SNAP, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, is one of the nation’s largest welfare programs. And, like all welfare programs, it is massive, it has grown prodigiously over the years and it is inefficient.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – May 6, 2025 Its work requirement is evaded, and states don’t share in its costs. The House Agriculture Committee is shooting to save $230 billion over 10 years, and a big account is the roughly $100 billion a year Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Despite what you read elsewhere, Republicans aren’t indifferent to...

The Trump administration has sent Harvard University a five-page list of demands, including giving the government a veto over all hiring and admissions, and threatening to revoke Harvard’s ta…

A rigorous new U.S. study comes to the same conclusion as many other countries: The medical case for pediatric transitions is alarmingly weak.

I’m a cynical person, always have been (though I’ve gotten a little less so since having kids), which is why I’m a natural skeptic of anything any politician says to me. Trust, but verify,…

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is pushing for the CDC to stop recommending communities fluoridate their public water systems, despite the American Dental Association strongly supporting fluoridation, and i…

Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s speech in New Hampshire last week was greeted by the media as yet another stirring call to arms for the rudderless Democratic Party. “Never before in my life have I called for mass protests, for mobilization, for disruption – but I am now,” Pritzker thundered.…

By: The Editorial Boarad – wsj.com – May 7, 2025 An HHS report rebuts the false ‘consensus’ on treating minors. The 409-page study from the Department of Health and Human Services reviews the evidence about gender dysphoria among children and the various treatment options. It amounts to a rebuke of the political and medical conformity that has developed around gender...

The decade-old age of fables like Russian collusion, laptop disinformation, or the pangolin/bat cause of COVID is not over; it is just hitting midstream. For much of April, amid stock downturns…

There’s a knock at your door. It’s 5:30 AM. Your child’s still asleep. Your spouse is in the kitchen starting coffee. And without warning, that door is kicked in. A man you’ve never met forces his way into your home, snatches your child, and disappears into the early morning dark.