The Federalist

1 day ago | thefederalist.com | Elle Purnell

Are you stumped on what to buy for the graduate whose announcement just landed in your mailbox? Wondering what kids like these days, or whether those iTunes gift cards stuffed in the back of your gifting closet are still relevant? If you know someone graduating high school or college next month, and you’d like to gift something more personal than cash, try one of these thoughtful options. Is your high school graduate headed off to a college dorm?

1 day ago | thefederalist.com | Joy Pullmann

Indiana’s state treasurer repeatedly stood against big banks canceling accounts and releasing customer data of Christians and conservatives for viewpoint discrimination. A pending must-pass bill in Indiana’s Republican-run legislature would strip some of Treasurer Daniel Elliott’s powers and could give them to those same banks.

3 days ago | thefederalist.com | Gage Klipper

If you’ve been a teenager in the last 40 years, you’re sure to feel some nostalgia when you think of the characters in The Breakfast Club coming together at the end of the film. So it’s a bit bittersweet to learn that the cast actually never got together afterward. That changed this month, however, when the five stars of the film reunited in their first public appearance since the film’s 1985 release.

3 days ago | thefederalist.com | Josh Hammer

This is an adapted excerpt from Israel and Civilization: The Fate of the Jewish Nation and the Destiny of the West by Josh Hammer. Used with permission from Radius Book Group, a division of Diversion Publishing. In June 2024, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry signed a law making his state the first to mandate display of the Ten Commandments in all public school classrooms from kindergarten through university.

6 days ago | thefederalist.com | M.D. Kittle

When I was a kid, I got to take a tour of the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla. Enterprise, NASA’s first space shuttle orbiter, had arrived at the complex earlier that year. My parents got me a 7-inch cast-iron space shuttle with wheels. It was the coolest thing I had seen in my seven years on earth, and I had watched my older brother and his reform school friends construct some pretty awesome backyard forts. I knew in that humid Florida moment what I wanted to be: An astronaut.