Boys will always have professional athletes and musicians to look up to, but as the New York Times’s Claire Cain Miller correctly notes, it is the adults that children “personally know” and see on a daily basis who have the most positive effect on children. And for boys, those role models are disappearing. Miller pieces […]
A powerful opponent of school choice, the National Education Association, made a great case against itself recently by secretly deciding to refer to President Donald Trump always as a fascist. America’s biggest teachers union, a propaganda and organizational arm of the Democratic Party, hid its convention decisions, but Corey DeAngelis, senior fellow of the American […]
Weeks before Argentina’s November 2023 presidential election, which saw the anarcho-capitalist economist Javier Milei ascend to power, 108 leading left-wing economists, including Thomas Piketty, Jayati Ghosh, and others penned an open letter denouncing the presidential front-runner. They wrote, “while apparently simple solutions may be appealing, they are likely to cause more devastation in the real world in the […]
That people get the government they deserve is a cruel adage, too cruel if you live in dark places where a small minority with guns terrorizes an unarmed population — see “Cuba, socialist state of.” But in a democracy, the maxim holds firmly. Which means that if the citizens of New York City vote in […]
Nearly four years after the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, America’s Afghan allies remain in limbo due to a combination of bureaucratic dawdling under the Biden administration and rapid-fire changes in policy under President Donald Trump. Among the thousands of Afghans feeling the effects of changes stateside are those who entered the country via the CBP […]
The NIH is working hard to rebrand its image after Fauci’s legacy of animal torture, risky research, and lies finally came to light and left the agency’s reputation in shambles. Unfortunately, much of the public relations work is turning out to be “all hat and no cattle” as they say in Texas — particularly when […]
President Donald Trump’s efforts to streamline the federal workforce and tame the bureaucracy have hit early snags as blue-state federal district judges side with the unions challenging the president’s actions. Whether the reforms ultimately succeed will likely depend on how higher courts rule. On that score, the Supreme Court handed the administration an early victory […]
My disillusionment with politics began in 2005. I was interning at the White House, fresh off George W. Bush’s reelection, which also saw the GOP claim the Senate and House. Optimism was in the air, at least for conservatives, but it didn’t last. The Iraq War soon took a very dark turn, and Hurricane Katrina […]
“My vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years.” The speaker was Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. The occasion was his testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health. “Wearing a wearable” is a goofy phrase in itself, and to the uninitiated, it’s almost nonsense. […]
Those of us who grew up in the 1980s are apt to associate the teen movie with other hallmarks of that decade’s culture, such as big hair, the Walkman, or Trump: The Game. Yet a new book demonstrates that the genre neither began nor ended with the Reagan administration. For better or for worse, movies […]