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Conservative leaders are coming together to push back against what they call renewed momentum on the left to force right-leaning organizations to disclose their donors. The Conservative Action Project, a coalition of leaders from groups such as Heritage Action for America, Tea Party Patriots, and Club for Growth, released a memo urging fellow movement leaders to tell…

OLYMPIA, Wash.—Pressure is mounting at the state capitol for lawmakers to undo a divisive new rule that allows transgender individuals to use bathrooms, locker rooms, and other gender-segregated facilities of the sex the individuals identify as being. “People don’t understand the magnitude of the rules that they’re making,” Jill Wade, a mother of two from…

Many members of the House Freedom Caucus want to declare war—no, not on their party leadership, but against Islamic State terrorists. While Republicans in Congress have long ridiculed President Barack Obama’s military campaign against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL, lawmakers have so far refused to authorize the use of force against the…

Tom Rochon, president of Ithaca College, announced Thursday he will be stepping down next year following campus-wide protests and calls for his resignation from both faculty and students related to his handling of race-related incidents. In a letter sent to the school’s faculty, students, and supporters Wednesday, Rochon said he made the decision to retire…

Professors in higher education have become notably more liberal during the past 25 years, according to a recent study, and academics predict that the trend isn’t likely to slow any time soon. During the past quarter-century, academia has seen a nearly 20-percent jump in the number of professors who identify as liberal. That increase has created…

One member of the House Freedom Caucus called President Barack Obama’s America a “reverse world.” Other members used dark, dramatic descriptors like “dangerous,” “feckless,” “anxiety,” and “the worst” to define the Obama era. And they said the president was “delusional” to use his final State of the Union address to tell the story of a nation on…