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Feb 22 2020
Analysis
Here Are The Billionaires Funding The Democratic Presidential Candidates
As Democratic candidates drop out of the race, more billionaires are jumping in. By the end of 2019, about 20% of American billionaires had donated—either directly or through their spouse—to at least one Democratic candidate running for president, according to a review of the latest Federal Election Commission filings. At least 100 billionaires donated in their own names. And at least 25 did
Forbes
Mar 12 2019
News
Women running for president is the new normal
A record-breaking six women have already announced their candidacies for the Democratic nomination.
Six women — so far — have declared their candidacies for the Democratic nomination in 2020. It’s the most women who’ve ever run for a major-party nomination in history.
Until this cycle, there had been, at most, two women who had ever competed in a major party primary, according to
Vox
Jul 27 2022
Opinion
The Descent of Democratic Man
Why don’t the Democrats have better leaders?
We know why the Republicans don’t have better leaders: The GOP turned itself into a Donald Trump personality cult, and would-be alternatives such as Ron DeSantis of Florida haven’t figured out how to get out from under the considerable shadow of the former president. Republicans may find some focus if, as expected, they have a good election
Kevin D. Williamson
Jul 20 2022
Opinion
The Dog Ate Their Accountability
From sea to shining sea, ‘delete, delete, delete’ has become standard operating procedure for government officials seeking to evade public scrutiny.
Item: The January 6 committee wants relevant text messages sent by and to Secret Service officers for its investigation. The Secret Service says Congress can’t have them, because they were accidentally deleted — at least some of them after
Kevin D. Williamson
Jul 31 2019
News
Debate Night I
“Sanders, Warren clash with moderates over 'Medicare for All'... The signature domestic proposal by the leading progressive candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination came under withering attack from moderates Tuesday in a debate that laid bare the struggle between a call for revolutionary policies and a desperate desire to defeat President Donald Trump.” (AP News)
The left
The Flip Side
Mar 11 2019
News
The 2020 Democratic primary debate over reparations, explained
Openly talking about reparations for the descendants of enslaved men and women is a notable shift for Democrats. But the conversation still lacks substance.
A new 2020 litmus test has arrived for Democrats running for president: Do they support reparations?
It marks a turn in a primary contest in which black voters are expected to play a significant role. That the attention to
Vox
Apr 22 2022
Opinion
There’s No Such Thing as a Value-Neutral Education
The public schools are meant to serve — whom?
Writing in the New York Times, Frank Bruni thinks he has an answer: “all of us.”
“The schools . . . exist for all of us,” Bruni writes, “to reflect and inculcate democratic values and ecumenical virtues that have nothing to do with any one parent’s ideology, religion or lack thereof.”
This is naïve and ahistorical.
The
Kevin D. Williamson
Apr 10 2020
Analysis
Jerry Falwell Jr. Has a Free Speech Problem
Jerry Falwell, Jr., president of the evangelical Liberty University, has long positioned himself as a torch-bearer of free expression. "Free speech and intellectual diversity are two of the most important pillars of a college education," he wrote last June. "That's why I urge every college and university in the country to encourage open political discourse on their own campuses—just as we do
Reason
Aug 02 2020
Opinion
Thomas Sowell Goes to Bat for Charter Schools. Whiffs
The successful teacher strikes of 2018-2019 led to limits on charter school expansion and put charters on the defensive. Now economist Thomas Sowell is leading the counterattack.
Conservatives are hailing Sowell’s new book, “Charter Schools and Their Enemies,” and wielding it as a club against teachers unions and public education. Kevin D. Williamson of National Review calls the book "a
RealClearPolitics
Aug 12 2021
News
School mask debate in Tennessee grows heated as local board requires masks in elementary schools
Heated arguments spilled out into the parking lot Tuesday night after a school board in a suburban Tennessee county approved a temporary requirement for masks in elementary schools due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
As debates over masks in US schools have reemerged as the academic year begins, the Board of Education in Williamson County, just south of Nashville, approved the mask
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