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As a new year dawns, it’s customary to reflect on the past and set resolutions for the future. This year, let’s resolve to greet three widespread claims with healthy doses of skepticism.

Wall Street Journal reporter Molly Ball recently published a story explaining how pro-abortion rights Democrats have “changed their message.” They are reaching into the conservative playbook and commandeering terms that have long been associated with the center-right movement.

Biden and Trump really are the candidates we’ve wanted all along.  

Aggrieved atheists, annoyed agnostics and others troubled by a Nativity display, Hanukkah menorah or a poster celebrating Eid al-Fitr at a U.S. military base, might now have a harder time succeeding.

The first of the more than 150 names of people allegedly associated with the late sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein were released by a court on Wednesday.

Politicians are often takers. They take our money (and freedom) in the name of achieving goals they rarely achieve. Elon Musk and Sen. Elizabeth Warren may be the best examples of maker and taker.

By: Christopher F. Rufo – wsj.com – January 3, 2024 The left has spent decades consolidating power across the institutions of American academic life. The crowning achievement of that effort was the diversity, equity and inclusion bureaucracy—constructed to perpetuate progressive dominance of higher education by keeping conservatives out of the professoriate. Claudine Gay was in some respects the apotheosis of…

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – January 3, 2024 Let’s not lose sight of the significance of this outcome. I have heard it lamented in recent days that, despite the scale and consequence of the evidence that was presented against her, the removal of Claudine Gay from the presidency of Harvard University still took “far too long.” This,…

A glance across the globe reveals that censorship is often the tool of choice for governments facing problems.

A triumvirate of government, corporate, and academic institutions are involved in efforts to control free speech by cutting off the funding for its exercise. NRA v. Vullo deals with efforts by government agencies to target the advertisers of conservative websites to kill funding for opposing views.  

By: Dan McLaughlin – nationalreview.com – January 2, 2023 Joe Biden’s approval ratings on the economy have been dreadful for quite some time now and show no sign of improving. Last month, the Wall Street Journal found that “only 23% of voters say Biden’s policies have helped them personally, while 53% say they have been hurt by the president’s agenda. By contrast, about half of voters…