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What We’re Reading: Mideast On Edge, Antisemitism’s Return, Trump’s Tariffs . . . And More

News, issues and events that caught our eye.

Is Mideast Nearing Another War?

Israeli strikes shut down Sanaa International airport in Yemen — The Jerusalem Post

Iran Threatens U.S. Bases ‘Wherever They Are’ as New Ballistic Missile Revealed — Breitbart

Israel announces operation Gideon’s Chariots to seize control of Gaza if hostage deal deadline missed — IntelliNews, via MSN

7 Iranians Arrested in UK Over Terror Plot “Hours Away” — Front Page Magazine

What the Hell Is Going on in Iran This Time? — PJ Media

What’s the endgame in Gaza? — Saul Sadka, The Saulstack

Will Tariffs Save The U.S. Economy, Or Kill It?

Treasury’s Bessent Urges Investors to Bet on Trump’s Economic Plan for ‘Industrial Abundance’ — Breitbart

How Harding Got the Twenties Roaring — Robert Spencer, Front Page Magazine

A better alternative to tariffs — American Thinker

Tariffs Instead of Taxes? A Back-of-Envelope Estimate — The Daily Economy

Tariffs: Look who’s blinking now — American Thinker

Bill Ackman: What’s important is that tariffs get resolved in the relative short term — CNBC, via YouTube

Trump Saves Hollywood . . . Maybe

Trump to Impose 100% Tariff on Movies Produced in Foreign Countries — American Greatness

Trump Willing to Meet with Hollywood Bosses on Tariffs: ‘I Want to Help the Industry, We’re All About Jobs’ — Breitbart

“Everyone Loses”: Trump’s Movie Tariffs Plan Catches Hollywood Off Guard — Hollywood Reporter

Preventing Hollywood’s ‘very fast death’ could become Trump’s 9th national emergency — Yahoo Finance

Antisemitism’s Troubling Resurgence

Antisemitism: The Modern Forces Fueling an Ancient Scourge — American Greatness

Progressives Warn That John Fetterman Suffers from Acute Pro-Israel-itis — National Review, via Archive.today

Scathing Harvard Report Details Pervasive Anti-Semitism Driven By ‘Politicized Instruction’ — Washington Free Beacon

Terror in the making — Tom Knighton, Substack

Leftist psychotherapists claim Zionism is a form of psychopathic mental illness — American Thinker

China Struggles To Survive Trump’s Tariffs, Falling Fertility

Trump’s Tariffs Trigger Turmoil In China As Country’s Economic Tailspin Intensifies Per New Data — Daily Caller News Foundation, via Independent Journal Review

Trade War Fallout in China a Mystery; Beijing Stopped Reporting Key Economic Data — Legal Insurrection

Chinese Companies Moving To Texas, Nevada To Avoid Trump’s Tariffs — Daily Caller

Tariffs Are Having a Dramatic Impact on China’s Economy — Hot Air

China Erupts: Furious Workers Riot As Factories Collapse Under Trump’s Tariffs — Daily Caller

Bureaucratic Incentives and Effectiveness of the One Child Policy in China — National Bureau of Economic Research (study)

Blue State Blues

125,000 New Yorkers Fled For Florida The Last 5 Years, Taking $14 Billion With Them — Zero Hedge

Lefty policies come with additional costs — Tilting At Windmills

Environmental ideologues enjoying the Colorado taxpayer dime — Complete Colorado

Can Education Be Fixed?

Refactoring Education: Focus on Achievement, Not Social Engineering — PJ Media

Make Universities Great Again — Michael Walsh, The Pipeline

The Politicized Mind: How the University Lost Its Way — Roger Kimball, American Greatness

Qatar and China Are Pouring Billions Into Elite American Universities — The Free Press

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