Donald Trump’s election to the presidency was formally certified on Monday, but he still faces “Trump-proofing” efforts in Washington and in the states—and in some cases, from familiar foes.  Democrat governors and attorneys general in California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and New York declared their intentions to challenge Trump’s efforts on multiple fronts, from enforcing…

The American public is being sold a bill of goods that enrolling everyone in government-approved health insurance — primarily managed care — will improve the nation’s health and close the troubling disparities between the health of Black and white Americans. Former President Barack Obama made insurance coverage the signature issue of the Democratic Party. Now…

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg appears to be undergoing a political awakening, which may pose an existential threat to the left-wing censorship regime. In a five-minute video posted online this week, Zuckerberg announced sweeping changes to so-called “content moderation” policies across the suite of apps owned by Facebook’s parent company Meta, including photo-sharing giant Instagram. In…

Posted on Wednesday, January 8, 2025 | by Ben Solis | 0 Comments | Print While President Donald Trump’s historic political comeback was undoubtedly the most dramatic and high-profile victory anywhere in the world for conservatives in 2024, it was hardly the only one. In 2025, the global right could…

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…