Colin Powell once observed, “Trust is everything in leadership.” The same can be said for public education. Parents have to trust schools to teach what really matters, or they back off, go private, or self-educate. Parents know their kids get one childhood. From Maine to America, trust in schools must be restored. Why and how? Nationally,…

Posted on Tuesday, January 7, 2025 | by AMAC, Robert B. Charles | 25 Comments | Print Sometimes canoeing flat water, you hear rapids on the wind, maybe far off, maybe not so far off. A wise navigator plans. As Republicans squeaked Speaker Johnson out last week, we heard rapids.…

Justin Trudeau’s reign as leader of the Canadian Liberal Party ended Monday morning when the embattled Prime Minister yielded with ill grace to the inevitable. His party, which polls showed falling as low as 16 percent, faces electoral Armageddon in the election, which was sure to follow the return of Parliament from its winter break.…

Posted on Tuesday, January 7, 2025 | by Aaron Flanigan | 15 Comments | Print As the Biden administration draws to a close, it has become strikingly clear that no two presidential administrations in American history have been quite as smug, pompous, and self-congratulatory as the Obama and Biden presidencies.…

Posted on Tuesday, January 7, 2025 | by Outside Contributor | 0 Comments | Print Shortly before Milton Friedman’s death in 2006, I had the privilege of interviewing him over dinner in San Francisco. The last question I asked him was: What are the three things we have to do…

Posted on Monday, January 6, 2025 | by Outside Contributor | 0 Comments | Print Congress just passed a law that will give me (and millions of people like me) extra Social Security benefits that we simply do not deserve and haven’t earned. To understand what is happening, here is…

A few issues have galvanized the political left in recent years, such as climate change alarmism. But after a string of electoral defeats, the left’s “climatism” movement now appears to be more demoralized and politically weak than ever before. For much of the 2010s and early 2020s, progressives poured untold amounts of money, energy, and…

Posted on Monday, January 6, 2025 | by Russell Gloor, AMAC Certified Social Security Advisor | 0 Comments | Print The 11th-hour Congressional approval of The Social Security Fairness Act—House Bill HR 82—has generated a burst of attention across the media, with dueling positions either supporting the decision or speaking…

In The Washington Post’s self-righteous telling, “Democracy Dies in Darkness.” It says so every day, right there below the paper’s masthead. But democracy also dies in historical revisionism, of the sort found Dec. 29 in the Post’s front-page lead story, directly below the masthead and across five columns, titled plaintively: “Joe Biden’s lonely battle to sell…

Posted on Monday, January 6, 2025 | by AMAC, Robert B. Charles | 4 Comments | Print America’s young people are in trouble. The data is piling up. Kids are not being taught critical skills, how to think, work, dare, and thrive. They are unduly anxious—in historical context—but this can…