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How much of a problem is “fake news,” really? According to a discussion on the issue at the Conservative Political Action Conference, or CPAC, the U.S. media environment is in poor shape and has damaged its reputation with Americans. Among other things, the panel moderated by WMAL radio host Larry O’Connor talked about media coverage…

Transgender ideology is doing irreparable damage to children’s mental and physical well-being and the consequences may be irreversible, a Heritage Foundation scholar warns. “People who are suffering are not receiving the care they deserve,” Ryan T. Anderson, a senior research fellow at the leading Washington think tank said Wednesday in remarks there introducing his new…

Hollywood star Jennifer Lawrence says she will take a year off to help “fix our democracy,” but her claim that her political activism will be nonpartisan is being greeted with some skepticism. Lawrence told TV’s “Entertainment Tonight” last week that she will take a sabbatical from acting to work with Represent.Us, a self-proclaimed bipartisan, grassroots…

TALLINN, Estonia—At a bombing range in Estonia, U.S. fighter pilots are training to fight a far more technologically sophisticated adversary than they’ve faced in war zones like Afghanistan, Syria, or Iraq since 2001. And they’re training to do so without relying on America’s vaunted technological dominance in air power. “We’re dropping just old-school, dumb bombs,”…

Colleges and universities have not respected the due process rights of the accused when resolving allegations of sexual misconduct, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said during public remarks. A feminist icon and patroness of the #MeToo movement, Ginsburg expressed sympathy with widely held perceptions about systemic injustice in college rape tribunals. Ginsburg told The Atlantic’s…