“I think that we need an expanded playbook in a way that we invite all ideas that we have basically look that we say look this is a moment where there are no bad ideas. A no bad idea brainstorm is what I’d like to call it. And in that no bad ideas brainstorm, we talk about what we need to do and think about doing around the Electoral College. …”
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Perhaps the most important way to improve students’ educational experience is to elevate the teaching profession. However, where teachers’ unions hold sway, that task is extremely difficult.
The heart of the problem is that collective bargaining agreements, in effect throughout most of the country, ensure that teachers’ unions treat teachers not as professionals but as interchangeable widgets, all of equal value and competence. Differentiating between effective and ineffective educators based on what their students actually learn would require eliminating the union’s industrial-style work rules. These include one-size-fits-all salary scales, tenure (contractually known as “permanence”), and seniority, or “last in, first out (LIFO),” under which, if a teacher must be laid off due to budgetary belt-tightening, the newest hire is on the chopping block rather than the least talented teacher.
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One American view of China—now increasingly popular on the Left and the Right alike, especially among the hate-Trump crowd—is that the communist colossus will be forever ascendant, with continued astonishing levels of food production, ship construction, and industrial output. In this pessimistic view, China will soon replace America as the world’s predominant power. We are, supposedly, like an exhausted British Empire circa 1945, and China is the new version of the postwar American powerhouse.
Yet even Beijing’s miraculous 30-year leap out of poverty into first-world affluence and Westernized power is hardly the same as parity with the US. In truth, Trump held almost all the cards at the current summit and will do so again when Xi Jinping visits the US this autumn. According to nearly every historical measure of power, the US leads China by sizable margins—in wealth, economic output, fuel, food, and military strength.
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Ever since the recent decision of the Supreme Court limiting the use of race in drawing congressional districts, there has been a steady drumbeat of criticism claiming that the ruling somehow took away the rights of blacks and other minorities.
But nothing could be further from the truth.
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The Chinese government is tightening the screws on American investment in its artificial intelligence sector. The core purpose is to keep U.S. capital out of technologies it deems “strategically sensitive” to national security. The protective action is a reminder that Washington also needs to prioritize insulating our own critical sectors from foreign adversaries.
Few industries are more important to our national security than healthcare. More than 131 million people—nearly two-thirds of all U.S. adults—use prescription medications. Yet the United States has allowed its pharmaceutical supply chains to become dangerously dependent on foreign rivals—particularly China.
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Tennessee has sent a message that local officials across the country would be wise to hear. When city leaders put partisan politics ahead of the people they serve, state officials have every legal right – and increasingly, the political will – to step in and set things right.
Last month, the General Assembly passed legislation giving state leaders greater, and frankly fairer, control over Tennessee’s airports. Going forward, the governor, lieutenant governor, and speaker of the state House will appoint six of the nine members on each major airport authority board. Local officials will still appoint three.
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Many of our conservative friends are extremely concerned that President Trump’s visit to Red China, and his effusive praise of Communist Dictator Xi Jinping, signals a weakening of our security posture towards the Communist Chinese behemoth.
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Attempts to restructure government at the federal level are mostly on the Democrat agenda. Pack the US Supreme Court. Elect presidents via popular vote. Turn Puerto Rico and Washington, DC, into states with two senators each. Implement national mail-in voting, automatic voter registration, legalize ballot harvesting, lower the voting age to 16, let felons vote, let noncitizens vote. And, of course, end the Senate filibuster. If they could, Democrats would do all of this.
Meanwhile, however, there is a growing bipartisan movement to implement term limits for members of the House and Senate. A bill has been introduced in the 119th Congress, and President Trump has supported term limits consistently since he first ran for president in 2016. But federal term limits would do more harm than good. Explaining why offers insights into how an entrenched bureaucracy gains power in democracies, and California is a prime example.
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America’s fertility rate has hit a new record low of 1.57 in 2025, well below replacement rate. It’s been on this steep downward trajectory since 2007.
The MAHA movement has recently brought much-needed attention to America’s fertility crisis, with Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy calling it a “national security threat.” MAHA is proactively addressing the root health causes of the rising infertility crisis in our country, like reducing environmental toxins and chemical exposure and improving diet and nutrition by reducing consumption of ultra-processed foods, to improve natural fertility.
