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Charles Lipson writes for Real Clear Politics about a disturbing trend within American medical schools. America’s top medical schools, worried they have too few minority students, are doing something about…
Editors at the Washington Examiner ponder the consequences of paying people not to work. It has been almost two years since the economy recovered fully from the coronavirus pandemic, but…
Writing at City Jounal, John D. Sailer reports: Last month, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Board of Trustees passed a resolution reaffirming the Chicago Principles on free expression and adopting the Kalven…
The U.S. House and Senate voted along party lines to pass the latest tax and spend bill, “The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022,” (IRA) sending it to President Biden’s desk.…
Progressives have sought to use public schools to advance their social and political agenda for nearly a century. George Counts' 1932 pamphlet “Dare the School Build a New Social Order?”…
Inflation is at 9.1%, the economy is in a recession, and after a year of back and forth, Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Chuck Schumer (D-NY) agreed to a massive…
We all have witnessed examples of the worker shortage. Signs in business windows that read: “now hiring,” “please be patient, we are short on staff,” and “reduced hours” abound. The…
Today is the 92nd birthday of arguably the most influential social and political theorist of our generation, Thomas Sowell. Sowell has written over 30 books in his career that has spanned…
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…
During the Covid pandemic, government concocted many costly, “temporary” policies. Many of those have lingered well past their originally promised dates and expanded beyond their stated intentions, such as progressives…
Editors at Issues and Insights take a critical look at President Biden’s misguided political stunt involving the widespread cancellation of college students’ accumulated loan debt. His popularity flagging, President Joe…
John Fund writes at National Review Online about the bad news for states that faced lockdowns during the height of COVID-19 mania. The report card on how individual states handled…