UK Faces Summer Flight Disruptions As Jet Fuel Risks Mount

The Case Against Public-Sector Unions Authored by Aaron White via RealClearPolicy, America’s public-sector unions have a problem they can’t explain away: Workers are leaving. Ask a public employee when they joined their union and most couldn’t tell you. Because they didn’t join. The dues just started coming out of their check. That’s not a membership, and for decades nobody told workers they could opt out. That changed in 2018, when the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed in Janus v. AFSCME that no government employee can be forced to join or pay dues to a labor union. Hundreds of...

Colorblind Constitution: The Roberts Court Ends A 'Sordid Business' Authored by Jonathan Turley, The Supreme Court’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais, barring racial gerrymandering, has many on the left feigning vapors, despite the predictions of many of us that this result was likely. While figures such as Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) declared that the court itself has been “gerrymandered” to rig the upcoming elections, this decision is actually the culmination of decades of jurisprudence by various justices — particularly Chief Justice John Roberts. Indeed, the decision will cement the legacy of the Roberts Court in moving the country toward...

Fearing Iranian Escalation In Red Sea, Saudis Push Trump To Call Off Hormuz Blockade Wary of Iranian escalation that shuts down Red Sea traffic, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is asking the Trump administration to back off from its newly-implemented blockade of Iranian-linked shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday evening. On Sunday, a senior advisor to Iranian Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei warned that Iran has "large, untouched levers" to respond to such a blockade.  Perhaps ominously, Bab el-Mandeb translates to "Gate of Tears" (map via...