The radical ideas of progressives

Voting by mail dates back to the Civil War. In 2024, 31% of U.S. voters—about 48 million people—cast ballots by mail. In March 2026, the administration issued an executive order directing USPS to refuse delivery of mail-in ballots to voters not on a federally compiled “eligible voter” list. Not only isn’t this federal government’s jurisdiction, the states already maintain well-ke...

On June 18, U.S. District Judge James Hanlon ordered the release of Salah Sarsour, president of Wisconsin’s largest mosque, from nearly three months in Immigration and CustomsEnforcement (ICE) custody after finding evidence that his detention may have been tied to his pro-Palestinian speech. He was freed hours later. Sarsour, born in the West Bank city of Ramallah, is a lawful permanent resid...

Oneofourfounders—BenjaminFranklin — mapped and measured the depth of the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic Ocean after learning about its existence from a whaling ship captain. As he traveled between America and Britain and back, he dropped thermometers into the ocean at various depths and carefully recorded and mapped the data. Franklin’s map is remarkably similar to modern infrared maps. Fast...