Memorial Day, 2024
Today, we honor and remember the many men and women who have laid down their lives that we might enjoy the blessings of freedom.
Commentary
Chicago Teachers Union: An Example in Corruption
If you want a textbook example of teachers union corruption, look no further than the gold standard for scandal and failure: the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU). In 2023, there were…
Legal Voice
Legal Voice is a nonprofit based in the northwest United States with all the classic woke trappings. Except Legal Voice goes further than much of the Left. Its 2024 legislative…
The Media’s Shameful Revisionist History of “Zuck Bucks”
On April 2, Wisconsin voters adopted a ban on private funding of elections. The next day, news headlines were filled with baseless smears. One particular article from USA Today used…
Torn on TikTok
The proposed ban on TikTok is a lesson in paradox and lobbying. As legislators like Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) have pointed out, it’s about free speech…
Willa Ann Johnson, RIP
We are saddened to report the death on February 25 of Willa Ann Johnson (1942–2024), the founder and first president of the Capital Research Center (CRC). Willa was a conservative…
The Muslim-American Community Must Denounce Hamas
The vast majority of Islamic institutions at home and abroad rejected Al-Qaeda and the Islamic State and made an Islam-based case against them. But there has yet to be a…
Martin Luther King Jr. Day, 2024
In 1983, Congress passed the bill creating a federal holiday honoring Martin Luther King Jr. on the third Monday of January. The federal holiday was first observed on January 20,…
Merry Christmas, 2023
Forty-two years ago, President Ronald Reagan addressed a nation facing turmoil abroad in Central Europe and high inflation at home, among numerous other challenges. His words may seem surprising relevant…
Thanksgiving Day 2023
Abraham Lincoln on proclaiming a national day of thanksgiving: “It has seemed to me fit and proper that they [‘the gracious gifts of the Most High God’—the prosperity of the…