, where Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed's lead fell from 3.6 points to 3. Silver noted that the movement also reflected the addition of a Marist poll to the model that showed El-Sayed 2 points ahead of Republican former Representative Mike Rogers. "Overall, our forecast is little changed, though that's partly because some strong generic ballot...

It just doesn’t fit....The list of reasons for football fans of a certain age to intensely dislike the National Football League in 2026 is a long one. I miss when defenses were allowed to tackle quarterbacks, for example. Google it, young fans. I swear it was legal! We’re not far from the day when linebackers will need to get the QB to sign a consent form before a pass can be disrupted in any way. I kid, but I don’t.I’ve had a theory for years that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell is a plant by Big Soccer, sent to destroy actual...

A new survey finds that nearly half of undergraduate students support censorship, shout-downs, and physical violence to suppress what they consider “hate speech” or offensive ideas. Fox News reports that the 2026 National Undergraduate Student Survey, released this month by the Buckley Institute, shows that 45 percent of undergraduate students surveyed believe physical violence can be justified to stop so-called hate speech. That number is up 6 points from 2025 and ties the all-time record set in 2023. The survey, which polled 803 full-time undergraduate students at four-year public and private colleges across the United States, revealed several record-high metrics...

When Andrew Rivard spotted a Crime Stoppers ad offering a $2,000 reward for tips in the winter of 2025, he decided to report what he knew about illegal cigarette sales in his neighbourhood. Rivard’s original tip shows he disclosed his full name. He says he trusted the organization’s long-standing promise to protect the identities of all tipsters. "I was told nothing would come of it; no one would come to me with, you know, I guess, resentment," Rivard said. "I just was hoping it would be that exactly — anonymous." But the Manitoba man's report — along with information from...

Police kept access to Flock’s vast surveillance system long after they left the force. Some used it to track the locations of romantic partners.When Andrae Wright left his job as an investigator at the Effingham County Sheriff’s Office in 2021, he handed in his gun and badge. But he kept something powerful: his log-in credentials for Flock, a police tool he used to search a vast network of roadside cameras tracking the locations of passing cars. In the five years after leaving the force, Wright searched the system more than 60 times without being stopped by anyone at the Georgia...

I will vote NO to retain. Do not retain Judge Lewis. In 2021 he was the lone appellate judge (fortunately outvoted) to dissent in Green v. Alachua County. In other words, Judge Lewis favors medical mandates. Judge Lewis wanted everyone to keep their masks on. Judge Joseph Lewis, in a 15-page dissent, sharply criticized the majority decision, writing that a "person's privacy right is not absolute and is not to be considered in isolation, without regard for the circumstances under which the right is asserted." "As the trial court aptly stated, a person's right to be let alone is no...

During an appearance on Fox Business Network’s “Big Money,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) weighed in on his contest against Kansas Democrat nominee Adam Hamilton. Latest polls show a single-digit contest between Marshall and Hamilton. According to incumbent Marshall, gas prices are keeping the race close. “Why then is this Senate race as close as it is, Senator?” FBN host Taylor Riggs asked. Marshall replied, “Well, no, I think it’s the price of gasoline. It’s that simple, and I’m not sure it’s as close as what the national polls are showing. Six years ago, I was an open seat. The poll...

During the run-up to elections, I like to look a little deeper into the trends that seem to be driving people to the polls. For the 2026 midterms, we're told that the main issue is "affordability." I don't disagree. I live in a deep blue region of a blue state: New Jersey. My particular county (Camden) has been under total Democrat control for a very long time. The state itself has been under Democrat legislative control since 2001, with the governor's mansion also occupied by Democrats except during a hiatus when Republican-in-name-only Chris Christie held the office from 2009-2017. So...

Below, please find the list of links to the 25 investigative articles written by Scott Johnson, Preya Samsundar, and myself from 2016 to 2020. In the July 18, 2019 article linked below, I asserted: “[T]he three years of verified evidence published by Scott Johnson, Preya Samsundar, and myself (…) appear to give probable cause to investigate Omar for eight instances of perjury, immigration fraud, marriage fraud, up to eight years of state and federal tax fraud, two years of federal student loan fraud, and even bigamy. To be clear: The facts describe perhaps the most extensive spree of illegal misconduct...

Early voting is available in most states ahead of the midterm elections, and more than 14 million Americans have already cast their ballots, according to new data. More states are opening early voting this week, with Michigan and New York set to offer it Saturday. About 14.3 million voters have cast ballots in the 2026 general election, according to the University of Florida’s Election Lab. That includes about 9.1 million mail-in ballots and 5.2 million in-person early votes. Early in-person voting began Tuesday in Hawaii, Louisiana, Missouri, Utah and Wisconsin. At an early voting site in Wisconsin, some voters said...

