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Reparations Roundup : September 2024

September 17, 2024 | By ANDREW QUINIO

Lawmakers across the country are proposing reparations to black Americans for slavery and America’s history of racial discrimination. Proposals have included direct cash payments, grants, formal apologies from the government, and government programs with race-based eligibility.  Because certain reparations proposals would inevitably advantag ...

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National Review : Supreme Court should revisit racial equity in high-school admissions

September 13, 2024 | By CHRIS KIESER

Racial balancing in competitive high school admissions is heading back to the Supreme Court. Just months after the Court declined to take up a parent group’s challenge to the admissions overhaul at then-top-ranked Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology (TJ) in Fairfax, Virginia, another set of parents is waging a similar ba ...

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A single mother is asking the Michigan Supreme Court for the just compensation she is owed

September 12, 2024 | By BRITTANY HUNTER

In 2020, the Michigan Supreme Court affirmed that it was unconstitutional for counties to keep more than they’re owed when collecting property taxes through the foreclosure process. But that wasn’t necessarily the end of struggle for Michiganders. For some homeowners, the struggle to recover the just compensation they are owed is still ...

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Reparations Roundup

August 19, 2024 | By SAMANTHA ROMERO

Lawmakers across the country are proposing reparations to black Americans for slavery and America’s history of racial discrimination. Proposals have included direct cash payments, grants, formal apologies from the government, and government programs with race-based eligibility.  Because certain reparations proposals would inevitably advantag ...

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This landmark Supreme Court case affirmed that free speech is for all ages

August 14, 2024 | By BRITTANY HUNTER

When siblings Mary Beth and John Tinker were just 13 and 15 years old, they found themselves at the center of a major Supreme Court case. The Court’s 1969 ruling would later be remembered as a groundbreaking decision that affirmed the First Amendment rights of students, regardless of age. Mary Beth, John, and their four … ...

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Craft brewer Scotty Hunter takes on Pennsylvania protectionism

August 06, 2024 | By BRITTANY HUNTER

Scotty Hunter and his friends developed a passion for craft brews in college. A chemical engineering major at Ohio University, Scotty started engineering his own brews during college and found he was pretty good at it. He even started a campus home brew club to showcase his and others’ creations. That club still thrives on … ...

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Nebraska midwife fights to fix ‘glitch’ in laws limiting home birth to least-qualified attendants

July 26, 2024 | By BRITTANY HUNTER

Certified Nurse Midwife (CNM) Heather Swanson felt the calling to be a midwife as early as junior high, when her mother was a group leader with La Leche League—an organization of women dedicated to helping and supporting breastfeeding mothers. Women would gather in one of their living rooms once a month—the second Tuesday—for support and  ...

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Capitalism in the ring : Read Ludwig von Mises and the six lessons of the Austrian school

July 23, 2024 | By ADAM GRIFFIN

Just after his victory in the ring at UFC 300, Brazilian-born fighter Renato Moicano exclaimed, “I love America, I love the Constitution…I want to carry…guns. I love private property. Let me tell you something. If you care about your…country, read Ludwig von Mises and the six lessons of the Austrian economic school.” T ...

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Ideological bias stripped one first-grader of her First Amendment rights

July 19, 2024 | By BRITTANY HUNTER

Does free speech have age restrictions? The Supreme Court says no. But one California judge ignored the Court’s landmark decisions and upheld a public school’s decision to punish a first-grader over a picture she drew in class. The student’s mother is now fighting back to protect her daughter’s right to free speech. An innoc ...