Vice President J.D. Vance’s new memoir, Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith, is not just another book tour. It’s a public reckoning with faith from a man who sits in the second-highest office in the land. Released this summer, the memoir has prompted interviews, cultural pushback, and predictable political finger-pointing. For conservatives who care More

Connecticut’s Attorney General has quietly put out a request for outside law firms to help the state sue gun makers — and he’s asking those firms to prove how well they score on the diversity checklist before he’ll even consider them. The RFP is a clear new move to marshal pro bono legal muscle for More

The new paper in Geophysical Research Letters by Roldán‑Gómez and colleagues has jolted the climate conversation. The study argues that Europe’s recent run of hotter, longer summers is tied not just to greenhouse gases but also to a sharp drop in sulfate aerosols over the continent since about 1980. In plain terms: cleaning the air More