By: John R. Lott Jr. – wsj.com – April 24, 2024 Americans think crime is on the rise, but the media keep telling them they’re wrong. A Gallup survey last year found that 92% of Republicans and 58% of Democrats thought crime was increasing. A February Rasmussen Reports survey found that 61% of likely voters say violent crime in the...

By: Brad Raffensperger – wsj.com – April 30, 2024 I believe American citizens should decide American elections. A majority of voters on both sides of the aisle agree. Unfortunately, a small cohort of liberal activists is intent on making noncitizen voting a reality. Progressives have pushed for such measures in California, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Vermont and New York....

By: Ryan Mills – nationalreview.com – April 30, 2024 In one neighborhood, a homeless man on a skateboard chased people with a chainsaw. Others threatened residents with guns and attacked them with knives, garden shears, and broken wine bottles. For one resident, the terror from the “unhoused” was so bad that she was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and had...

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – April 30, 2024 For readers of a certain age, today’s protests at Columbia and other campuses echo 1968 and opposition to the Vietnam war. The kids even took over the same building at Columbia, Hamilton Hall. But the mass-protest method has become the political default for progressives when they lose the policy debate...

‘Family Unfriendly’ documents all the ways our laws and culture are discouraging family formation — but the problem may be much deeper.

Elon Musk shared these comments from Kevin Dolan from the 2023 Natal Conference about the predicted global population bottleneck if birth rates continue dropping.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – April 26, 2024 New rules are designed to eliminate fossil-fuel power plants. Energy scarcity is sure to result. The Biden Administration’s regulations are coming so fast and furious that it’s hard even to keep track, but we’re trying. On Thursday the Environmental Protection Agency proposed its latest doozy—rules that will effectively force coal...

Bill Maher again took a blowtorch to the modern social justice warrior, adding that most of the time, it’s a gross exercise in narcissism.

The total fertility rate dropped to 1.62 births per woman last year, well below replacement level.

A black ex-employee allegedly used artificial intelligence to frame the white principal of a Baltimore-area high school as a racist and an antisemite, resulting in relentless threats, harassment, and the principal temporarily being removed from the school.