This piece is the sixth installment of a biweekly series written by David A. Foster (Center bias), based on his new book, Moderates of the World, Unite! Read the first post in the series.  Immigration is a critical issue in the current election. As a conscientious voter, please review the topic areas below and (mentally) rate your own degree of understanding of each topic on a five-point scale. Here is a simple question: aside from the last two, can you...

The Biden administration’s policies toward the Middle East over the past year are generally cast by the media as well-meaning but ineffective. The president and his team, according to what his aides tell reporters, are pushing hard for a resolution that ends the violence. The president reportedly scolds Benjamin Netanyahu when the two speak privately but can’t get the Israeli prime minister on board with a strategy that would minimize Palestinian casualties....

Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota on Tuesday called for abolishing the Electoral College as a means of electing American presidents, reiterating a position he has articulated in the past while he and Vice President Kamala Harris are in the heat of a campaign for the White House. Twice during campaign fund-raisers on the West Coast, Mr. Walz said he would prefer that presidential candidates did not have to focus on a few political battlegrounds and could instead focus on winning votes from across...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, the Democratic Party’s vice presidential nominee, suggested Tuesday night that the Electoral College should be abolished during two West Coast campaign stops. Walz mentioned the concept during fundraisers in Seattle and in Sacramento, Calif., while talking to donors in the deep blue areas. “And we know, because of our system of the Electoral College, that puts a few states in real focus,” Walz said in Seattle. “I’m a national popular vote guy, but that’s...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz on Tuesday called for the elimination of the Electoral College during a fundraiser in California, a move some Democrats have advocated for in the past after election defeats.  Walz was in California Gov. Gavin Newsom's private home in Sacramento when he remarked about the process by which U.S. presidents are elected.   "I think all of us know the Electoral College needs to go," he said, according to a pool report at the event, Bloomberg reported...

CBS News (digital content rated Lean Left) appears to have altered its 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris by changing her original answer to a question about Israel, which some, like The Daily Mail (Right bias), had called an unfocused “word salad.” This type of bias has come up on both sides of the aisle this election cycle. Fox News (Right bias) was accused of deceptively editing an interview with Donald Trump in June. News outlets should always release full, unedited interviews so...

Brazil’s supreme court lifted its ban on Elon Musk’s X on Tuesday after the social-media platform complied with a justice’s demands. The nationwide ban was in effect for more than a month. Brazil’s highest court previously upheld Justice Alexandre de Moraes’s August 30 order after X had declined to name a legal representative in Brazil. X ultimately complied with that demand and agreed to censor certain accounts and pay outstanding fines, the Associated Press reported.

Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg had to speak to Elon Musk on the phone to get the tech billionaire and Donald Trump superfan to stop spouting hurricane relief misinformation. Buttigieg and Musk initially clashed on X last Friday, when Musk falsely claimed that the Federal Aviation Administration planned to “shut down” airspace over hard-hit states. They later spoke on the phone, Buttigieg told MSNBC’s Jen Psaki, after Buttigieg...

The Supreme Court—often derided by progressives as a bastion of far-right extremists—will soon deal a devastating blow to the death penalty.  The court is scheduled to hear oral arguments in the case of Oklahoma death row inmate Richard Glossip on Wednesday, and either way they rule, their decision will rock national attitudes toward capital punishment.

It’s like déjà vu all over again.  Another Supreme Court term has started and another government agency finds itself before the justices trying to justify taking an expansive view of its own authority.  In Garland v. VanDerStok, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives seeks to defend a rule it promulgated two years ago expanding its ability to regulate so-called ghost guns and their parts by expansively interpreting certain...