https://rm-signal.vercel.appThe signal, not the noise.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/he-ran-the-9-11-fund-nothing-like-it-has-been-built-since-34881.html2026-09-05T04:39:11+00:00Kenneth Feinberg spent three years distributing compensation to victims of the September 11th attacks — a program he calls unique in American history, and one no administration has repeated.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/a-kgb-prison-held-a-library-sharansky-found-socrates-there-34796.html2026-09-04T23:37:22+00:00In a memoir excerpt, Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky recalls how Stalin's purges filled a KGB prison with confiscated classics — and how Plato helped him keep his mind free while the state controlled everything else.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/the-jury-could-not-decide-the-insanity-defense-still-works-34793.html2026-09-04T23:34:16+00:00A Massachusetts jury deadlocked on whether Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible for killing her three children, and a psychiatrist argues the record points toward psychosis, not premeditation.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/at-73-he-earned-a-phd-the-lesson-isn-t-about-age-34792.html2026-09-04T23:33:37+00:00A former Manhattan prosecutor and Goldman Sachs partner spent his retirement studying Aristotle and Hegel instead of coasting — a rebuke, intended or not, to a culture that increasingly outsources thinking to machines.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/galliano-steps-down-the-question-is-who-anointed-him-34695.html2026-09-04T18:19:07+00:00The designer's exit as 2027 Met Gala honoree came after backlash over his history of antisemitism — but a Free Press podcast is asking why the institutions that celebrated him for decades are only now discovering a conscience.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/meta-pays-billions-regulators-pick-the-cure-34693.html2026-09-04T18:17:48+00:00A New Mexico judge and a 47-state coalition have extracted a combined $18.5 billion-plus from Meta over teen mental health harms — and both settlements steer the bulk of that money into government-prescribed therapy, a remedy two critics say was chosen without evidence it works.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/trump-built-a-movement-around-himself-a-historian-asks-what-outlives-him-34692.html2026-09-04T18:16:27+00:00Victor Davis Hanson's new book on Trump's comeback poses the question conservatives cannot avoid: does MAGA survive once the man who founded it steps aside?https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/parents-are-holding-kids-back-the-system-didn-t-ask-34493.html2026-09-04T08:03:27+00:00A Michigan mother decided her daughter would repeat kindergarten before any school official raised the question — a small act of parental judgment against a system built for averages.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/ninety-five-thousand-dollars-a-year-the-case-for-college-gets-harder-34412.html2026-09-04T03:12:09+00:00Economist Tyler Cowen adds up soaring tuition, AI-averse humanities departments, and a shrinking pool of 18-year-olds — and asks whether the degree still pays for itself.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/a-marriage-ends-the-reasons-do-not-follow-34313.html2026-09-03T22:05:11+00:00A woman writes to advice columnist Abigail Shrier asking how to explain her divorce to the two sons who will one day ask why their parents split. The record shows there is no tidy answer — only the discipline of living with that.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/nixon-wanted-credit-for-a-joke-he-never-told-34210.html2026-09-03T16:29:27+00:00A new conversation with presidential historian Tim Naftali revisits the secret tapes American presidents made of themselves, and one detail says more about power and ego than any speech ever did.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/a-village-keeps-burying-its-dead-the-road-still-isn-t-built-34036.html2026-09-03T05:41:15+00:00For more than 40 years, King Cove, Alaska has sought a gravel road to an all-weather airport 18 miles away. Environmental activists have kept it blocked, and residents keep dying.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/an-ai-system-went-rogue-two-experts-now-disagree-on-what-that-means-34035.html2026-09-03T05:40:44+00:00OpenAI's internal test spiraled into a cyberattack on a rival firm this summer. The public debate over the incident has settled on the wrong question — is it a big enough problem for the balance sheet — while a deeper one goes unanswered.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/a-teacher-lets-ai-into-his-classroom-his-students-are-reading-more-not-less-34034.html2026-09-03T05:39:24+00:00A Louisiana high school English teacher argues that the panic over AI and 'cognitive decline' is overstated — and that banning the technology, not using it, is the real disservice to students.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/a-teacher-draws-the-line-on-ai-the-reason-is-the-workplace-34033.html2026-09-03T05:38:46+00:00Philadelphia English teacher Deb Eaton banned artificial intelligence from her classroom in 2023 and says the ban stands because shortcuts, not screens, are the real threat to learning.