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This July 4, celebrate more than just fireworks
What follows is one of the great “Did You Knows” of history. Two of America’s Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, both died on July 4, 1826 — 50…
Ronald Reagan
president of the United States from 1981 to 1989 and actor (1911–2004)
Freedom Focus
Freedom Focus
Political friendship and the fracture of the American Right
American conservatism is experiencing its most serious internal strain since the collapse of the New Deal consensus. Disputes over trade, executive power, postliberalism, and the boundaries of the conservative coalition…
Law & Public Safety
Antonin Scalia died 10 years ago today
In commemoration, I’m reposting something I wtote about Justice Scalia at the time of his death. The title was “We shall not look upon his like again.” If constitutional government…
Liberty
Minnesota fraud should ‘wake up’ Democrats
Ruy Teixeira hopes fellow Democrats learn a lesson from the Minnesota welfare fraud scandal. The specter of welfare fraud haunts the Democrats once again. Concerns about abuse of generous government…
Research Brief
Elections & Public Integrity
North Carolina is about to have a new largest party
Soon, and for the first time since at least the Reconstruction era, Republicans will overtake Democrats as North Carolina’s largest political party. While that is an important milestone, North Carolina…
Liberty
Restoring strength of Reagan, Thatcher conservatism
Michael Strain of the American Enterprise Institute longs for the return of core conservative principles. Consider, for example, US President Donald Trump’s suggestion that the government should send households $2,000 tariff…
Liberty
Nonprofit focusing on civil service went ‘woke’
Aaron Sibarium writes for the Washington Free Beacon about one nonprofit group’s regrettable turn. The Volcker Alliance, founded in 2013 by Ronald Reagan’s Federal Reserve chair Paul Volcker, describes itself…
Freedom Focus
Freedom Focus
Liberalism, conservatism, and America’s vocabulary problem
I grew up a Rush Baby. Some of my earliest political memories come not from school or textbooks but from Rush Limbaugh’s unmistakable voice filling our car. I subscribed to…
Liberty
Reagan’s anti-tariff message spooks Trump
Matthew Continetti assesses President Donald Trump’s angry reaction to a recent television commercial. A voice from the past has shaken President Donald Trump. When Ontario’s provincial government ran a 60-second…
Liberty
Big Labor’s decline marks good news for America
Editors at National Review Online highlight an important development in the history of the American workforce. Labor Day this year is a cause for raucous celebration: For the first time,…
Education
NC at risk: Assessing academic achievement in the Carolinas
A new report shows that students across the Carolinas face many of the same problems identified by the Reagan administration in its landmark report A Nation at Risk more than…
Liberty
National Review touts Feulner’s key role in conservative movement
Editors at National Review Online assess Edwin Feulner’s key role in the American conservative movement. He entered Washington as a think-tank staffer, then became an adviser to Melvin Laird, first…