State health departments across the country are taking various approaches to how they keep records on COVID-19 breakthrough cases, with 15 states deciding not to publish any data on the rare incidents.

There won’t be a second chance to take back hijacked American schools.

Often President Biden’s policies seem incoherent or contradictory, but nowhere are the consequences clearer than immigration.

It was always going to be Herculean to inoculate, with an untried vaccine, a multi-ethnic nation of 330 million, across a vast continent—in an era when the media routinely warps the daily news.

Amid clamoring for yet another extension, we shall see whether this episode validates the axiom that there is nothing as permanent as a temporary government program. Source: Opinion | The eviction moratorium exacerbates America’s institutional disarray – The Washington Post

Just as penalties are more severe for more serious offenses, once enforcement is removed the dynamic reverses: greater lawbreaking brings a larger return.

CNN.com, which for six long years between 2015 and 2021 turned itself into a blog about Donald Trump and his many excesses, has weighed in on President Biden’s decision to take executive action that he knows full well is illegal. And boy, is it . . . a complete whitewashing of flagrant and cynical lawbreaking.

By: Jay Bhattacharya and Donald J. Boudreaux – wsj.com – August 4, 202 On March 24, 2020, New Zealand imposed one of the most onerous lockdowns in the free world, with sharp restrictions on international travel, business closures, a prohibition on going outside, and official encouragement of citizens to snitch on neighbors. In May 2020, having hit zero-Covid, New Zealand lifted lockdown...

With the possible exception of cafeteria pizza on Fridays, nothing feels, to me, more “late 20th century public school” than reading and discussing Shirley Jackson’s 1948 short story, “The Lottery.

By: David French – frenchpress.thedispatch.com – August 3, 2021 Every now and then, it’s important to make blindingly obvious, ridiculously simple arguments. Here’s mine for today. New York Democrats should impeach Andrew Cuomo. Impeachment isn’t just deserved on the merits; it would also represent an important step towards reclaiming America’s institutional integrity and partisan responsibility.  Earlier today, New York Attorney General...