The U.S. economy and national defense rely heavily on imports of critical minerals from China, Russia, and other countries with poor records on environmental conservation, human rights, or both.
By the mid-1970s a tipping point had already been reached with more public land withdrawn from mineral development than was accessible for development.
Much the land withdrawn from exploration and mining is in the American Cordillera, the mountain ranges in the western United States and Alaska where mineral deposits of economic significance are…
The Youth Policy Institute's rapid demise demonstrates how nonprofits that become reliant on money from the federal government for their very existence can jeopardize their intended beneficiaries when they collapse,…
The fifth episode, “Howard Zinn, Hollywood, & the Fairy Tale of American Evil,” covers the influence of the late Howard Zinn. Zinn was a historian and far-left political activist best…
Chris Arnade’s book Dignity does a fine job of meeting—and introducing readers to—America’s poorer class. It fails, however, to ask the right questions about addressing poverty.
Documents recently obtained by the Capital Research Center shed more light on the hazy origins of the Sixteen Thirty Fund, a mega-lobbying group that Politico has labeled a “massive…
We’re starting off the New Year by taking one last look back at the old year, thanks to the “2019 Philanthropy Awards” published by Inside Philanthropy, a left-of-center news and…
Widely respected historian Gertrude Himmelfarb, who died on December 30 at the age of 97, relied upon her deep and wide knowledge of Victorian England to argue for the reintroduction…