When an Iranian dissident proclaims that “the greatest killer of Iranians has been Islam,” the statement is less an exercise in academic historiography than a cry of immediate political exhaustion. Across the diaspora and within the quiet corners of Tehran, Isfahan, and Shiraz, a powerful counternarrative has taken hold. Confronted with the gallows, morality police, and institutional dogmatism of the Islamic Republic, many Iranians have turned history into a weapon of resistance. In this narrative, the seventh-century Arab conquest is not a distant chapter in antiquity, but the original sin of Persian history – an ongoing catastrophe linking the fall...

Five years ago in 2021 a leftist Canadian journalist by the name of Duncan Kinney reported on the defacement of a statue. Here is the first paragraph of his report as it appeared in his Progress Report story, "Nazi collaborator monuments in Edmonton defaced with red paint and words 'Actual Nazi' and “Nazi Monument.”Edmonton's statue of Roman Shukhevych, an infamous Ukrainian Nazi collaborator, has once again been defaced with red paint. This time, a second local monument—a memorial honouring the 14th Waffen SS Division—was targeted as well.Although his periodical, Progress Report, is a far left publication, to its credit that...

French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday that foreign leaders — including those “on the other side of the Atlantic” — were seeking to exploit France’s tense social climate for political gain following a weekend of street violence and looting. Protests over soaring living costs have led to widespread rioting and looting that have drawn worldwide attention and shocked many French citizens. U.S. President Donald Trump has used the violence to rally his political supporters, making unsubstantiated claims that Muslim migrants are responsible for the unrest, and urging Macron to “close your borders and take control before it is too late!”...

Two weeks ahead of the 2026 November midterm elections, which could change the balance of power in Congress, the Washington, D.C., Board of Elections sent me four strangers’ mail-in ballots. This is not a one-off. It is happening to Americans across the country. Early voting has already begun for the midterms, and millions of unsecured mail-in ballots could have already been sent and submitted. The Daily Signal decided to investigate these four ballots further. By obtaining the D.C. voter registration list, we confirmed the identities of the rightful owners and contacted one of them, a former tenant of my current...

California lost population for the first time in its history a few years back. Some of the loss has been recovered. But there’s been no growth beyond the 2020 peak. Yet Sacramento continues to expand government. The madness will continue until voters realize the mistakes they’ve been making at the ballot box for decades. America’s largest state topped out at 39.53 million in 2019. That number fell to 39.52 million in 2020, then 39.24 million in 2021 and 39.03 million in 2022. After a few years of growth, the population fell again from 2024 to 2025, is still below its...

Democrats know that when it comes to people of faith, the Republicans clean up. This explains why in this election cycle they are trying hard to appeal to religious folks: several “pastors” are running for office. The quotes are necessitated because there are good reasons to question just how representative they are of their Protestant base. Meet the “pastors” running for office. James Talarico He is running to represent Texas in the United States Senate. He is a Presbyterian seminarian and currently serves in the Texas House of Representatives. Abortion When he gave his first sermon, he chose to discuss...

Meta was ordered to pay $25 billion in penalties by a New Mexico court on Wednesday as part of a data privacy case that stemmed from the company’s Cambridge Analytica scandal from nearly a decade ago. The penalty, revealed in a court filing, comes after a jury in a Santa Fe courthouse found in September the social media giant liable for misleading state citizens about how it safeguards and collects user data and prevents harmful information from flourishing on its services. Although the jury concluded that Meta had more than 43 million violations of the state’s unfair practices act, with...

The mutual self-gift of husband and wife underlies the requirement for “total fidelity” and the “unbreakable oneness” of marriage, Pope Leo XIV said at the general audience on Wednesday. “The mutual self-giving of man and woman, such that ‘they are no longer two but one flesh,’ underlies the requirement for ‘total fidelity’ and the ‘unbreakable oneness’ of the spouses, finding vivid expression in the procreation and upbringing of children,” he said during his catechesis on Oct. 21. He focused his reflection on marriage and the family, convinced that “the well-being of the individual and of human and Christian society is...

Large numbers of sports stars continue to drop like flies since the mRNA gene therapies were rolled out.Large numbers of prominent athletes continue to die unexpectedly or suffer anomalous medical emergencies since the mRNA gene therapies were rolled out. Across the NFL, NHL, NCAA football, professional rugby, women's basketball, and international hockey, athletes ranging in age from just 18 to 56 have suffered major medical events, including pulmonary emboli, cardiac arrest, an aortic dissection, an emergency heart transplant, and several deaths. In just the first 21 days of OCTOBER 2026, at least 10 cases have made headlines: Jalen Hurts, 28...