This Day in Liberal Judicial Activism—February 3
By a vote of 97-0, the Senate confirms President Reagan’s nomination of Ninth Circuit judge Anthony M. Kennedy to fill the seat of retiring Justice Lewis Powell. Kennedy was Reagan’s third ...
Tennessee School Choice Advocates Celebrate a Legislative Win Decades in the Making
Lawmakers approved a $447 million statewide publicly funded school voucher program last week, with the 23-page bill easily passing in the Republican controlled senate (20–13) and house (54–44).
Trump Administration Orders Federal Employees to Remove Pronouns from Email Signatures
In a separate memo, the Defense Intelligence Agency paused celebrations of Black History Month and ten other ‘special observances.’ ...
When Union Activism Clashes with Workers’ Religious Beliefs
But his graduate student union championed the cause in emails and on social media, offering to help members facing university discipline. The union also committed itself to the BDS (boycott, ...
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Trump’s Tariff Folly
It’s Time for States to Break Their Dangerous Dependence on Federal Funds Conservatives Should Be Suspicious of Big Tech’s Sudden Favor If You Love Democracy, You Should Celebrate the End of ...
Will the Real Bobby Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard Please Stand Up?
The unsuitable nominees are obviously trying to backpedal just enough to get confirmed without any true change in their worldviews.
Trump Fights on Every Front at Once
Bush presidency, one of the major arguments made by the Buchananite wing -- now represented by Trump and JD Vance -- was that Bush-era Republican foreign policy was fighting on too ...
What Will U.S. Tariff Policy Be Tomorrow? Nobody Knows
If tariffs are part of some great national strategy, the transition team should have fleshed out that strategy, and the public has a right to know what it is.
FCC Chair Orders NPR, PBS Investigation That Could Undermine Case for Public Funding
I do not see a reason why Congress should continue sending taxpayer dollars to NPR and PBS,’ Brendan Carr, the FCC chairman, wrote in a letter.
Air Travel Is Astonishingly Safe, and This Accident Was No Politician’s Fault
The new Secretary of Transportation, Sean Duffy, was asked this morning whether air travel in the United States is safe. He said: “Can I guarantee the American flying public that the U.S. has the most ...
Judge Temporarily Halts Trump’s Freeze on Federal Grants, Loans
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the freeze is part of the Trump administration’s efforts to be ‘good stewards for tax dollars.’ ...
New Zealand Mountain Named a ‘Person’ with ‘Rights’ and ‘Responsibilities’
The law passed Thursday gives Taranaki Maunga all the rights, powers, duties, responsibilities and liabilities of a person. Its legal personality has a name: Te Kāhui Tupua, which the law views as “a ...