Liberty
Exploring Dems’ fascination with socialism
Editors at Issues and Insights highlight the return of socialism to American political debate. No one who’s kept up with U.S. politics even minimally over the last four decades should…
Hugo Chávez
52nd President of Venezuela from 1999 to 2013 (born 1954–2013)
Liberty
Venezuelan opposition leader offers warning to NYC
Sarah Anderson writes for PJMedia.com about insightful commentary from Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado. She also explained that a free and prosperous Venezuela is part of our own national…
Liberty
Reminding the Right About RFK Jr.’s Wrongs
Matt Welch writes for Reason about important pieces of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s history. Ever since the 69-year-old conspiratorial activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declared his candidacy for the Democratic…
Liberty
THE PEOPLE OF SAN FRANCISCO GOT WHAT THEY WANTED … GOOD AND HARD
The recent recall of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin seems like a good occasion to revisit what I wrote about Boudin just after he was elected in 2019. In Leftist…
Elections & Public Integrity
Flashback: Putting Cuomo’s Decision to Grant Clemency to David Gilbert in Context
In what may turn out to be his last official act, earlier this week disgraced New York Governor Andrew Cuomo granted clemency to convicted murderer David Gilbert. For readers who…
Research Brief
Law & Public Safety
Leftist Children of Privilege Play by Different Rules
San Francisco has a new district attorney, and his name is Chesa Boudin. His background is interesting, not just for what it reveals about San Francisco’s voters but also for…
Liberty
Shocker! Prominent NYT blog shows bias against the political right
David Rutz of the Washington Free Beacon shines light on another case of mainstream media bias. “The Interpreter” blog and newsletter at the New York Times is more likely to…
Liberty
Daily Journal: Freedom, not socialism, offers path to better outcomes
John Locke Foundation’s Mitch Kokai writes for Carolina Journal‘s Daily Journal: The index measures freedom in five areas: government size, property rights, sound money, free trade, and regulatory burden. Once…
Education
Leef’s latest Martin Center column focuses on higher education and fascism
George Leef writes for the Martin Center about higher education and the threat of fascism. In a recent essay published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Yale philosophy professor Jason…
Liberty
Targeting Venezuela’s tyrant
Editors at the Washington Examiner offer an idea for addressing socialist Venezuela‘s woes. Meeting with the president of Chile at the White House on Friday, President Trump pledged to continue…
Elections & Public Integrity
Keeping term limits
John Fund explains at National Review Online how the examples of Russia and China remind us about the importance of term limits. Disposing of term limits has always been a…
Elections & Public Integrity
Term limits in the Western hemisphere
John Fund of National Review Online analyzes the current state of term limits in North and South America. [S]everal other Latin American countries have seen their term-limit laws neutered or…