Archive for August 2025

The highest court in the land is supposed to at least have the appearance of impartiality. Beginning in 1989, before we all knew that Clarence Thomas was zipping around on private jets to fancy vacations, the rule was that justices could not accept gifts, and they could only earn 15% additional income from teaching. The one exception: there are no limits to income from publishing books. …. Sonya Sotomayor has now earned nearly $4 million from various book deals. In 2023 Ketanji Brown Jackson reported that she received a $2 million advance for her memoir, Lovely One, while Amy Coney Barrett earned a $2 million advance from Sentinel (an imprint of Penguin Random House) for her debut memoir coming this fall. Neil Gorsuch has earned $500,000 for his 2024 book from HarperCollins, and Brett Kavanaugh, the mention of whose name causes countless women to involuntarily shudder, has his own deal to publish with an imprint of Hachette.

PragerU hasn’t worked very hard to hide its ambition to shape the minds of America’s youth. Dennis Prager himself admitted that his organization is in the business of indoctrination. While speaking at a Moms for Liberty conference in 2023, Prager said, “It’s true that we [PragerU] bring doctrines to children. But what is the bad thing about our indoctrination?” So far, PragerU has partnered with ten states to allow the optional use of its educational content in classrooms, and has developed an “ideology test” that educators who come to teach in Oklahoma from progressive states must pass.

Founded by conservative radio host Dennis Prager in 2009, Prager University (notably not an actual university) is known for its inflammatory and misleading viral videos that it has long created for teens and adults. But in 2021, the nonprofit launched a kids vertical, designing political and historical content aimed at children. The operation has since gained educational footholds in ten states, where teachers now show students PragerU videos, despite its not being an accredited academic institution.

APA Labs has launched a Digital Badge Program to help consumers and clinicians identify trustworthy digital mental health tools through science-based evaluations of safety, privacy, clinical value, and usability.

According to Eurostat data, more than 50 percent of retirees in Cyprus, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, and Latvia who continue working do so for strictly economic reasons