Equality and Opportunity

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 ...

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 ...

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal" is arguably one of the most powerful phrases ever written. Before those words were immortalized in the Declaration of Independence in 1776, equality was a subject for philosophers to debate and despots to fear—but it had never served as the moral foundation of government it ...

In acknowledging the struggles faced by rural hospitals, Congress recently created the Rural Healthcare Transformation Program. The program aims to increase access to health care in the areas that need it most and create the right incentives to lower the rates of chronic disease. The Rural Healthcare Transformation Program will help struggling rura ...

Today is Halloween—a night of costumes, candy, and, if you're lucky, a few harmless scares. But I couldn't help wondering: How does the Constitution intersect with the celebration of Halloween? Turns out, more than you might think. Masks, messages, and the First Amendment The most obvious connection between Halloween and the Constitution com ...

On Wednesday, PLF filed its third lawsuit against the State of Arkansas for a discriminatory racial quota law: Jay Greene v. Attorney General Tim Griffin, et al. Despite recent legislative changes, Arkansas law reserves a seat on Arkansas' Ethics Commission for members of minority races only, prohibiting people like Jay Greene from serving. Atto ...