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In recent years, a quietly radical idea has gained traction in certain environmental circles: stop having children. Some members of Extinction Rebellion in the UK have embraced an anti-natalist position, arguing that a shrinking human population is one of the most powerful levers available for reducing environmental damage. If fewer people exist, the thinking goes, then less energy gets consumed, fewer habitats get destroyed, and the planet gets a much-needed chance to breathe. It is an emotionally compelling argument. But is it actually true? The evidence suggests not. A growing body of research indicates that population decline, by itself, is a surprisingly weak instrument for environmental repair. The relationship between fewer people and a healthier planet is messier and far less automatic than anti-natalists tend to assume.
Perhaps the most fundamental problem with the anti-natalist climate argument is one of timing. Climate change is seen as an urgent crisis demanding decisive action over the next few decades. Population decline, by contrast, operates on a generational timescale, and the two simply do not align in the way that environmental campaigners often hope. To understand why, researchers constructed a rigorous thought experiment. They compared two long-run visions of humanity’s demographic future: one in which global fertility continues falling below replacement level, eventually leading to a shrinking world population, and another in which fertility rates stabilize at replacement level, sustaining a population roughly 90 percent larger by the year 2200. These are dramatically different futures in human terms. Yet when scientists ran both scenarios through a leading climate and economic model, the difference in projected global temperatures by 2200 was less than one-tenth of a degree Celsius.
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Every American should be grateful that President Trump, Vice President Vance, Cabinet officials, and the thousands of other attendees at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner were unharmed during last month’s disturbing shooting. It is clear that the shooter attempted to kill the President in yet another assassination attempt on his life since he returned to office. In a manifesto, the alleged shooter, Cole Tomas Allen, wrote that he intended to target administration officials, “prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest.”
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On April 23, the US Treasury Department announced that the IRS plans to revise Form 990—the annual information return filed by tax-exempt organizations—to improve transparency and strengthen oversight, specifically targeting reporting on government contracts, government grants, and fiscal sponsorship arrangements. The stated goals are to detect misconduct and hold wrongdoers accountable.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent put the matter bluntly: “We are ending the days of hiding fraud, abuse, and extremist activity behind complicated nonprofit arrangements. When bad actors misuse charitable structures, directors and officers should understand that transparency can lead to scrutiny, accountability, and liability under the law.”
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The political champagne corks barely stopped popping at Democrat headquarters before the Virginia Supreme Court dropped a legal bunker buster right down the middle of their gerrymandering fantasy.
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For the past century, the agendas of the Democratic Party were predictable. They professed concern for working Americans and supported blue-collar unions.
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Tennessee lawmakers spent this session advancing the priorities and values voters sent them to Nashville to fight for. From empowering parents with school choice to cracking down on illegal immigration, expanding Second Amendment rights to protecting free speech on college campuses, the 114th General Assembly moved aggressively on nearly every front.
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American dominance hinges on something less flashy than most expect: the ability to actually build.
Being able to efficiently build roads, energy projects, data infrastructure, housing and more is a necessity for America. And being able to continue doing so requires getting permitting reform across the finish line.
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One of the beneficiaries of Virginia’s aggressive attempt to gerrymander the state for Democratic advantage could be a former federal prosecutor whose campaign for Congress hinges on his efforts to use the law to target President Trump and his supporters.
When a slim majority of Virginia voters gave the legislature authority last month to create congressional districts that could give Democrats a 10-1 advantage, J.P. Cooney cheered the outcome in a message on social media, boasting that the new district he was running in had been drawn “expressly for the purpose of standing up to Donald Trump’s and MAGA’s corruption.”
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Tennessee is on the verge of a meaningful step forward for patients, families, and the future of healthcare in our state. With overwhelming bipartisan support—passing the House 94-0 and the Senate 29-1—HB 484 / SB 435 reflects a powerful shared commitment to improving patient access to modern, evidence-based care.
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The Trump administration is restoring the core value of equal opportunity to civil rights enforcement. It is eviscerating the race-baiting, intersectional policies of the Biden and Obama administrations, and giving substance to the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Ames v. Ohio Department of Youth Services (2025) that whites, men, and heterosexuals are not held to a higher standard in discrimination cases.
This is a time for rejoicing, tempered by concern that the administration will not have time to complete its work, and that its reliance on executive orders, rather than legislation and consent decrees, will allow the next Democratic president to rip asunder President Trump’s laudable accomplishments.
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In March 2020, a couple of months after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States, editors at the journal Nature Medicine appended a note to a coronavirus study it had published five years prior. “We are aware that this article is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered,” the journal editors wrote. “There is no evidence that this is true; scientists believe that an animal is the most likely source of the coronavirus.”
