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The coddling of Brazil’s increasingly dictatorial president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, by the Biden administration and its allies in Congress has gone from baffling to damaging to U.S. national interests. Lula is an enemy of the United States, one itching to increase China’s presence in the hemisphere. What gives? “They see Bolsonaro as [Donald]…
Two weeks ago, my wife, Susan, underwent major surgery for breast cancer. Happily, the cancer was caught so early (via routine mammogram) that it was barely a Stage 1 cancer. The surgeon was confident that the cancer was completely eradicated. My wife had both the oncological surgery and the breast reconstruction at the same time…
Traditionally, teachers unions have kept a laserlike focus on improving members’ pay, benefits, and working conditions. Now, though, teachers unions are diverting their energies from fighting for the well-being of teachers to fighting over a host of unrelated issues. Teachers unions now have foreign policies. For example, the Massachusetts Teachers Association, the state affiliate of…
Several states are making progress empowering their citizens with access to education freedom and opportunity. Earlier this month, Alabama became the 15th state in the nation to enact a program providing education savings accounts and the 10th state to enact universal education choice. Last week, South Carolina and Louisiana took steps to become the 11th…
Abortion is a very controversial topic, but drug safety isn’t. Keeping America’s drug supply safe is a nonpartisan endeavor. Whatever one’s political leanings, everybody wants safe, effective drugs, and a full disclosure of known safety risks. Because of that, the Food and Drug Administration is supposed to remain agnostic when it comes to politics, up…
As Haitian gangs push a skeletal government to the breaking point, potentially sparking the flight of millions of Haitians to the United States, the Biden administration is scrambling to respond. After consistently failing to address the yearslong crisis that was clearly in motion, Democrats’ slapdash effort to “do something” in Haiti is now gaining steam in…
The Islamic extremist group ISIS took responsibility for a terrorist attack in Russia on Friday that left nearly 140 people dead. The deadly incident is one the United States should take “extremely seriously,” according to national security expert Robert Greenway. The deadly attack confirms that “the level of threat to the United States from terrorist…
In a recent issue of Foreign Policy magazine, Laura Thornton, the senior vice president for democracy at the U.S. taxpayer-funded German Marshall Fund, published a sweeping polemic attacking The Heritage Foundation, its Project 2025, and democracy itself. Project 2025 (which I have contributed to) brought together over a hundred conservative organizations to make policy suggestions…
Why do some women choose to have large families? As the American birth rate declines, academic Catherine Ruth Pakaluk decided to look at the 5% of American women who are outliers, and who have five or more children. With a colleague, she interviewed 55 of those women, and shares their reasons and experiences in her…
For the first two years of Joe Biden’s presidency, the partisan Democrats of our “legacy media” treated the “Pelosi-Picked Panel” on Jan. 6 as a dominant story, worthy of hundreds of hours of television, both live coverage of the hearings and breathless cycles of previews and reviews. Once Republicans took over the House, would…
Some 8 million to 10 million illegal aliens from all over the world, as expected, have flooded across the border since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021. A demagogic candidate Biden, remember, in 2019 invited those massing at the southern border to “surge” into the United States without specifying that they first needed…
At Planet Fitness, you can exercise everything but your right to privacy. That’s the message customers are taking to heart after an Alaskan woman had her membership revoked for complaining about a man in the women’s locker room. The gym is a “no judgment zone,” Patricia Silva was told. Well, it’s about to become a profit-free zone,…
Federal judges have ruled against the Biden administration in several recent high-profile cases, and those on the Left are not happy about it. Instead of defending their policies on the merits in front of these judges, those on the Left have instead pressured the principal policy-making body for the federal judiciary to change how cases…
The threat of terrorism first touched Arlene Foster’s life when she was just a child. Her father was serving as a police officer in the United Kingdom when he was shot in his own home by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in 1979. The Provisional Irish Republican Army group was seeking to end British rule…
Not since Prohibition has the federal government sought to ban a product as popular as the internal combustion engine. This week, the Environmental Protection Agency released its final emissions standards rule, requiring that 70% of new vehicle sales be pure battery-powered electric or hybrids by 2032. Prohibition was a disaster and ended 13 years after…
There’s an old saying attributed to Abraham Lincoln: “You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time. But you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.” Three years into his presidency, Joe Biden has run into the last sentence of that…
If you think the Treasury Department borrowing trillions of dollars is a problem only for future generations, think again. The interest rates on your credit cards, student loans—and even your mortgage—are all up now because of the Treasury’s borrowing spree, and it’s costing you thousands. The runaway spending in Washington has been a problem for…
Four years ago, government officials told us, “Stay home!” We have “15 days to slow the spread.” Days turned into months and then years, while officials chipped away at our freedoms. I have long been wary of politicians but even I was surprised at how authoritarian many were eager to be. Some demanded police to…
When veteran pollster Scott Rasmussen surveyed a group of Americans he calls the elite 1% earlier this year, he discovered a startling number who say it’s OK to win an election by cheating. The elite 1%—individuals who make over $150,000 a year, live in densely populated areas, and have postgraduate degrees—are overwhelmingly liberal. They give…
The Democrat-controlled Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday held a hearing on in vitro fertilization and the future of reproductive rights. One witness, a female doctor from Texas, went so far as to say that she supported abortion with no restrictions. On the other hand, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., highlighted the need to have strong regulations…