The Success Academy's just-released report on New York City public-school failure is so shocking and troubling that even anti-charter-school teachers unions should be shaking in horror.
The Success Academy's just-released report on New York City public-school failure is so shocking and troubling that even anti-charter-school teachers unions should be shaking...
A quarter of a millennium ago, the United States was founded. Unlike other global powers of that era, which were ruled by despotic kings wielding nearly absolute authority over their subjects, the U.S. distinguished itself as the first nation in history to establish sovereignty with its people protected by a system of separate powers among […]
Protests targeting “Zionists” in America quickly crossed partisan lines. Antifa-aligned and “social justice” networks on the Left turned campuses and cities into sites of disruption and eliminationist rhetoric. Right-wing groups such as Patriot Front ran parallel actions with banners like “No Zionists in Government,” advancing antisemitic appeals inside white-nationalist programs. Both represent collectivist extremism. Fascism […]
As America emerges from its 250th anniversary, it is worth recalling what made the American experiment exceptional in the first place. The formula was never especially complicated: Our rights come from God, not government; all people possess those rights equally; government is legitimate only by the consent of the governed; and each generation bears a […]
In 2008, a majority of the Supreme Court decided that executing a man who raped his eight-year-old stepdaughter so violently that she required emergency surgery violated the Constitution’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. That’s the holding of Kennedy v. Louisiana, 554 U.S. 407. Four justices disagreed. Sixteen years later, multiple states have passed laws […]
When my husband Dave and I learned that two of our three daughters had a fatal genetic disease, we entered the kind of nightmare for which no parent can fully prepare. Both girls — Keira and Livvy — were diagnosed with metachromatic leukodystrophy, or MLD, a rare degenerative disorder that destroys the nervous system and […]
President Donald Trump has announced that he will withdraw the United States from the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement that he negotiated in 2018. The USMCA replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement, which was negotiated by the Clinton administration in 1992. Criticisms of NAFTA included labor and environmental exploitation, claims of corrupt multinational corporations illegally profiting through […]
The teachers unions are scared and desperate these days. How else do you explain the spectacle of Randi Weingarten and Becky Pringle, presidents of the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association, respectively, firing off an open letter to the nation’s Democratic governors? What has them so frightened? A new federal tax credit […]
The tragic toll in deaths, injuries, and destruction from Venezuela’s massive earthquakes is not fully known, but it certainly can only increase. The death count rises daily. Initial estimates put the destruction at $6.7 billion, affecting nearly 7 million people, including 2 million in Caracas, the capital city. As rescue efforts continue, and relief and reconstruction […]
As leaders gather for the high-stakes NATO Summit in Ankara this week, the trans-Atlantic alliance stands at a historic crossroads, confronted by two defining crises: the Russia-Ukraine War and the simmering confrontation between the U.S. and Iran. What critics previously decried as a widening chasm between Washington and Brussels is instead coalescing into a sharp, […]
In March 1982, about 6,000 people gathered in Detroit to launch what they hoped would become America’s democratic socialist movement. The average age in the room was somewhere north of 60. The founding chairman was Michael Harrington, a Catholic intellectual who had advised Martin Luther King Jr. and wrote The Other America: Poverty in the […]
Healthcare is one of our economy’s fastest-growing sectors, and the ability of healthcare providers to manipulate Congress is a big reason why. A modest reform meant to shield patients from surprise medical bills has become a multibillion-dollar windfall for hospitals, doctors, lawyers, and arbitrators. Patients pay the price through higher insurance premiums. Congress must fix […]
