House appears poised to pull infrastructure vote amid stubborn stalemate  —  House Democrats appear poised to miss a second vote on a bipartisan infrastructure bill this week, highlighting the stubborn stalemate over the larger social benefits package at the core of President Biden's agenda.

The Right to Health  —  Immunization mandates aren't new.  One helped win the American Revolution.  —  The United States owes its existence as a nation partly to an immunization mandate.  —  In 1777, smallpox was a big enough problem for the bedraggled American army that George Washington thought it could jeopardize the Revolution.

Leader of Prestigious Yale Program Resigns, Citing Donor Pressure  —  The historian Beverly Gage, who has run the Grand Strategy course since 2017, says the university failed to stand up for academic freedom amid inappropriate efforts to influence the curriculum.

the facebook files  —  Facebook Inc. knows, in acute detail, that its platforms are riddled with flaws that cause harm, often in ways only the company fully understands.  That is the central finding of a Wall Street Journal series, based on a review of internal Facebook documents …

President Biden Names Eighth Round of Judicial Nominees  —  The President is announcing fourteen judicial nominees, including ten new candidates for the federal bench.  All of the nominees are extraordinarily qualified, experienced, and devoted to the rule of law and our Constitution.

Governor Lee, Commissioner Rolfe Announce Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. to Relocate Headquarters and Other Major Operations to Tennessee  — Leading U.S.-based firearms manufacturer will invest more than $125 million to relocate from Springfield, Massachusetts to Maryville, Tennessee

Senate reaches deal to avoid government shutdown, Schumer announces  —  Congress racing to prevent government shutdown  —  WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Wednesday that senators have reached a deal on a stopgap government funding measure to prevent a shutdown.

Rep. Dan Crenshaw Fined $5,000 for Skirting House Metal Detector  —  PRICEY PASSTHROUGH  —  Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) has been fined $5,000 for refusing to go through metal detectors en route into the chambers of the House of Representatives.  According to a notice from the House Committee on Ethics …

New Initiative Explores Deep, Persistent Divides Between Biden and Trump Voters  —  The University of Virginia Center for Politics has partnered with Project Home Fire, a new initiative dedicated to finding common ground in American politics, on an innovative new data analytics and polling project …

Justice Sonia Sotomayor: ‘There is going to be a lot of disappointment in the law, a huge amount’  —  (CNN)Days before the start of a tumultuous term, and after the Supreme Court justices divided bitterly over a Texas law that bars most abortions after six weeks, Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned …

Trump Super PAC Removes Corey Lewandowski After Sexual Harassment Claim  —  The move came after a donor to former President Donald J. Trump said that Mr. Lewandowski had made unwanted sexual advances and touched her inappropriately.  —  Corey Lewandowski, a longtime political adviser to Donald J. Trump …

Shakira says wild boars in Barcelona attacked her and stole her purse  —  Grammy Award-winning singer Shakira says two wild boars pounced on her bag as she visited a Barcelona park with her son, running off into the forest with it.  —  In a series of videos posted to her Instagram story Wednesday …

Democrats worry a loss in Virginia could set off a cascade of election troubles  —  President Biden's slumping approval ratings and gridlock on Capitol Hill have raised the risk that Democrats could lose the Virginia governor's race, according to party insiders who fear a defeat …

Idaho Secretary of State refutes Mike Lindell's statewide election manipulation claims  —  BOISE, Idaho (KMVT/KSVT) — Staff from the Idaho Secretary of State's office visited two Idaho counties last week following receipt of information that alleged statewide manipulation of Idaho's election results.

Could Sen. Kyrsten Sinema face a primary?  These progressives are trying to make it happen.  —  WASHINGTON — A group of Arizona Democrats backed by a network of deep-pocketed donors is laying the groundwork for a primary challenge to Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, organizers said.

Scoop: Milley's blunt private blame for the State Department  —  In a classified briefing with senators on Tuesday, Joint Chiefs Chairman Mark Milley directly blamed the State Department for a botched evacuation from Afghanistan, saying officials “waited too long” to order the operation …

There's a Multibillion-Dollar Market for Your Phone's Location Data  —  A huge but little-known industry has cropped up around monetizing people's movements  —  Companies that you likely have never heard of are hawking access to the location history on your mobile phone.

My favorite Covid counterfactuals  —  Ross Douthat published a couple of speculative columns on Covid Counterfactuals.  As someone who loves alternate history as a genre and also took a whole very serious philosophy class about the importance of counterfactual analysis for thinking about history, I like this type of column.

Hack Of Oath Keepers Militia Group Includes Names Of Active NYPD Officers, De Blasio Launches Investigation  —  New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio's office said it will scrutinize NYPD ranks following a WNYC/Gothamist investigation of online records that appears to tie several …

The Coordinated Attack on Ivermectin Is a Crime Against Humanity  —  Make no mistake, the evil, deadly, coordinated globalist attacks we are currently witnessing on ivermectin will go down in history as a vicious crime against humanity.  —  Just as we saw with hydroxychloroquine last summer …

Former Nazi camp secretary in German trial, 96, on the run  —  BERLIN (AP) — A former secretary for the SS commander of the Stutthof concentration camp was being sought on an arrest warrant Thursday after skipping the planned start of her trial in Germany on more than 11,000 counts of accessory to murder, officials said.

My Father and the Birth of Modern Conservatism  —  The inspiration for the 1964 “Extremism in the defense of liberty” speech he wrote for Barry Goldwater.  —  On July 16, 1964 Barry Goldwater strode to the podium at the Cow Palace in Daly City, California and accepted the Republican party's nomination for president.