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Is Your Connection to Israel ‘More Than Just a Feeling’? This Ancestry Service Can Give You the Answer
ORLANDO, Fla.—An ancestry service based in Israel aims to connect people across the globe, helping them explore their family trees and see whether they have any relatives living in the Holy Land today. “People believe that…
Decline in Religion Doesn’t Bode Well for the Republic
Over the last several decades, a growing number of Americans have abandoned their faith — usually Christianity — to join the ranks of the nonreligious. These “Nones” describe themselves as atheists, agnostics or “nothing in…
Let’s Celebrate Brown 2.0, Then Move to Family Formation
By eliminating racial preferences in university admissions, the Supreme Court has finally exorcised a baleful spectrum that has haunted the country for over half a century. We should all take a moment to celebrate this de…
Indiana Supreme Court Rules Abortion Ban Is Constitutional
The Indiana Supreme Court issued a decision Friday that said the state’s abortion ban was constitutional in a 4-1 ruling, according to the text. Senate Bill 1 was signed into law in 2022 and prohibited abortion with limited…
The Document That Inspired the Declaration of Independence
It’s common for Americans on July 4th to read and discuss the Declaration of Independence, and to reflect on its principles and ideas. Those principles and ideas are often attributed solely — though wrongly — to Thomas…
Why Articles of Confederation Failed and Constitution Succeeded
The American Revolution served as a test to see if the 13 colonies could come together to “identity as a people, as a nation,” Richard Reinsch says. The question after the war was “had they actually become in effect one…
How America’s ‘Indispensable Man’ Led Nation to Victory in Revolutionary War
Many Americans at the time didn’t think it was possible to defeat a military power as great as Britain at the start of the Revolutionary War, according to Paul Moreno. “I think just about any historian looking backwards would…
Trump Promises to Swing Hammer of Executive Orders on Behalf of Parents
PHILADELPHIA—Former President Donald Trump promised to issue executive orders and ask Congress to pass laws that protect parental rights in a speech Friday evening at Moms for Liberty’s Joyful Warriors National Summit here.…
It’s the First Amendment, Stupid: Supreme Court Holds That Free Speech Prevails in Challenge To Anti-Discrimination Law
A Politico headline said that a recent Supreme Court decision “limits LGBTQ protections” while an ABC News story told us that it was about whether “businesses can refuse to serve LGBTQ+ customers.” The decision today in 303…
In Student Loan Decision, Supreme Court Affirms President’s Power Has Limits
Can limits be found even to an emergency? Can the Constitution’s tripartite division of federal powers withstand the blows and novel respiratory viruses that history lobs at us from time to time? Can they withstand the…