By Catherine Salgado As the late Pope John Paul II once said, we are living in an era where most countries promote a “culture of death.” One of the most obvious examples of this is the zealous, almost religious support of so many for abortion; even many people who understand that abortion is wrong still […]
By John Mueller On Thursday, March 16, we reach the 20th anniversary of the invasion of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq under the George W. Bush administration. There will be an afternoon of panels on that day at Cato reflecting on the event. As the invasion loomed, there was quite a bit of protest both in the […]
By Paul Kupiec In 2019 when Facebook announced plans to issue a new global stablecoin, Libra, governments took notice. The potential for Libra to be seamlessly adopted by more than 2.3 billion Facebook users challenged the idea that governments alone are vested with the power to issue “money” and raised legitimate concerns about the impact […]
By Jon Sanders You can fool all of the people some of the time; you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you can’t fool all the people all the time.” The fact that this quote is attributed either to Abraham Lincoln or P.T. Barnum perhaps testifies to its originator’s bona […]
By Jarrett Stepman In 2020, if you thought it was possible COVID-19 came from a lab in China you were labeled a conspiracy theorist, a peddler of misinformation, “bonkers,” and a racist. Facebook and other social media removed the lab leak claim from their apps or slapped “misinformation” labels on it. Facebook did so in […]
By Steve Goreham United States electricity prices are rising rapidly, up 18.1 percent over the last two years. Renewable energy advocates claim that wind and solar installations produce cheaper electricity than traditional power plants, but power prices are rising as more wind and solar is added to the grid. In fact, electricity prices are soaring […]
By Bruce Bialosky Our leaders have failed at a national balanced budget. They do not even begin to address whether we are anywhere near the possibility of a balanced budget. Charges are flying back and forth about whether anyone wants to cut Social Security and/or Medicare as some demagogue the issue. It is time to […]
By Goldwater Institute The city of Phoenix and its union enablers have shut the public out of its most recent contract negotiations—a process that is funded by Phoenix taxpayers and affects where their money is spent—in violation of Arizona’s Public Records Law. Today, the Goldwater Institute sued the city to bring these public records to light. If […]
By The Editors A Baltic monitoring media outlet has published footage of an enormous amount of American military equipment being prepared to move from the Port of Gdynia in Poland. The expanse of military hardware is being described as equipment belonging to the US Army’s 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. Some Eastern […]
By Corinne Murdock The Biden administration gave the city of Tucson $900,000 to build a biking and pedestrian bridge. The city’s initiative is one of 45 projects nationwide to receive a portion of $185 million in funds, the only one in Arizona to receive this round of funds. The bridge would provide a pathway over […]
By Neil Patel The American media has been liberal for decades, but the utter disregard for the truth that pervades much of the reporting today is something new. With all the alarm over misinformation on the Right, little attention has been paid to the much broader form of misinformation that dominant corporate media perpetrates today. […]
By Anna Miller and Scott Yenor Schools have assumed an outsized role in sex education in the past 50 years. Today, schools propagandize on behalf of transing kids, kinky sex, and coming out as gay. But this isn’t a problem just in leftist enclaves — schools in red states are promoting the same propaganda as […]
By Alexa Schwerha The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) revised or eliminated several scholarships and programs accused by medical watchdog Do No Harm Senior Fellow Mark Perry of being discriminatory after a federal probe was launched, Do No Harm reported. Perry filed a complaint in September 2022 against eight scholarships and programs offered by […]
By Catherine Salgado China expert Gordon Chang tweeted March 8 that the U.S. is going to be fighting a war with China on American soil. While he’s not, of course, infallible, and we can pray that he will be wrong, it is true that the evidence is in his favor. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) […]
By Mollie Hemingway Manu Raju is a Democrat activist and CNN reporter who camps out in congressional hallways to ask questions that help advance his party’s political agenda. He’s done it for years. Whether the Democrats are doing their Brett Kavanaugh smear, impeachment shenanigans, Russia-collusion hoax, or anything else, he’s there to ask questions that […]
By Yaakov Ophir “As glasses help people focus their eyes to see,” medical experts from the American Academy of Pediatrics rule, “medications help children with ADHD focus their thoughts better and ignore distractions.” In their view, as well as in the view of multiple other expert consortiums, the most appropriate way to treat the “lifelong […]
By Neland Nobel As readers may be aware of our past stock market commentaries, the stock market is at an important juncture. After last year’s bear market of a bit better than 20%, stocks started to rebound this year. Historically, it is normal for the third year of a Presidential term to be bullish. A […]
By Jeffrey Tucker Jordan Peterson’s interview with Jay Bhattacharya is one of the more insightful conversations to come out of the post-pandemic period. It’s fascinating to see Peterson coming to terms with the sheer scale of the lockdown during which time he was rather sick. We could have used his voice then and I have […]
By Craig J. Cantoni Diversity, equity, and inclusion are euphemisms for discrimination, enmity, and injustice. The cycle is as old as Homo sapiens. Members of a dominant race, ethnic group, religion, ideology, nationality, social class, tribe, or clan inflict injustices on members of a different race, ethnic group, religion, ideology, nationality, social class, tribe, or […]
By Mike McKenna Last week, a first generation American, a graduate of Harvard and Yale who built his fortune as a biotech entrepreneur, stepped forward and announced that he is running for the Republican nomination for president. Vivek Ramaswamy is already familiar to many on the political right for taking on many of the ideas […]
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