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TEACHERS' UNIONS, DEMS FIGHT TO KEEP SCHOOLS SHUT

Enough is enough, declared Jeremy Levine, a featured speaker at the teachers union rally. You will not sacrifice our lives, disrupt...

ON FREE SPEECH AT STANFORD

What is the purpose of academic freedom? Is it to allow all kinds of ideas to be expressed and explored, protecting even speech that...

WHY LA WAS EPICENTER OF COLLEGE ADMISSIONS SCANDAL

The new book Guilty Admissions explores the culture that created the shocking con that rocked the academic world.

THE BIG IDEA FROM BILL GATES'S NEW CLIMATE BOOK

Lately, Bill Gates has been thinking about what he calls the "hard stuff" of climate change. He isn't talking about the challenges...

THE GOVERNMENT CENSORS ARE HERE

PRESIDENT BIDEN BENDS TO THE AYATOLLAH

TIGER'S ACCIDENT HAS US ROOTING FOR ANOTHER COMEBACK

The first reaction is relief, because it must be. Tiger Woods' injuries are, according to the Los Angeles Fire Department, severe but...

LEADERSHIP BUILDS AMERICA-FIRST ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE

Earlier this month, winter storms caused an energy crisis in states from Texas to South Dakota.

THE BIG IDEA FROM BILL GATES'S NEW CLIMATE BOOK

HOW REPUBLICANS CAN BEAT CUOMO IN 2022

For two years, New York Republicans have proclaimed their intent to rebuild, retool and revitalize the party in an effort to win statewide....

COULD A CELEBRITY CANDIDATE ROIL NEWSOM RECALL?

Efforts to recall California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom are subject to the winds of time and time is on Newsom's side. The deadline...

IS HERSCHEL WALKER THE NEXT GOP SENATOR FROM GEORGIA?

By exiting the Republican primary for the seat of Sen. Raphael Warnock, D-Ga., former Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., has sparked fresh discussion...

RON JOHNSON THE NEW MODEL FOR SWING STATE GOP SENATORS

Senators from battleground states used to be mostly moderates. Johnson has gone sharply the other way, making wild claims about the...

HOW TO CURB PUBLIC UNIONS' OUT-OF-CONTROL POWER

Public employee unions are politically impregnable, but their corrosion of democratic governance may leave them open to constitutional...

HOW TO KNOW WHEN THE PANDEMIC IS OVER

At some point-maybe even soon-the emergency phase of the pandemic will end. But what, exactly, is that magic threshold?

CAPITOL OFFICER WHO KILLED ASHLI BABBITT IN HIDING FOR OWN SAFETY

All told, seven people died in connection with the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6. But only Ashli Babbitt's death was directly caused...

SHOCKING FAILURES ON DAY RIOTERS STORMED THE CAPITOL

Tuesday's testimony about the US Capitol riots was disturbing and enlightening, says Jill Filipovic. While no huge new revelations...

DEMOCRATS' CYNICAL 'JAN. 6' POLITICS

If you still think Democrats still think ex-President Donald Trump's speech incited the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, you aren't paying attention....

CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS IS HAPPENING IN AMERICA?

We used to dream big. Now we're increasingly thinking short term.

ECONOMIC CIVIL WAR

Inside the bitter battle over America's new geography.