Several states, including Georgia, Texas, and Arizona are reforming their election and voter integrity laws. However, the Republican-led efforts did not escape the notice of the mainstream media, “woke” corporations such as Coca-Cola, or higher education organizations. Forty-nine higher education organizations issued a statement condemning these laws, some of which have not yet been passed […]
Read the articleAnother day, another teachers’ union upset at school re-opening-related plans. Teachers in Texas condemned Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, for lifting the state’s mask mandate and re-opening the state’s entire economy. The mask mandate was in force for eight months, and it was only one part of the coronavirus pandemic restrictions that he signed […]
Read the articleRichard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. Just before the fall semester kicked off for the class of 2020, John Ellison, Dean of Students at the University of Chicago, sent […]
Read the articleAs President Biden settles into Washington, there has been more and more pressure to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Although this may seem like a positive step for people who live below the poverty line, it would actually be very detrimental and lead to irreversible damage to the United States economy. The […]
Read the articleIn October 2017, 4chan user, “Q Clearance Patriot,” claiming to have insider knowledge of the Trump administration and other high-profile politicians, made his first post on the shady internet forum. Titled “The Calm Before the Storm,” the purported government operative outlined the plans of the new Trump administration to unveil and arrest a secret cabal […]
Read the articleCancel culture is coming for conservatives far and wide, and the controversy in Michigan is no different. Left-wing and anti-GOP activists demanded that a regent should resign over his ties to the Republican Party and for his support of President Donald Trump. Ron Weiser, a recently-elected member of the University of Michigan’s Board of Regents, […]
Read the articleNot so long ago, everyone wanted to live in California. The temperate climate, the beaches, the Rose Parade, Hollywood —– the mystique attracted millions to the state over the years. Today, it’s a far different story. Chances are if you talk to ten residents of the Golden State, four or five of them might tell […]
Read the articleWhile the pandemic greatly disrupted campus activities in 2020, the student governments of at least three universities managed to focus their efforts to pass BDS resolutions, bills that asked their respective universities to divest from holdings of companies doing business with Israel. At the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, that school’s resolution “called on the […]
Read the articleTo the Left and academics, commonplace words can be deemed offensive. The University of Michigan’s “Words Matter Task Force” mentioned that there are at least two dozen words and phrases that could offend people in the modern era. The task force operates under the university’s Information and Technology Services department, according to a report from […]
Read the articleRichard L. Cravatts, Ph.D., a Freedom Center Journalism Fellow in Academic Free Speech and President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, is the author of Dispatches From the Campus War Against Israel and Jews. The ubiquity of race obsession on campuses in the age of Black Lives Matter and George Floyd showed itself at Princeton University, too, […]
Read the articleA Johns Hopkins University professor criticized her employer for its founder’s ties to slavery in the 19th century. The Baltimore, Md.-based university recently discovered that— contrary to previous claims that its namesake was a Union, anti-slavery sympathizer— that he owned slaves. History professor Martha Jones, who also works as the director of the Hard Histories […]
Read the articleFox News host Martha MacCallum and American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten had a contentious discussion about New York City’s public schools closure this past week. MacCallum hosts Fox News’s “The Story” show and invited Weingarten on her show. At issue was the announcement from New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to close […]
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