With President Joe Biden’s term nearly over, federal agencies should be winding down activities for the year and preparing for enormous changes in their leadership and policy goals. However, one relatively small but powerful agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Board...
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Sat, 18 Jan 2025 03:21:19 +0000Later this year, the most important free-speech case in decades will be decided by the Supreme Court, and it’s not about speech at all. It’s about common internet smut, and it’s high time the high court dispelled the modern myth...
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Sat, 18 Jan 2025 03:21:17 +0000“By schisms rent asunder, by heresies distressed.” Those lyrics, from the third verse of Samuel John Stone’s “Church’s One Foundation,” written in 1866 to rebut heresies about biblical inspiration then ripping through the Church of England, have a timeless quality...
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Sat, 18 Jan 2025 03:21:14 +0000More than one million American K-12 students utilized private school choice last year, nearly double the number from just five years ago. This growth has been fueled by the rapid spread of school choice programs, such as education savings accounts...
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Sat, 18 Jan 2025 03:10:19 +0000It’s hard to believe, but we’re finally here. Four years after all the Sturm und Drang that followed Donald Trump’s 2020 electoral loss to Joe Biden, the maestro of Mar-a-Lago is set to be inaugurated once more on Monday as...
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Sat, 18 Jan 2025 03:10:17 +0000PACIFIC PALISADES, California — On Sunday afternoon, I ventured behind the LAPD, LAFD, and National Guard lines to visit this embattled town, including my alma mater Palisades Charter High School. Pali High, as we called it before charter schools became...
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Sat, 18 Jan 2025 03:10:14 +0000To put it bluntly, Jill Biden’s time as first lady has been a complete train wreck. Even Jill Biden is on the verge of admitting it. In a full-ranging interview with the Washington Post this week, the first lady confessed,...
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Sat, 18 Jan 2025 03:10:12 +0000A federal court held American Airlines liable for their mismanagement of employee retirement funds that focused more on Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors. Melissa Mackenzie and Scott McKay break down the federal case and its implications for the airline company in...
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Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:11:20 +0000The Washington Post is facing a scale of collapse perhaps never before seen in American journalism. In 2021, the newspaper had reached 22.5 million digital users. By mid-2024, however, that had fallen to just 3 million. Twenty million daily viewers were...
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Fri, 17 Jan 2025 17:59:41 +0000In the early 1990s, I visited Chartwell, Winston Churchill’s former home in the countryside of Kent in southeast England. Entering the house and traversing the grounds, I had a sensation of walking the footsteps of history, of imagining the great...
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