A good indicator of the kind of legislator a candidate for office will be is who donates to their campaign. That is even more true when it comes to teachers unions donating to Republicans. For the past few years, states with Republican majorities in their legislatures have pushed hard to enact universal school choice bills. […]

The crisis in Haiti continues to grow as heavily armed criminal gangs escalate their attacks on the police, government, and logistics infrastructure. Port-au-Prince’s Toussaint Louverture Airport looms large here. While an attempt to seize the airport was defeated on Monday, the gangs clearly hold the initiative and are likely to conduct other such assaults. They […]

Liberal media’s institutional focus on protecting Democratic politicians actually leaves Democrats in worse positions than they would be in if those outlets did their jobs with any integrity. This is on display with each poll showing that former President Donald Trump is beating President Joe Biden in various states and in national polling. But it […]

Attorney General Merrick Garland has proven himself to be one of the most toxic and destructive partisans in politics. He also proves that rot has taken hold in the Democratic Party. Garland on Sunday declared that voter ID laws are discriminatory, repeating the Democratic Party line that implies Democrats think black people aren’t smart enough […]

Notwithstanding a possible ceasefire that sees Israeli hostages released by Hamas, the Israeli government will not rest until it has eliminated those it deems responsible for the Oct. 7 attacks. The visceral sadistic and sexual brutality of those attacks and the psychological-physical damage they caused to Israel’s security architecture are defining for Israel. Whether it […]

TRUMP LAWFARE UPDATE. Former President Donald Trump’s victory in the Supreme Court 14th Amendment case, together with delay and disorder in the criminal cases against him, has set off panic among Democrats who hoped to use prosecutions and other legal maneuvers to keep Trump from winning a second term. “Supreme Court ruling darkens critics’ hopes for […]

While it’s never quiet in the House of Windsor, it is undeniable that over the past few weeks, the British monarchy has suffered from a public relations crisis. You have a king with cancer — type unknown, seriousness unknown — who has stepped back in order to undergo treatment for an unspecified amount of time. […]

For every other issue on the planet, libertarians fervently believe Milton Friedman’s old adage, “There is no such thing as a free lunch.” But for immigration, Friedman’s wise words suddenly fly out the window. Libertarian think tank scholars would have you believe that importing cheap foreign labor is a win-win for everybody. Employers get cheap […]

Californians cast their ballots in November 2020 on perhaps the most-watched state initiative in America that year: Proposition 16. The referendum sought to repeal Proposition 209, a 1996 initiative based on the 1964 Civil Rights Act that amended California’s Constitution to prohibit government institutions from discriminating on the basis of race, sex, or ethnicity in […]

President Biden was projected to win Iowa’s Democratic caucus, according to Decision Desk HQ. After negotiations with the Democratic National Committee (DNC) over a shakeup to the party’s nominating calendar, Iowa Democrats sent out mail-in presidential preference cards and held in-person precinct caucus meetings back in January — but made plans to announce the mail-in...