Idaho’s minute-of-silence law already gives parents responsibility for guiding their children and teachers authority to manage their classrooms. Why, then, does every ordinary challenge seem to require another policy from Boise? This editorial examines how calls for helpful government guidance can gradually move everyday decisions away from families and toward the state.

Twenty-five years later, the record is still simple: they came for us and they killed civilians. Americans born here still call 9/11 an inside job. I can fight the enemy who says Death to America. I do not know how to face the neighbor who says it in softer words. Four planes were hijacked. Since then I have watched a slower hijacking of the story a country tells about itself. Ask who benefits.

Social media was supposed to connect us, but manufactured outrage, artificial social proof and algorithms can turn real people into unintended participants in manipulation. What if we redesigned social media around human relationships, better publishing tools, earned reputation and local discovery—and gave people more control over the experience?

The British series The Undeclared War is billed as a thriller. Watch it and it feels closer to a documentary. Years of research sit behind a story about cyber attacks, influence operations, and a fight most people never see. The harder question is whether those same methods also run at home—and what happens to a country when trust becomes the battlefield. Worth watching. Then talk about it.