Total Internet Blackout In Iran Hits 8 Weeks As Citizens Left In Dark About War's Future

Antitrust populists claimed blocking the Spirit–JetBlue merger would protect competition and consumers. But their effort entirely misdiagnosed the problem with the airline industry, leading to an intervention that strengthened the very oligopoly they set out to fight.

US Treasury To Partner With Education Department To Collect Student Loan Debt Authored by Naveen Athrappully via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), The U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Department of Education (ED) jointly announced a new partnership under which the Treasury will assume responsibility for collecting on defaulted federal student loan debt, according to a March 19 joint statement from the departments. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon speaks outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Jan. 13, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times The Federal Student Assistance Partnership will enhance the...

When The Cost of Truth Is High, We (And AI) Lie... Authored by Charles Hugh Smith via OfTwoMinds blog, When we can no longer tell the truth because the cost is so high that it threatens our reward for compliance, we're unimaginably impoverished. Truth has an intrinsic, irreplaceable value.  There's the truth, and then there's everything else. Truth has value, and so it has a cost.  Whatever has the highest value has the highest cost, and high cost commands sacrifices. When the cost of truth is high, we lie.  And since AI is a distorted reflection of...