Video: What Do Conservatives Have in Common with the Black Panthers?
Truth is often stranger than fiction. In 1967 the Black Panthers were the known as the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. This early version of the Black Panthers had some…
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Catharsis Comes for the Education Monopoly
This School Choice Week—which runs through Friday, January 28—many activists are celebrating 2021 as the “year of school choice” and hailing advances that charter schools, private school subsidies, and other…
InfluenceWatch Podcast #195: How Teachers Unions Affect Elections
Liberal special interests have effective control of many municipal governments and government arms. The most notable case: school boards. Thanks to “three exploits” of block voting, nonpartisan races, and off-cycle…
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Public Education
In the eighth episode of The Politically Incorrect Guide, Tom Woods and Michael Malice demolish America's public education system. Public schools constantly claim they need more money yet receive record-breaking…
The Black Panthers Promoted the Second Amendment and Private Schools
The Black Panthers were nobody’s idea of responsible gun ownership in 1977. But it didn’t start out that way. In 1967 they were the known as the Black Panther Party…
Is Pastors for Texas Children a Front for Texas Teachers Unions?
Pastors for Texas Children, a left-of-center advocacy group in Texas, claims to be a charitable organization that is “not beholden to any special interest group.” If its electioneering activities over…
Teachers Unions Don’t Always Get Their Way
Across the country, in states both red and blue, state legislatures are acting against union obstinacy to get children back into classrooms. Some are enacting even bolder reforms that will…
It’s Time to Get Mad
When schools across the nation closed in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, few would have predicted that large swathes of the United States, almost alone among nations in…
School Choice: Now More than Ever
Americans are beginning to wake up to the Biden administration’s obsequiousness to its paymasters in organized labor, and they are watching with growing alarm as teachers unions vow never to…
School Choice and Democracy: Friends or Foes?
A policy forum on school choice held on July 26 by the Cato Institute, a libertarian policy think tank, featured an informed and interactive debate on whether private school vouchers…