Author: Aron Solomon

First appeared in Boxscore News. By Aron Solomon, Caroline Garcia is an amazing tennis player. The Lyonnaise won November’s WTA Finals, capping a year that saw her rise all the way from 142nd in the world to number 4. So it caught my attention just after Christmas when I saw that Garcia was shilling for something called royaltiz. At first glance, I couldn’t tell if this was supposed to be the next big thing in sports gambling, if it was simply a bad idea to separate people from their money, or potentially the next FTX. As they indicate on their…

Tuesday’s vote to elect a new Speaker of the House quickly progressed from amusing to interesting to deeply compelling to actually historical. With the House set to resume efforts today at noon to actually elect a Speaker (to do some pretty important things, such as swear in new members of the House) there is no chance (please!) that 2023 will come when close to 1856 in the complexity of electing a new Speaker. The 1856 House of Representatives leadership election was a significant moment in American history, as it marked the first time that a Speaker of the House was…

As first appeared in Western Journal. For those of us who are doomscrolling our social media feeds these days, a term that we’re coming across is “margin call.” If you follow Elon Musk, it’s something that has been discussed at length over the past couple of weeks in relation to Tesla’s slumping stock price. As of Tuesday morning, not long after trading opened, this is what the totality of Tesla’s year looked like: No Tesla stakeholder, from Musk himself down to someone who owns one share of Tesla stock, is happy with a 71 percent decline in 2022. Experts believe…

Tim Sandle The disposal of pharmaceuticals and the waste generated from pharmaceutical production has an environmental impact, particularly in waterways. The extent of this varies by geography and in relation to the extent of local regulations and the willingness to comply with these regulations. Environmental concerns foremost relate to the detection of trace levels of pharmaceuticals in drinking water (from stimulants and antibiotics to analgesics and antihistamines; plus, scientific evidence of abnormalities in aquatic organisms, and the contribution that some pharmaceuticals make to the spread of antimicrobial resistance. The consequence of a lack of a coherent global (and often national)…

By Mark Dickinson Teachers face a Herculean task both connecting with children and building a sense of community to foster learning, a task even more challenging in diverse, often marginalized groups. Sometimes, the solution is as simple as turning on a soccer match. I teach middle school in a rural, Georgia county with kids from 32 countries, speaking 18 languages. It’s tricky enough for people from the same culture to get along, not to mention the problems that can arise when children mix English, Urdu, and Korean, or attempt to relate to one another’s customs, as dissimilar as the Battle…

Bored Ape Yikes Club What do bored apes have in common with a disgraced crypto platform? The answer is lawsuits. Following the rash of lawsuits aimed at celebrity endorsers of SBF’s FTX, this week brought lawsuits against similarly-situated celebrities and influencers who pumped up Bored Ape Yacht Club’s NFTs. Both the FTX and BAYC suits are just beginning, so I’m going to share some opening ideas here, first, in Today’s Esquire. I see a massive difference between the FTX and BAYC celebrity endorsements. FTX was, though it seems ridiculous in hindsight, a respected crypto platform, seen as relatively safe and…

Our chief legal analyst, Aron Solomon, was on FOX LIveNOW this morning to discuss Brittney Griner’s release from her wrongful imprisonment in Russia and the prospects for fellow detainee Paul Whelan’s release.

Prisoner Swapped My Thursday morning tweet summed it up: After ten months of wrongful detention in the former Soviet Union, Brittney Griner was sent from Moscow to the UAE, in transit to the United States, as part of a prison exchange for “Merchant of Death,” Viktor Bout. Scenes from the prisoner swap on a tarmac in the United Arab Emirates were surreal. Left behind is Paul Whelan, the former Marine who has been in Russian captivity since December, 2018. Griner’s wife, Cherelle, shared the Thursday morning stage with President Biden, acknowledging the hard work the Biden administration did to secure…

Should the USMNT Have Been Defaulted In a Monday Twitter rant, I dived into a new World Cup scandal. The official Twitter account of the U.S. Men’s National Team posted the flag of Iran, first having removed the Islamic Republic symbol from the flag, as you can see here: In response to what they saw as desecration of their flag, Iran state media immediately threw down the gauntlet, asking FIFA to suspend the USMNT for ten games, which would obviously give them a win in their make-or-break match on Tuesday, eliminating them from the tournament. As we know, on Tuesday,…

Was Elizabeth Holmes’s Sentence Fair? Last Friday, Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to 135 months for her role as Theranos’ founder and CEO, in making numerous misrepresentations to potential investors about Theranos’s financial condition and its prospects. Attorney Lauren Scardella, who practices criminal defense law, points out that “the 135 month sentence fits well within the sentencing guidelines for the crimes she was convicted of.” A superb NPR piece this week highlighted exactly why Holmes was sentenced as she was and echoes what I have said for the past year on many TV appearances, including this one on FOX Business. The…