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- Behind UCLA’s Funding Freeze: Anti-Israel Professors, Radical Grantmaking and Major DEI Investments
- IMPACT: PAUL, ERNST ADVANCE ROYALTY TRANSPARENCY ACT, ACKNOWLEDGE OPEN THE BOOKS
- Note to Congress on DEI in the Sciences: The Call is Coming from Inside the House
- 40 Months? The Eternal FOIA Backlog
- Trump White House Payroll Shrinks 29% Year-Over-Year
- Baywatch Pay Watch: Half-million-dollar checks, six-figure overtime for LA lifeguards
- Elon is out. Excessive spending is not.
- America is Deeply Invested in Israel’s Success
- Support for Israel has a Long Bipartisan History
- The Cost of Restoring Order in Los Angeles
- California Pumped Tens of Millions into Immigration NGO’s that Fight Deportation, Track ICE and more…
- Social Security for 200-Year-Olds?
- DOGE’s Unfinished Business
- Ideological Capture at Professional Societies
- DOGE's Second Act