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How Prop. 36 Can Make California Safer and Healthier
Yesterday, California passed Proposition 36, the “Drug and Theft Crime Penalties and Treatment-Mandated Felonies Initiative.” The measure, which rolls back some of Proposition 47’s soft-on-crime ...
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The U.K.’s Educational Culture War
For the first time in more than a decade, a school year has started in the U.K. with a Labour Party government running the country. With little money in the national coffers and few concrete proposals ...
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A Democratic Reckoning on “Gender Identity”?
The Democrats’ catastrophic performance on November 5 showed their vulnerability on a number of key issues, but none perhaps ...
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New York’s Youth-Crime Plague
In a July press conference, New York City mayor Eric Adams painted an upbeat picture of public safety. “When you have six straight months of a decrease in crime,” the progressive former NYPD captain ...
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Why Boeing Killed DEI
A reckoning is underway in corporate America. After the death of George Floyd in 2020, it seemed that every Fortune 500 company had launched a “diversity, equity, and inclusion” program. But now, four ...
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Democrats Oppose Opportunity Scholarships
Kamala Harris often positions herself as a champion of “opportunity.” On education policy, however, her party is singing a different tune. At the behest of teachers’ unions, the Democratic Party ...
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Reparations Forever
New York City recently took a small step forward in correcting historical wrongs—at least, that’s what lawmakers would have you believe. The city council has passed a legislative package that would ...
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No on Proposition 1
On November 5, New Yorkers will be asked to vote on Proposition 1, the New York Equal Rights Amendment. New Yorkers for Equal Rights, a progressive group supporting the measure, claims that the ...
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Never Let a Crisis End
New York City’s perennial housing crisis—the city has regularly declared a housing “emergency” since 1971—is back on the city council’s agenda, with two proposals to address it. On the surface, the ...
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Green Grifters
The latest global climate conference opened Monday in Azerbaijan. The timing is excellent. Any doubt regarding the wisdom of ...
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Crying Out to Heaven
On the day after police discovered the lifeless body of four-year-old Jahmeik Modlin on the floor of an apartment in Harlem, every pew in St. Patrick’s Cathedral was filled for a special Mass. Finding ...