By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – May 10, 2024 The average annual inflation rate during his Presidency is 5.5%.Under Trump it was 1.9%. If our friends on the left want to stop berating voters and admit reality, they might look at the chart nearby from Dan Clifton of Strategas Research Partners. It compares the average annual consumer-price inflation rate...

By: Ben Sasse – wsj.com – May 3, 2024 Higher education isn’t daycare. Here are the rules we follow on free speech and public protests. Parents are rightly furious at the asinine entitlement of these activists and the embarrassing timidity of many college administrators. One parent put it bluntly: “Why the hell should anybody spend their money to send their...

By: Stanley Kurtz – nationalreview.com – May 7, 2024 Students stage a walk out from Hillsborough High School to protest after Florida education officials voted to ban classroom instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation in all public school grades, in Tampa, Fla., April 21, 2023 When public schools abandon political restraint and impose ideological partisanship on students, it results...

We come from two sides of the political spectrum, write Christopher F. Rufo and Jenin Younes. But both of us agree that the Antisemitism Awareness Act is profoundly misguided.

By: Jess Bravin and Melissa Korn – wsj.com – May 8, 2024 More than a dozen Trump appointees have signed a letter critical of the school’s response to student protests and academic-integrity issues. In a letter this week to Columbia University President Minouche Shafik, 13 jurists led by U.S. Circuit Judges James Ho and Elizabeth Branch said the New York...

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Differences among states reflect diverse priorities and policy initiatives. Let’s respect these differences and protect fundamental rights.  

By: Daniel J. Pilla – nationalreview.com – April 23, 2024 The Court is set to issue a ruling in June that could redefine taxable income, potentially opening the door to a whole range of new taxes. The “base” of our federal tax system is “income.” And that base functions by capturing the amount of “income” an individual or business earns over...

By: John Fund – nationalreview.com – April 28, 2024 Come Inauguration Day 2025, they might regret it. Progressives have generally done a good job of keeping their radical agenda for the courts quiet before the November election. But several of them broke cover this past weekend during an MSNBC panel discussion on the Supreme Court’s oral argument during the presidential-immunity case involving Donald Trump. Alicia...

The State Freedom Caucus Network aims to push the Republican Party in state capitols further to the right. But some GOP lawmakers say Freedom Caucus members are more interested in publicity and grandstanding than policymaking.