The prestigious journal appears to have taken this extraordinary action for two reasons. First, the study described cutting-edge gain-of-function research that mixed different viruses together to create a man-made chimera, or hybrid of both viruses – experiments some suspected were the origin of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused the pandemic. Second, the study’s authors were Shi Zengli of the Wuhan Institute of Virology – a research lab in the city that was ground zero for the pandemic – and Ralph Baric, the world’s leading expert on coronaviruses, of the University of North Carolina.
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For decades, discussions surrounding mass immigration into Western nations have largely been confined to two unproductive viewpoints. One perspective, which views culture as a superficial element and asserts the fundamental similarity of all human beings, suggests that immigrants primarily require sufficient time and opportunities to integrate. Conversely, the other attributes assimilation challenges to cultural values, patriarchal attitudes, or religious conservatism. Both approaches, however, exhibit an intellectual reluctance to delve deeper. What remains conspicuously absent from the prevailing discourse is an understanding rooted in developmental psychology and civilization theory. This framework offers significant explanatory power while avoiding genetic determinism and simplistic cultural explanations, yet it still presents genuinely uncomfortable truths.
A central insight, systematically elaborated by sociologist Georg W. Oesterdiekhoff, who leans upon Norbert Elias’s civilization theory and Jean Piaget’s developmental psychology, posits that human societies evolve through distinct stages of psychological and institutional development. Piaget identified the formal operational stage as the pinnacle of cognitive development, typically emerging in adolescence, in which individuals become capable of abstract reasoning, hypothetical thinking, and evaluating situations according to universal principles rather than immediate, concrete experience. Oesterdiekhoff’s provocative claim is that premodern peoples, as a general rule, did not reach this stage—remaining, in cognitive terms, at earlier levels of development characterized by magical thinking, egocentrism, and an inability to reason systematically beyond the tangible and the familiar. This assertion has nothing to do with race or immutable biological traits.
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Last week, UCLA law students shouted profanities, held signs with graphic obscenities, and booed a Department of Homeland Security attorney invited to campus to speak by the law school’s Federalist Society chapter.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently announced that “it is regulatory malpractice that we don’t have early [Alzheimer’s] screening already,” saying “we now know that early treatment of Alzheimer’s can postpone its onset.”
Kennedy echoes a sentiment that millions of Americans already feel: the healthcare system should be more concerned with prevention and early intervention than late-stage crisis care. His statement should serve as a wake-up call for doctors, policymakers and anyone concerned for the country’s long-term fiscal health.
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I hope you’ll forgive me this unorthodoxy, but I’m going to start today with a couple of long quotations from another author, Nathan J. Robinson. The first quote is about the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and the second is specifically about the SPLC’s much-ballyhooed “Hate Map.” I swear, there’s a point to all of this.
The Southern Poverty Law Center perfectly shows social change done wrong. It was a top-down organization controlled by an incompetent and venal leadership. It was hypocritical in the extreme, preaching anti-racism while fostering a racist internal culture and being led by men whose own commitment to equality was questionable. It didn’t care about listening to and incorporating the viewpoints of the people it was supposed to serve. It was obscenely rich in a time of terrible poverty and squandered much of its considerable wealth. Finally, it picked the wrong political targets and focused on symbolic over substantive change.
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At the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Donald Trump was the target of yet a third assassination attempt—this time in full view of the Washington press corps.
The event was presented as a spirited night with Trump. After 11 years of avoiding the predominantly left-wing media event, he decided to revisit the dinner. He anticipated that he would be the object of ridicule inside the hall—and that he might see possible violence outside it.
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The widespread availability of abortion pills in the years since the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision is one reason the total number of abortions has gone up since Roe v. Wade was overturned.
Not only have 12 statesopens in a new tab enshrined unlimited abortion into their state constitutions, but blue states are undermining lifesaving policies in pro-life states. They’re sending abortion pills to women in states that are trying to protect women, girls, and unborn children. They’re also shielding abortion pill providers from legal consequences thanks to laws that prohibit cooperating with pro-life states.
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The Trump administration and state leadership are working relentlessly to obtain private, federal and state investments and grants, as well as foreign direct investment in new enrichment technology, advanced nuclear power plants, and other innovations that are being built and deployed in partnership with the Tennessee Valley Authority and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL).
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Celebrated on May 1, May Day has traditionally honored workers and the history of labor organizing. The day traces its roots to the 1886 Haymarket Affair in Chicago, where laborers fighting for an eight-hour workday were met with deadly violence.
