Issues

It appears that reparations advocates who fail to learn from history are doomed to a repeat veto. For the second session in a row, Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed several reparations bills that would have provided benefits to California descendants of enslaved persons. For instance, the bill would have offered descendants of enslaved persons college a ...

California Gets New Bureaucracy, Falls Short of Other Goals   Governor Gavin Newsom once again vetoed several bills that would have provided benefits to descendants of enslaved persons in California. The governor rejected measures that would have given descendants a college admission preference, priority licensing, homebuying assistance, and comp ...

Four hundred and five years ago today, America launched its first experiment in self-government by using a written agreement—rather than a king—to dictate the rule of law. With the signing of the Mayflower Compact, the Plymouth settlers voluntarily agreed to live under laws equally applied to all, the same principles later echoed by the Foun ...

While the federal government shutdown did not close federal courts, it did halt funding for the Department of Justice. It is everyday Americans seeking to vindicate their rights who pay the price, including one small business and millions of exhausted parents. This is the story of Nested Bean, a small Massachusetts-based company that should be t ...

California's restaurants are used to choking down the unpalatable. They've endured prolonged pandemic shutdowns, skyrocketing food costs and the slow exodus of customers fleeing high prices and higher taxes. Now, Sacramento has cooked up another ingredient for entrepreneurial misery: a law that will make California the first state in the nation ...

In 2020, Marcy Markes was confronted with a harsh reality. A nurse practitioner who has specialized in allergy and asthma care for more than two decades, she was forced to close three of her rural allergy clinics in central Missouri and consolidate her practice at her clinic in Columbia. Why? Missouri is one of 11 states that require advanced ...

What if Florida tried to tell Michigan how to manage its lakes? Or Texas dictated Oregon's school curriculum? Sounds absurd, right? Yet that's exactly what's happening to Pennsylvania's trucking industry—except California is calling the shots. On American Heroes with Kathy Hoekstra, Brian Wanner, president of Peters Brothers, shares how Pennsy ...

In December 2024, New York Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation further expanding the State's fracking ban to prohibit carbon dioxide extraction methods. This is just the latest in a series of regulatory "whack-a-mole" moves designed to prevent resource extraction altogether and keep clean natural gas "in the ground," as opponents openly admit. ...

Yesterday morning, a global audience tuned in to the U.S. Supreme Court's livestream to listen to oral arguments in the lawsuits over President Trump's "Liberation Day" tariffs.  Attorneys for the government presented arguments supporting the Trump administration's rationale for enacting the tariffs, while two sets of attorneys asked the ...