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This op-ed originally appeared in the Richmond Times-Dispatch and the Greensboro News & Record. It is reprinted here with their permission. 2026 has become an unexpectedly fierce mid-decade continuation of…
Nicholas Ballasy writes for JustTheNews.com about an interesting response to the left-wing agendas of top leaders in Maryland and Virginia. Two Democrat governors trying to advance progressive policies on immigration…
Thomas Catenacci writes for the Washington Free Beacon about the money behind a new climate study in Maryland. The left-wing environmental nonprofit Rockefeller Family Fund (RFF) is bankrolling a study…
Susie Moore writes for RedState.com about a significant legal win for the Trump administration’s anti-waste efforts.
Thomas Lindsay writes for the Federalist about a disturbing new study involving American school kids. Increasingly widespread high school grade inflation can cost students more than $200,000 in lost earning…
Citing national security risks, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced on Dec. 22, 2025, that it was pausing the leases “for all large-scale offshore wind projects under construction in the…
Collin Anderson of the Washington Free Beacon highlights a key member of Nicolas Maduro’s legal team. Ousted Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s defense attorney is a prolific political donor who has…
M.D. Kittle writes for the Federalist about the political left’s top whoppers of the year. If it felt like 2025 was just one big psyop orchestrated by the Democrat Party…
Editors at Issues and Insights assess a disturbing response to recent revelations about government fraud in Minnesota. One of the unanswered questions raised by Minnesota’s massive welfare scandal is how…
Scott Johnson of the Powerline blog ponders questions surrounding a rising star in Democratic politics. Democrat Maryland Governor Wes Moore is an ambitious guy. The Washington Free Beacon now does…
M.D. Kittle writes for the Federalist about a key lesson from the recent high-profile case of an illegal alien who became a public school superintendent. The illegal alien who ran…
As part of the John Locke Foundation’s NC250: Freedom’s Vanguard initiative, this essay contest invited students, scholars, historians, and writers to explore North Carolina’s pivotal role in the American Revolution…