No matter how successfully Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) identify the waste in federal spending, their achievements will not be secure without a closer look at how Washington became so profligate in the first place. True success requires looking beyond the obvious causes—self-interested lobbying by public unions and the reluctance of […]
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In 2007, Minnesota’s Saint Agnes School, located in central St. Paul, was on the verge of default. With rapidly declining enrollment, an institution which for more than a century had been considered a cornerstone of Catholic primary and secondary education, was now struggling just to keep its doors open. But today, the school is once again
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Until recently, the biggest challenge facing education reformers was persuading local politicians in states with powerful teacher unions to legalize what has come to be known as “school choice” — the public subsidy of multiple K-12th grade learning options. For while Americans have always had the legal right to educate their children outside the local
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The left-wing bias of the mainstream media may have been more evident in the recent election than ever before, but its existence has long been recognized, even admitted by the media’s own journalists. As far back as December of 2013, the New York Times’ Peter Baker and Mark Leibovich, NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell, and CNN’s Jake Tapper
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It is hardly news that homeschooling has taken off around the country, especially since Covid. Over the last year alone, according to the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey, the number of US homeschooled students has gone from 3.6 million to 4 million—an 11 percent increase. Less well-known is the role America’s churches have played in not
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By almost every historical indicator, the US is clearly approaching a debt crisis. The federal government’s aggregate liabilities now exceed its gross domestic product. The annual interest required to service federal obligations is greater than what Congress spends each year on defense. And projected annual deficits for the next decade are well ahead of estimated
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It was Winston Churchill who once said, “You can always count on America to do the right thing, after it has exhausted all other options.” I don’t know about all the other options, but when it comes to progressive ideology and its various manifestations — net zero environmentalism, Critical Race Theory, anticolonialism, DEI hiring programs — the
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One of the more disturbing outcomes of the late 2023 congressional investigation into the prevalence of antisemitism on America’s college and university campuses was the discovery of widespread plagiarism. No sooner was it clear that Harvard president Claudine Gay may have committed publishing piracy nearly 50 times over the course of her career when stories began breaking
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Ever since June of 2022, when Arizona became the first state to legalize universal school choice, the adoption of this K–12th grade education reform has accelerated well beyond even its boosters’ wildest dreams. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Utah, and West Virginia have all enacted policies which fund families to educate
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Because teachers’ unions play such an important role in today’s Democratic Party, it is widely assumed that school choice — the policy of letting families use taxpayer dollars to educate their children as they wish — is a Republican or conservative program. And while it’s true that teachers’ unions will instantly turn on any Democrat
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