The Organizational Structure of Black Lives Matter
What exactly is Black Lives Matter as an organization? In the broadest sense, Black Lives Matter refers to a protest movement spawned by recent and repeated instances of black men…
Special Report
Vote-by-Mail Dilemmas
While states seek to hold elections amid the coronavirus pandemic, many are questioning the viability of introducing a nationwide vote-by-mail election system. Oregon, Washington, Ohio, and Maryland ran into problems…
Margaret Sanger: The Birth of Birth Control
The woman who birthed Planned Parenthood—today the biggest provider of abortion services in the country—left a legacy so charged it’s bitterly despised by the Right and fanatically defended by the…
Margaret Sanger: The “Tragedy of Overpopulation”
Sanger conceived the term “birth control”—the direct predecessor to today’s “planned parenthood”—upon returning to the United States in January 1914. From the start, she had her eye on its propagandistic…
Margaret Sanger: Back in the USSR
Sanger’s most fascinating journey was a six-week trip to the Soviet Union in 1934. She met a number of American and Western European expatriates, including Joseph Stalin’s American dentist, who…
Margaret Sanger: Sterilization
Sanger herself was far from coy about sterilizing the “inferior,” though she was often careful with her wording. This has led to confusion and missed opportunities among pro-life conservatives and…
Margaret Sanger: The Woman Who United the Left
Perhaps the reason modern leftists continue to celebrate Margaret Sanger is because so many left-wing political movements can trace their origins to her work. Every major group on the Left…
David Keating Was Right
Institute for Free Speech president David Keating offered a helpful comment in February 2018 during a panel discussion at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., about a Capital Research Center…
Venezuelan Socialism: Socialism Always Fails
Under normal circumstances, Andrés Guilarte would be a typical college student, studying international relations at the Central University of Venezuela in Caracas, hanging out with friends and dreaming of what may…
Venezuelan Socialism: Guilarte’s Experience
The young Venezuelan Andrés Guilarte has witnessed the death spiral of socialism firsthand. Only a few years ago he was a young college student, spending his time on campus protesting those…