Charitable Deductions
Kerby Anderson During the debate on tax reform, some listeners expressed their concern that the charitable deduction would be eliminated. Even after the bill was passed, one listener lamented that cha...
School Graduation Fraud
Kerby Anderson When it was announced that all of the 2017 senior class in a Washington, DC high school graduated with college acceptance letters, various news outlets called it a miracle. Teachers, st...
Fake News Study
Kerby Anderson A new study by three political scientists concluded that concerns about the impact of fake news are overblown. You may have heard that fake news elected Donald Trump. Supposedly Trump v...
History of Fake News
Kerby Anderson With all this talk about fake news, you might think this is a recent phenomenon. Jarrett Stepman provides a history of fake news in the US and the attempts government and other entities...
Tumult in Tehran
Kerby Anderson As last year was ending and this year was beginning, we have seen tumult in Tehran. While Iranians have been protesting in the streets, there is another important story that is being mi...
Teen Sex Declining
Penna Dexter A survey recently released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reveals that, over the past decade, the number of high-school-age teens who are engaging in sex has dropped...
Extra Cash
Kerby Anderson The media elite and political elite in this country are disconnected in many ways from the average American citizen. One illustration of this occurred as the final vote was taken in Dec...
Tax Cut Heist
Kerby Anderson One of the ways politicians get some attention in our current media climate is to make outlandish claims or use controversial phrases. So when various Democratic leaders referred to the...
Post-Christian Nation
Kerby Anderson David French says in a recent column that one of the most under-appreciated and under-reported stories of last year was “that a post-Christian America is a more vicious America” that ha...
Rolling Back Regulations
Kerby Anderson Many presidential candidates campaign on the promise to roll back regulations that stifle innovation and stymie business growth. Once those candidates get into office, very little regul...
Gaming Disorder
Kerby Anderson The World Health Organization has just added an unusual disorder to its list of mental health conditions. People who play an excessive amount of video games could be diagnosed with a “g...
Trump Tweets
Penna Dexter Wall Street Journal columnist Daniel Henninger says there are two Trump presidencies that "exist in parallel universes." One presidency, he writes, is "inhabited by Trump of Twitter." He...
