Sally C. Pipes, When it comes to healthcare, Bernie Sanders is all alone. The Vermont senator is one of just two presidential candidates who support Medicare for All. The other, Senator Elizabeth Warren, has fallen in the polls and never fully embraced Sanders’ radical proposal to begin with. The rest of the Democratic field — […]
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Mass Transit Is Making Gridlock Worse
Stephen Moore, Why in the world is the federal government, 20 years into the 21st century, continuing to pour tens of billions of tax dollars into little-used mass transit rail projects? In a digital age with increasingly popular and affordable door-to-door ride-sharing apps such as Uber and Lyft, universal use of cars by all income […]
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World ‘in uncharted territory’ as coronavirus spreads: WHO
Coronavirus is now spreading much more rapidly outside China than within the country, leading the world into uncharted territory, but the outbreak can still be contained, the World Health Organization said on Monday. Almost nine times as many cases had been reported in the past 24 hours beyond China than inside, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom […]
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Putting the Culture Wars In a Multigenerational Perspective
Michael Brown, It’s the question I’ve heard now for many years, specifically from evangelical Christians. “Since the world is only getting worse, why bother fighting the culture wars? What’s the use? What’s the point? Isn’t it better for us simply to share our faith and prepare for the return of Jesus?” To be sure, if […]
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DOJ Accuses Harvard Of Racism, Files Scathing Brief
Marina Medvin, Harvard, the crème de la crème of Ivy League education, has been proudly engaging in racial discrimination — in 2020. Harvard has a sordid history of employing and supporting racists and engaging in antisemitic limitations on the admission of Jews. But this article isn’t about the past; it is about present-day discrimination of a different group of […]
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Illinois Task Force Recommends Eliminating Prom Kings, Queens
Todd Starnes, Prom kings and queens in Illinois could be dethroned if the “Affirming and Inclusive Schools Task Force” has its way. The report, “Strengthening Inclusion in Illinois Schools,” recommends districts “amend their school board policies to strengthen protections for transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming students.” I predicted in my new book, “Culture Jihad: How to Stop the […]
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Bernie Sanders Touts Endorsement From Supporters of Murdering Jewish Children
Daniel Greenfield, Imagine if President Trump touted the endorsement of a group that supported the Nazis or the KKK. But this sort of thing gets a pass. Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign website touts an endorsement from the radical group, Dream Defenders, and the group’s co-director, Phillip Agnew, is a top Sanders surrogate. The group’s political arm, Dream Defenders PAC, has […]
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Obama Holdover in an Obscure Government Arm Helped Cause the Country’s Coronavirus Crisis
Daniel Greenfield, Who really decided to bring infected people to the United States? Two months after the outbreak of the coronavirus, #TrumpVirus began trending on Twitter. Why? Because it’s the only chance that the Democrats have of winning back the White House in 2020. Saddled with broken primaries whose nominee, after a possible brokered convention, […]
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Media faces challenges in covering coronavirus outbreak
Covering the coronavirus story requires careful navigation and constant attention. News organizations trying to responsibly report on the growing health crisis are confronted with the task of conveying its seriousness without provoking panic, keeping up with a torrent of information while much remains a mystery and continually advising readers and viewers how to stay safe. “It’s a […]
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Supreme Court will decide the fate of Obama health care law
The Supreme Court agreed on Monday to decide a lawsuit that threatens the Obama-era health care law, a case that will keep health care squarely in front of voters even though a decision won’t come until after the 2020 election. The court said it would hear an appeal by 20 mainly Democratic states of a […]