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China’s Growing Political Autocracy Limits Its Economic Prospects
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s attempt to build a more socialist economy with excessive Communist Party control contradicts more market-oriented reforms China has tried to implement since the late 1970s. On October 16, the…
Left Wants to Control All Information, So It Fears Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover
Entrepreneur Elon Musk is taking over Twitter and the Left is melting down. On Thursday, Musk officially completed his $44 billion acquisition of the social media giant. He immediately began to shake up the company and fired…
Jewish Leaders Condemn ‘Antisemitic’ New York Times Article for ‘Whitewashing’ a ‘Pogrom’
Jewish leaders, speaking to The Daily Signal, condemned a New York Times article for having “whitewashed” a “pogrom.” As Republican gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin met with rabbis in New York City’s Orthodox community,…
The Real Dispute at Heart of Affirmative Action Cases Now Before High Court
“Can a court be blind to what must be necessarily known to every intelligent person in the state?” So wrote Judge Lorenzo Sawyer 136 years ago in a case challenging a San Francisco licensing ordinance regulating laundry…
‘Horrendous Racial Discrimination’: Asian Activists Explain What’s at Stake in Supreme Court Cases
The United States Supreme Court heard two affirmative action cases Monday related to allegations of discrimination at Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The organization Students for Fair…
Doctor Compares Crisis Pregnancy Centers to ‘Terrorists’ During Democrat-Led Hearing
A University of Pennsylvania doctor appeared to compare crisis pregnancy centers to “terrorists” during a Friday hearing, accusing these pro-life centers of harming and targeting mothers. Courtney Schreiber, chief of the…
Entertainment Industry, Social Media Normalize Transgender Content That Could Harm Kids
Our society loves to consume entertainment in all its forms. Whether it’s streaming films and TV shows via apps such as Netflix and Hulu or scrolling TikTok, Instagram, or Twitter, media are now ubiquitous. Thanks to…
Minors Continue With Trans Treatments After Starting Puberty Blockers, Study Finds
As a study from the Netherlands revealed that the vast majority of minors who took puberty-blocking drugs continued taking treatments to advance gender transition, another highly publicized study purporting to show improved…
Twitter Bans Conservatives, Including Heritage Foundation Expert, One Week Before Midterm Elections
Twitter suspended conservative accounts just over one week before the midterm elections, including the account of a Heritage Foundation scholar and the leader of a conservative nonprofit. Jake Denton, a research associate at…
2 States That Should Be Able to Sue Over Biden’s Student Loan Bailout
President Joe Biden’s student loan bailout is illegal. That’s not a hard call, but before a court can consider the merits of Biden’s scheme, a plaintiff must have what the law refers to as “standing.” Standing is a doctrine…