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What can be done about child care?

After the pandemic started, Congress allocated some $24 billion in funding to help stabilize the child-care industry, which was hit particularly hard as parents pulled their kids out and kept them at home. This Saturday, that funding will go away, and many are terrified that tens of thousands ...

Our new Black Republican leaders

Recently I wrote about Mesha Mainor, who represents a deep blue district in Atlanta in the Georgia state legislature, announcing that she is switching parties and becoming a Republican. Mainor specifically noted her frustration with the Democratic Party in its opposition to improving ...

A surge of populism and nationalism

“Populist politicians and parties,” writes the Ethics and Public Policy Center’s Henry Olsen in The Spectator, are “rapidly gaining strength and power across the developed world.” They’re doing so despite the opposition and angry scorn of political and intellectual establishments of ...

On W.K. Kellogg the conservationist

Starting Oct. 2, Kellogg Company announced it will be dividing into two independently traded companies. Kellanova will handle all the snacks and WK Kellogg Co. will handle cereal brands. When people think of Kellogg’s, they tend to think Corn Flakes, Pop Tarts and Raisin Bran. But I think of ...

Today’s GOP and 60s radicals

This week, yet another government shutdown appears inevitable because a sizable chunk of the House Freedom Caucus believes, in the words of Otter in “Animal House,” that “this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.” What ...

Biden is a threat to democracy

President Joe Biden is pitching himself as the savior of democracy. “I will always defend, protect, and fight for our democracy,” he said at a campaign event last week in New York City. He’s been saying it for four years. It’s a blatant lie. He’s the king of censorship, silencing his ...