Victor Davis Hanson in The Epoch Times answers his self-posed question whether Americans are better off since Donald Trump’s inauguration in January. In contrast to the litany of defeat and decline under Joe Biden – like the deadly, costly, bungled bug-out from Afghanistan – Hanson lists a veritable avalanche of Trumpian accomplishments, including regaining control over the southern border, surging energy exports, forging multiple peace agreements, presiding over robust economic growth and rolling back DEI/wokism.

Racial Quotas by Algorithm
Allum Bokhari, writing in The American Conservative, illuminates a Colorado state bill claiming to create “a shield against ‘algorithmic discrimination’” that would force AI companies to generate outputs based on government-imposed racial, and other identity-based, quotas. As with past variants of reverse discrimination, asserts Bokhari, Colorado’s AI bill amounts to thinly disguised leftist ideology aimed at institutionalizing the very harm it claims to ameliorate.


