Smartphones and a Generation
One day last summer, around noon, I called Athena, a 13-year-old who lives in Houston, Texas. She answered her phone—she’s had an iPhone since she was 11—sounding as if she’d just woken up. We chatted...
Google and Diversity
You may have heard that a Google software engineer anonymously circulated a memo about “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber.” The tech blog Motherboard reports that the memo went viral within the compan...
Comprehensive Immigration Reform?
Conservative efforts at health-care reform are, for the moment, a shambles. Conservative efforts at tax reform are foundering as well, though their prospects may be sunnier, given the habitual Republi...
Debate on Legal Immigration
When Donald Trump's policy adviser Stephen Miller stepped into the White House briefing room Wednesday to defend a plan for reducing levels of legal immigration, Jim Acosta of CNN was aghast and let e...
Mueller - Grand Jury in Washington
Charles Krauthammer “worr[ies] for the country” after news breaks of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s new grand jury. That, he said on Fox News, along with the bills introduced in the Senate to protec...
Not a Day Care: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth
What has happened to the American spirit? We've gone from "Give me liberty, or give me death!" to "Take care of me, please." Our colleges were once bastions of free speech; now they're bastions of spe...
The Challenge of Modernizing Islam: Reformers Speak Out and the Obstacles They Face
The entire foreign policy and much of the domestic policy of the United States and other Western governments are based on the proposition that the vast majority of Muslims are moderate and peaceful, i...
'Let the House Vote!' Faith Leaders Chant
Hundreds of Texas pastors and faith leaders rallied at the state Capitol Thursday morning in support of legislation to keep men out of little girls’ showers, restrooms, and changing areas. Though m...
First Liberty Attorneys Urge End to Notorious "HHS Mandate"
On Monday, three First Liberty Institute attorneys met at the White House complex with officials from federal executive agencies—including the Office of Management and Budget, Department of Labor, and...
Screen Time vs. Face Time
On August 6, will you and your folks be observing American Family Day around a dinner table, at a neighborhood pool, or on a walk in the park? If so, what will you talk about? How you survived the Jul...
The Trump Budget
Remember President Trump's "terrible" budget cuts?"Promises Little but Pain," warned The New York Times."Harsh and shortsighted," cried The Washington Post.Then Congress passed a budget. President Tru...
Contract With Republicans
In 1994, after 40 years in the wilderness, Republicans swept both houses of Congress, running on Newt Gingrich’s “Contract With America,” in which the GOP promised to hold votes on 10 popular policies...
