Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the U.S. Department of Education to review and roll back federal policies that prevent teachers from disciplining disruptive students. It’s a long-overdue move. For over a decade, misguided federal guidance rooted in diversity, equity, and inclusion ideology and “disparate impact” theory has tied the hands […]
House Republicans held the mark-up last week for their reconciliation package, which includes several significant reforms to Medicaid, the federal-state entitlement that provides health benefits to roughly one in five Americans. The package is not perfect. But it would restore some measure of fiscal sanity to the program by, among other things, reining in the […]
Someone coming across the new book Hollywood High: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of Teen Movies might be fooled. The cover, a fun sky blue color and featuring the head shots of Matthew Broderick, Molly Ringwald, Sean Penn, James Dean, and other teen stars, makes the book seem like a breezy read through a cotton candy subject. […]
President Donald Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Syria was a smart gamble for a president with historic ambitions. On Tuesday in Saudi Arabia, Trump announced that he will lift all sanctions on Syria, many of which have been in place for decades. Then, on Wednesday, he met Syrian President Ahmed al Sharaa, the first […]
Pakistan has thanked Donald Trump for mediating a miraculous way out after its most vital military installations were cratered by Indian missile strikes.
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard has long positioned herself as a champion of free speech. But she just went on national television as a Trump administration official and suggested that one of the president’s political opponents should be prosecuted for speech that, reckless and contemptible as it may be, is protected by the First […]
New York may soon join 10 other states and Washington, D.C., in legalizing assisted suicide. The state Assembly passed the Medical Aid in Dying Act last month. The state Senate has yet to pass it, but 25 senators are sponsors of the bill. To pass, it needs the support of 32. Assisted suicide is well on […]
