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Witt Leaves White House Crypto Role After Two Years

The White House Digital Assets Advisory Committee has lost its executive director as Patrick Witt steps down from his post. The departure comes after the expiration of Witt’s temporary detail…

A mill town in winter — a black-and-white documentary photograph.
A mill town in winter, where the works set the hours and the whole valley lived by them.Photograph · Farm Security Administration · Library of Congress

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Trump Administration Blames NYC Sanctuary Laws for Violent Crimes

The White House launched a direct attack on New York City’s sanctuary policies this weekend, arguing that local refusal to cooperate with…

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Supreme Court Reviews Trump Immigration, Gun, and Energy Policies

The Supreme Court is set to rule on a slate of cases this term that directly test the legal boundaries of President…

Economy

Witt Leaves White House Crypto Role After Two Years

The White House Digital Assets Advisory Committee has lost its executive director as Patrick Witt steps down from his post. The departure…

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Musk Spends $366 Million on 2026 Midterm Races

The Stakes Elon Musk has emerged as the dominant financial force in the 2026 midterm elections, deploying approximately $366 million to support…

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A republic is not a feeling; it is a discipline — a set of arrangements a free people agree to hold themselves to even when it is inconvenient.

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“Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power.” James Madison · The Federalist No. 63

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