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This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—May 17

1954—In Brown v. Board of Education, a unanimous Supreme Court abandons available originalist justifications for its ruling that state-segregated schools violate the Equal Protection Clause—justifications that would have…

Don’t Buy into Hantapanic

It’s extremely unlikely that the next pandemic is at hand.

Harvard and Yale Discover (Gasp!) the Importance of Viewpoint Diversity

But endowed chairs for conservative scholars won’t fix the problem.

Jürgen Habermas: A Serious Man

The late German thinker and teacher brought liberal secularism to the pinnacle of academic...

America has a plan to win the AI export race. Industry must deliver

The U.S. government’s new full-stack artificial intelligence program is the right strategic bet. Now American companies have to make it pay off. America has a plan to win the AI race. Now it’s time to execute. The administration’s AI Export Program is one of the clearest attempts in years to translate technological advantage into global […]

Deep dish or thin crust: Who am I to judge?

Manna, Scripture tells us, came down from heaven through the hand of God. Pizza, in turn, came to us from Naples, through New York City. Now, God has given us a pope from Chicago who has spent much of his life in Rome. And so the long-burning conflict between different pizza styles threatens to become […]

Congress must prioritize struggling families in budget talks

One of the things that drew me to endorse early a young, first-time U.S. Senate candidate from Ohio, JD Vance, was a sense of shared understanding and passion for the typical struggling family. Vance, now vice president, told his moving family story in his 2016 bestselling book (also a popular Ron Howard Netflix film) Hillbilly Elegy. To read […]

Surgeon general as spiritual guru

In a world of odd “spiritual” beliefs, Dr. Casey Means is no outsider. In fact, she is an effective channel for them. Means and her brother, Calley, are Stanford-educated medical professionals whose work focuses on functional medicine — the sort of root-cause and wellness interests that drive the “Make America Healthy Again” movement. The siblings […]

There are signs that the GOP is avoiding the Medicaid trap

Many Republican members of Congress have been leery of cuts to Medicaid, afraid of being tarred by Democratic attack ads. The recently released House Energy and Commerce Committee draft proposals should help them rest more easily because they avoid the classic Republican mistake: appearing to care more about saving money than saving lives. Democrats have […]

The rest of the story on Medicaid money laundering

Beneath the surface of Medicaid’s state-federal partnership lies a tangled web of financial sleight-of-hand that quietly drains federal coffers, shifts enormous costs from states to the federal government, and raises premiums on working people.  To explain the issue, last month, Paragon Health Institute released a report titled “Addressing Medicaid Money Laundering.” The term “Medicaid money laundering” was coined by the Wall Street Journal in […]

Is Jerome Powell batting for three strikes?

In baseball, three strikes and you’re out. Jerome Powell has already bungled two major challenges as chairman of the Federal Reserve. Based on last week’s Fed meeting, he’s going to strike out again. Powell’s first mistake was rushing Congress into appropriating trillions for unnecessary post-COVID-19 “recovery” spending. That sent inflation soaring to 9.2%, the highest […]

Let’s have an anti-communist film festival

One of my favorite places in my hometown of Washington, D.C. is the AFI Silver Theater in Silver Spring, Maryland. Every year, the AFI hosts wonderful film festivals featuring movies from Ireland, Africa, Iran, and other countries. They have festivals that feature certain directors of themes, such as the upcoming D.C. Labor Film Festival. So why not have an […]

A welcome de-escalation in the China trade war

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced a welcome pause in the Trump administration’s trade wars Sunday. A preliminary agreement with China will reduce U.S. tariffs on most Chinese imports from 145% to 30%, with a reciprocal reduction on U.S. exports to China from 125% to 10%. The reprieve is set to last only 90 days, however, […]

Qatar’s ‘Palace in the Sky’ jet is NOT a ‘free gift’ — and Trump shouldn’t accept it as one

Sorry, this “gift” is far from free; Qatar will surely expect something in return.

Heed Pope Leo’s warning on AI dangers — and don’t let Big Tech police itself

On Saturday, Leo XIV suggested that artificial intelligence will be a focus of his papacy, warning that the rise of AI poses "new challenges...

Don’s health care transparency fix, Hochul punts on spending cuts and other commentary

President Trump’s “executive order requiring ‘radical’ healthcare price transparency,” cheer Arthur B. Laffer & Cynthia A. Fisher at Fox News, “will revolutionize healthcare.”

NYC finally faces homelessness reality as Jessica Tisch’s NYPD ‘Q-Teams’ hit the streets

Public frustration with the city’s laissez-faire attitude toward homelessness has gotten politicians' attention — and new quality-of-life enforcement efforts are paying off, cops say.

Trump’s China deal is no victory, just a tourniquet for the economic bleeding

If it always seemed likely that there’d be a fig-leaf deal with China, there isn’t even a fig leaf here — just a promise...

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