The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. Learn more from

Adventures in terrible UX. The Adelaide Metro app password field has a character limit. The password field on its website portal doesn’t.

Stephen Millies writing for RNS:

Justice Kavanaugh told the country that race based immigration sweeps were safe because any citizen caught up in them would be "promptly" released. ProPublica just walked that reassurance out to the parking lot under the fluorescent lights and showed us what really happens.

This is a spectacularly important study. Published in Nature, it provides solid evidence that this platform pushes those on the right further to the right, more pro-Trump, more pro-Russia,… And that these effects are programmed into the platform nature.com/articles/s4158…

Look, I know this site heaves with angry outbursts from people who wouldn’t engage with a complex argument if it was tied around their ankles, but this piece warrants a full reading. A serious liberal democracy would not ignore its international and human rights responsibilities

This should be a bigger story. ICE detained a father when he stepped outside his apartment to pick up dinner. His 6-year-old daughter was left alone. Neighbors later found her outside, crying in the street, asking for her father. If any local law enforcement agency conducted an

A few thoughts: 1) This attack should not have happened without Congressional authorization. This is no mere technicality -- it's the framer's foundational design for how the republic should wage war. 2) Khamenei's death is a great victory, but we've all been on this

Iran has now confirmed the death of Khamenei. aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/…

That money was enough to save the lives of more than 3 million children worldwide, with nutritional paste for malnutrition, bed nets against malaria, vaccination programs and community health workers. Instead we spent it blowing up people and things, and raising gas prices.

A lot of people think the $50 billion/yr NDIS will send the country bankrupt. But funny how the $30 billion/yr we’ve spent on superannuation fees for the past couple of decades hasn’t attracted much attention nor sent us bankrupt.

We are destroying our future and our children’s futures. Funding medical research and should be one of the highest priorities of our generation. Yet we are decimating and dismantling it all while diseases keep rising. Let’s remember who did this.

This isn’t monetary policy. It’s a transfer of workers wages to the wealthy. I am a board member of the John Curtin Research Centre, and delighted to see Lachlan Kerwood-McCall appointed as our new in-house economist. His op-ed is exactly why. Lachlan’s piece details something

Imagine Biden’s FCC chair going to a left-wing conference and bragging about getting Fox hosts fired and new liberal ownership for rightwing media outlets.

Well, that’s just great.

Mike Levin An unqualified former TV host is tearing through the senior ranks of the U.S. military, and the entire Republican Party is staying silent because they’re afraid of angering Trump. This is what happens when political loyalty outranks merit, experience, and the chain of command.

Kurt Schlichter Right then. Let me explain something very slowly, because it appears some basic logic has gone missing somewhere over the Atlantic. No serious nation in the history of warfare has spent fourteen months insulting its allies, threatening to annex their territory, siding with their

We don't know the real terms of the ceasefire. We don't know if it will last. We do know that American forces were not ordered to commit a crime against humanity tonight -- an event that could break the military and trigger a constitutional crisis. I'm relieved, but I'm also

A few weeks ago I had a conversation with an American who genuinely believed Europe and Canada would help the United States in its war with Iran. I asked him why he thought that, given that Trump had spent months threatening to annex Canada and seize Greenland. He went quiet.

I’ve said before that the most surprising thing to me about Americans’ reaction to the Trump era has been the relative indifference to flagrant corruption. I didn’t expect it and I don’t understand it. It’s the deadliest poison they’ve injected into the Republic’s bloodstream.