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There’s a growing concern about how young people are experiencing the digital world. I have spoken out about this very issue myself. I’m relieved to see parents, educators, and especially policymakers are focusing on the risks and emerging challenges posed by artificial intelligence and social media addiction. These are serious issues, and they demand thoughtful, effective solutions.
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Following the moon landing, there was widespread belief that mankind would soon be going to Mars. The conquest of space had begun. In fact, just two weeks after the Apollo 11 mission returned from the moon, rocket pioneer Wernher von Braun, whose Saturn V rocket had taken humans to the moon, presented NASA’s Space Task Group with a detailed plan for a manned mission to Mars, targeting a launch in 1981. The then-head of NASA, Thomas O. Paine, even specified an exact date: 12 astronauts were to embark on a mission to Mars on November 12, 1981.
But things turned out differently. After only five more moon landings, the program was aborted—and Mars has yet to be reached. So, what happened? In short, NASA lost its way. Government-led spaceflight did not produce progress, but stagnation. Launch costs remained almost unchanged at a high level for decades. And there were no economic incentives to reach Mars.
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It is difficult to determine whether the bizarro worldview of the current Democrat-media nexus can simply be attributed to either its generic Trump Derangement Syndrome or the attendant Wile E. Coyote/Roadrunner obsessive/compulsive disorder. But the crazy world of the Left increasingly bears scant resemblance to reality.
In this alternate universe, Eric Swalwell was a liberal icon and invaluable asset for years, though admittedly a bit randy and occasionally a serial sexual predator—a fact that the man himself made little effort to hide.
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This past weekend, the self-proclaimed leaders of the global Left gathered in Barcelona to complain about Donald Trump and to declare that they are the real and legitimate representatives of the global masses, as they pushed back against the American president, his policies, and his purported destruction of the post-World War II institutions they profess to respect and cherish. The Global Progressive Mobilization conference, which drew some 6,000 elected representatives and activists from around the world, was organized and hosted by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, who has positioned himself as Trump’s chief international critic over the last several weeks. Sanchez said that he intends to turn Barcelona into a “hub of resistance” to Trump and the global Right and told the gathering that he will “twist the arm of the people who think they are completely untouchable.”
It is not entirely clear what Sanchez can actually do to twist anyone’s arm, literally or figuratively. As the prime minister of Spain, he oversees a lower-mid-tier EU economy and commands a lower-mid-tier global military. He talks a good game and proclaims to represent the morally superior political position, but his actions belie ulterior motives. He demands an end to American and Israeli tyranny and neocolonialism, even as he openly and unashamedly embraces ideas and partners that demonstrate, at best, an indifference to genuine tyrannical and colonial behavior.
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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani intends to keep one of his most controversial campaign promises: city-owned grocery stores.
In his 100-day address on Sunday, he announced the city’s first socialist supermarket will be up and running in East Harlem in 2027. The only thing slower than Mamdani opening the store next year will be the checkout line once it finally opens—and that’s assuming the shelves aren’t empty.
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It has been nearly 80 years since the guns fell silent in World War II. In that long arc of peace, the United States helped rebuild a shattered Europe, deter Soviet expansion, and anchor what we now call the transatlantic alliance. Those were noble achievements. They mattered. They still echo in the prosperity and stability of the Western world today.
But history is not a life sentence. And gratitude, while virtuous, is not a strategy.
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Ohio businesses are getting squeezed from every direction right now. Tariff uncertainty is disrupting supply chains. Input costs are up. The labor market hasn’t fully stabilized. Many of the business owners I know are just trying to keep their people employed and their doors open. That context matters when you look at what Congress is considering doing to them next.
The Faster Labor Contracts Act (H.R. 5408) would impose a federal timeline on first-contract collective bargaining negotiations. Bargaining must start within 10 days of a union election. If there is no agreement within 90 days, a government mediator steps in. If mediation fails, a government-appointed arbitration panel takes over and writes the contract—wages, benefits, working conditions, all of it. The employer has no further say. Neither do the workers.
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Artificial intelligence has taken the wired world by storm, but the backlash came almost as fast. Progressives complain of job losses, environmentalists question the ecological impacts of huge data centers, and local activists are clamoring for assurances that household utility bills won’t skyrocket because of the centers’ voracious electricity requirements. Others simply worry that the technology will overwhelm humans’ ability to control it.
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The anti-tariff priesthood has delivered yet another paper purporting to expose the folly of Trump’s trade strategy.