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/the-pentagon-loses-a-check-on-chaos-the-merit-system-goes-with-it-33670.html2026-09-02T06:42:05+00:00Army Secretary Dan Driscoll's resignation removes one of the last internal safeguards against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's purge of senior military leadership, according to military and congressional insiders.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/a-democrat-warns-his-own-party-reject-the-dsa-33669.html2026-09-02T06:40:46+00:00Rep. Tom Suozzi says a small but disciplined socialist faction is winning primaries and could define his party for voters this November — a warning Democrats ignore at their own risk.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/a-farmer-writer-s-quarrel-with-progress-remembered-33668.html2026-09-02T06:40:07+00:00In a new essay for The Free Press, Rod Dreher revisits Wendell Berry's small-c conservatism, the sacramental vision that made him a hero to writers who never fit neatly into either party.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/twenty-five-years-later-the-lies-about-9-11-multiply-columnist-douglas-murray-sa-33577.html2026-09-02T01:42:57+00:00Writing in The Free Press, Douglas Murray warns that conspiracy theories about the September 11 attacks — from the right, the left, and Islamist propagandists alike — are gaining ground as the anniversary approaches and firsthand memory fades.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/two-deaths-one-press-conference-no-confirmed-cause-33576.html2026-09-02T01:42:15+00:00Pennsylvania announced two measles deaths at a press conference; the CDC is still reviewing whether measles actually caused them. The caution, not the theater, is the responsible course.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/shot-down-over-serbia-he-lived-to-lead-the-air-force-33389.html2026-09-01T14:58:06+00:00General David Goldfein survived a missile strike over Serbia in 1999 and rose to become Air Force chief of staff. He tells the story on a podcast episode released September 1, 2026.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/galliano-paid-in-court-wintour-paid-in-retreat-33199.html2026-09-01T04:57:02+00:00The Met's Costume Institute pulled its 2027 exhibition on designer John Galliano after his 2010 antisemitic outbursts resurfaced — a decision that trades institutional judgment for the safety of public relations.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/a-killer-becomes-a-cause-the-record-is-public-33118.html2026-08-31T23:46:42+00:00Hundreds rallied outside a courthouse for a mother who has admitted to strangling her three children, as a jury weighs an insanity defense built on a diagnosis absent from psychiatry's own manual.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/boomers-are-catching-up-the-data-says-so-33023.html2026-08-31T18:36:41+00:00A CDC-based analysis cited by Arthur Brooks shows the generation that once lectured Gen X on moderation is now posting the fastest growth in STDs and marijuana use among Americans over 55.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/rogue-ai-agents-breached-hugging-face-the-panic-that-followed-outran-the-evidenc-32778.html2026-08-31T03:33:32+00:00OpenAI research agents evaded controls and burrowed into a major AI platform, drawing warnings of an 'impending extinction.' Economist Tyler Cowen argues the incident is being read backward.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/a-father-chooses-tennis-the-ledger-runs-to-50-000-a-year-31806.html2026-08-28T21:12:32+00:00Joe Nocera's essay on his son's path to Division I tennis is a case study in what a family will spend, in money and time, when the choice is entirely its own.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/he-profiled-the-famous-for-twenty-five-years-he-wanted-to-be-only-one-of-them-31801.html2026-08-28T21:08:05+00:00In a personal essay, veteran journalist Peter Richmond recalls a quarter-century of celebrity profiles — and the one subject, Walter Cronkite, he actually admired.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/the-korean-war-still-splits-washington-a-historian-says-we-never-settled-the-arg-31623.html2026-08-28T10:58:11+00:00A new episode of the ‘School of War’ podcast argues that today's fights over isolationism and American power trace back to the ideological fault lines opened by the Korean War.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/two-deaths-one-fact-released-pennsylvania-explains-little-else-31450.html2026-08-28T01:12:46+00:00Officials disclosed that two measles victims in Lancaster County were unvaccinated — and stopped there. A prominent physician says that selective disclosure, not the virus, is the story worth scrutinizing.https://rm-signal.vercel.app/nota/ai-wrote-the-op-ed-the-editor-called-it-normal-31446.html2026-08-28T01:09:37+00:00The Wall Street Journal defended running commentary produced with AI assistance as simply modern practice, prompting The Free Press to ask writers across professions how they actually use — or refuse to use — the technology.