College campuses are known for radicalism—but more and more mainstream colleges are bending to identity politics and woke activism. Recently, Penny Nance, the president and CEO of Concerned Women for America, attended her son’s student orientation at Virginia Tech, where gender ideology was a dominant theme—pronouns and all. Read the interview, posted below, or listen […]
Planned Parenthood is making good on its threat to choose abortion over Title X funds. Title X is a federal program that focuses on providing family planning and related preventive services to low-income Americans at little or no cost. Last week, Planned Parenthood announced that rather than comply with the Trump administration’s new regulations relating […]
After a period of relative quiescence, Afghanistan burst back into the headlines in August. Current and former administration officials signaled President Donald Trump was keen to withdraw all U.S. troops from Afghanistan before the 2020 election. The administration is now reportedly close to signing an interim peace agreement with the Taliban. There is growing concern, however, that in […]
Free speech is increasingly under attack on college campuses — but if you think it’s bad here, look across the pond to Europe. Authorities over there are increasingly cracking down on so-called “hate speech” — a label that’s been applied to speech critical of Islam, homosexuality, and more. Paul Coleman, a British attorney who’s had […]
It has been an open secret for several decades that the writing is on the wall for most historically black colleges and universities. Since 1989, eight historically black colleges and universities have closed because of lost accreditation or bankruptcy. The reasons are myriad, but principally because these institutions no longer command a monopoly on attendees […]
The defense industrial base is at risk of losing another industrial partner, potentially leaving the submarine missile-tube sector with only a single producer. BWX Technologies is threatening to reallocate its industrial capacity to other programs. Based in Lynchburg, Virginia, the company is facing difficulties meeting the exacting specifications necessary and lacks the certainty of future […]
In a win for free markets and consumer choice, U.S. District Court Judge Eli Richardson issued a preliminary injunction on July 23 barring the state of Tennessee from enforcing a new law that would have made online auctioneering a licensed profession. The law, which was passed unanimously and signed by Gov. Bill Lee, a Republican, was set to take […]
In a recent article, the staff at Stratfor Worldview noted how the unwillingness and/or inability of allies to work with the U.S. to address regional security concerns ultimately limits the ability of America to meet new challenges. In early 2018, then-Secretary of Defense James Mattis made the case that a period of “long-term strategic competition” […]
Americans cite health care as a major concern, if not their most important one. Health care ranked as the most important issue in last year’s midterm elections, for instance, and consistently polls as the top concern in the nation. All of the Democratic candidates for president say they favor even greater expansion of federal government […]
President Donald Trump has repeatedly promised, “America will never be a socialist country.” Since Franklin Roosevelt began expanding government in the 1930s, the United States has increasingly adopted big-state policies associated with socialism. We may not be at the stage Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., would advocate, but more millennials appear to favor a system under […]