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Jeb Boasberg is now the Rory McIlroy of the D.C. Circuit Court—but the Obama appointee won’t receive a green jacket or a lifetime membership at Augusta National.
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It has been more than seven years since President Donald Trump signed the Nuclear Energy Innovation and Modernization Act (NEIMA) into law – and it has taken all seven years (including four during the Biden Administration) for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to issue a final rule implementing its provisions.
Even the Washington Post admits that the new Part 53 rules, intended to reduce review times from decades to 18 months or less, will make President Trump’s goal of revitalizing the U.S. nuclear energy industry more competitive – “to everyone’s benefit,” says the Post.
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Why is the Trump-appointed head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency continuing, and even expanding, a Biden-era policy that economists warn could cause another housing crash?
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The prognosis of the Iran War is now so couched in politics and so warped by the American Left that the public has grown tired and wants it all to go away. But in truth, the situation is so fluid that any accurate prediction is impossible. Yet there is good reason to believe in an eventual outcome quite favorable to the U.S. and one far better than the status quo ante bellum.
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Here they come again.
The left-wing legal intelligentsia — the same crowd that spent four years weaponizing the Department of Justice against Donald J. Trump, his family, his associates, and anyone who dared support him — has now cooked up their latest scheme to torch the American justice system from the inside out.
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In 2024, Beijing’s largest ship maker produced 250 ships. Combined, these ships could carry the weight of the total number of ships America has produced since World War II, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. If war were to break out in the Pacific the U.S. shipbuilding industry would not be able to repair and replace losses at the rate in which Chinese shipyards could.
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America’s public-sector unions have a problem they can’t explain away: Workers are leaving.
Ask a public employee when they joined their union and most couldn’t tell you. Because they didn’t join. The dues just started coming out of their check.
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Artificial intelligence is expected to drive economic growth for decades, but one question matters most. Where are those jobs going to be created?
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The Left and some on the Right went crazy over a recent Trump tweet.
He warned that if the Iranian regime did not cease blocking the international Strait of Hormuz, he would hit its dual military-civilian infrastructure. He promised that “a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.”
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As Director of The Amistad Project, I have spent years examining how private money, political influence, and nonprofit networks intersect with election administration. That work has repeatedly brought me into direct contact with evidence that the infusion of private funds into the 2020 election was not a neutral act of civic charity but a targeted intervention designed to benefit one candidate—Mr. Biden.
Yet throughout this period, major media outlets insisted there was “no evidence” of such influence, and when the factual record became too substantial to ignore, they shifted to the equally misleading claim that there was “no proof.”
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A quiet surge is reshaping American courts in states such as Georgia and Missouri to prevent the encroach of Sharia law.
State legislators are advancing “American Laws for American Courts” (ALAC) and related measures. These laws attempt to keep the U.S. and state constitutions as the sole legal authorities. The message to Americans is clear: no foreign codes and no parallel tribunals. This effort addresses real risks in family law, contracts, child custody, arbitration, and other legal conflicts.
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After failing to win Congress and the presidency in 2024, the Democrats conducted an internal postmortem of what went wrong. While they predictably did not divulge the full results, everyone knew what they had found.
Their obsessions with the low side of 30/70 issues had especially alienated Democrats from white middle- and working-class voters. Yet middle-class whites still comprise about 40–50 percent of the population and are perhaps overrepresented in voter turnout.
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The longer the war with Iran drags on, the clearer it becomes that America’s allies have little interest in doing things that allies traditionally do. Some European leaders have merely said they will not participate in the war, that they have no interest in fighting Donald Trump’s battles. Others have taken concrete steps to hinder American efforts—notably, by denying American troops access to bases in their countries or denying them permission to fly over their airspace. Others still—namely, France’s Emmanuel Macron and Spain’s Pedro Sánchez—appear to have determined that their nation’s welfare no longer aligns with that of the United States, which is a legitimate position but hardly one that would define an “ally.”
The clearer it becomes that America’s longstanding erstwhile allies are unhappy with current arrangements, the more agitated President Trump’s domestic opponents—on the Left and the Right—grow. They are certain that Trump’s Middle East conflict is the straw that will break the back of the camel that is the post-World War II global order. He is an abomination, they insist, a simplistic fool who knows nothing about the history and grandeur of NATO, the importance of the trans-Atlantic partnership, or the bonds that tie “the West” together and make its preservation the central purpose of American foreign policy. He will destroy everything and leave the world and the nation worse off because of it.
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