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Test scores have fallen to historic lows, student mobility has stalled, and the gap between top performers and their peers has widened. Data from the Department of Education and expert testimony show it is time for change. “It’s a problem from [kindergarten through 12th grade]. It needs to be answered in that way. We need […]

After days of hyperbolic hysteria, senseless fearmongering, performative outrage, and superfluous pearl-clutching, late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension ended, and the controversial left-wing host will return to his regular television time slot tonight on ABC. Kimmel was initially taken off the air due to dishonest and insensitive comments he made in the aftermath of […]

Zohran Mamdani, the self-avowed socialist who is likely to be the next mayor of New York, will decimate the Jewish community through his antisemitic rhetoric. After he promised last week to roll back the few safeguards put in place to protect the Jewish community, a bipartisan team in Congress entered the fight to stop him. […]

Former Vice President Kamala Harris is well-known for vilifying and demonizing her political opponents. Her harsh and inflammatory rhetoric was part of her routine as a senator from California and long before. Her vile attacks during Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court confirmation hearings revealed her true character as a politician, or lack thereof. This was only […]

How did the Left capture all the cultural institutions? The way Ernest Hemingway said a man goes bankrupt: “Gradually, then suddenly.” We even have a textbook example to study: the process that led to the Latino Museum. Conservatives who boast they are fighting the Long March Through the Institutions and yet keep acquiescing to the […]

Liberals in the media and the Democratic Party, if they want to regain the trust of the non-Left public, ought to use the week after Charlie Kirk’s assassination as a case study into their various pathologies. They believe the other side is evil, they rely on “disinformation experts” (the term makes one’s eyes roll), and […]

With defense appropriations season in full swing on Capitol Hill, offering Turkey military aid would only reward President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s threats against Washington’s allies, strain NATO’s cohesion, and enable Turkey’s further slide into autocracy. Members of Congress are in the midst of proposing several much-needed amendments to the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act. Among […]

Throughout this week, the Washington Examiner’s Restoring America project will feature its latest series titled “Reforming the Deep State: Reining in the Federal Bureaucracy.” We invited some of the best policy minds in the conservative movement to speak to the issues of what waste, fraud, abuse, and unaccountability exist throughout the federal government and what still needs […]

Aspiring Democratic lawmakers are competing to provoke the strongest reactions from Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers who are doing their duty, which will inevitably lead to more extreme rhetoric and violence. Democratic leaders, especially local leaders such as Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, have a duty to make it clear that […]