The American Spectator

On Tuesday, July 14, 2026, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Sunshine Protection Act (H.R. 139), a bill aimed to eliminate twice-annual clock change, by a vote of 308-117. The Act will make daylight saving time (DST) permanent across the U.S., although states have the option to opt out and instead use permanent standard time if they act before the bill officially takes effect. Rep.

After three weeks of silence, Mitch McConnell and his staff set out to end the speculation about whether he is still alive by posting a “proof of life” photo of him and his wife together. However, that photo only left more questions than answers.

If there’s one thing New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani understands, it’s how the cost-of-living impacts disaffected voters. From fare-free buses to subsidized childcare, the young mayor won his race in 2025 on an “affordability agenda” that framed the election in economic terms everyone understands. This trend has picked up steam.

A two-day summit on July 14-15, between defense-related business, academic, and government leaders, organized by U.S. Senator Dave McCormick and headlined by President Donald Trump, at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, signaled broad agreement that the United States must continue to revitalize its industrial and technological defense base to meet the geopolitical and geoeconomic challenges of the Chinese Communist Party.

On Tuesday, July 14, 2026, Justices Amy Coney Barrett and Elena Kagan testified before House and Senate appropriators to seek more protection at work and at home. They argued that the security budget should increase by $14 million to cover rising threats, bringing the total proposed budget to $230 million. The Supreme Court Police expects threats to increase by 38 percent this year, up from last year’s 25 percent increase, according to Kagan.

The long-looming crisis in Western education is fully upon us. Due to uncritical programs that blindly touted the supposed benefits of technology in classrooms and well-intentioned but misguided counselors who shifted the focus of education from the pursuit of knowledge to the coddling of children’s feelings, Generation Z will be the first in U.S. history to score lower on cognitive measures and academic tests than previous generations.

Generally speaking, the 20-week anatomy scan is a blast. You’ve reached the halfway mark, and the baby is usually up and around, looking an awful lot like a tiny human being. This is (typically) the grand moment of a gender reveal, and your daydreams usually take on a distinctly pink or blue aura from this moment onward. As the ultrasound tech busily takes measurements, you watch in awe: sometimes the baby’s thumb drifts upward toward his little mouth, and your heart just kind of melts.

Three years after the Supreme Court’s 2023 landmark decision to strike down racial preferences in college admissions, the federal government is still triple-checking whether elite universities got the memo.

You probably saw this earlier in the week. If you didn’t, it’s worth seeing. Sen.

Americans will soon choose a set of senators who will take office in January 2027 and serve through early 2033. In the final months of that term, Social Security’s retirement trust fund is expected to run dry and trigger benefits cuts of 22 percent — not just for the wealthy, not just for new retirees, but for everyone up to and including widows living on survivors’ checks. Somehow, this has yet to sink into the national consciousness. The precise timing is a projection. The cuts are not.