Equality and Opportunity

  Gluttony: characterized by a limitless appetite   It was the late 1860s, and the city of New Orleans had a gruesome problem: Animal intestines clogged the city's water pipes. The drinking water was tainted: It contained bits of meat and offal from slaughterhouses a mile and a half upstream, where butchers gutted 300,00 ...

Just in time for Halloween, the State of California has properly dealt with zombie legislation. The Governor recently signed AB 1604, "The Upward Mobility Act," a bill that attempted to bring a racial quota back from the dead when the legislature first introduced it. Thankfully, what the Governor signed into law bears little resemblance to its orig ...

Brandeis University was founded in Waltham, Mass., in 1948, when other universities commonly employed quotas to exclude Jewish, African American or Asian American students from admission. Universities such as Harvard used subjective screener interviews and personality tests to try to detect Jewish applicants based on antisemitic stereotypes. Bra ...

The state of California, doing the bidding of union activists, has for years been waging war on independent contractors. This effort, exemplified by the disastrous Assembly Bill 5, has undermined various lines of work, including freelance journalism, Uber and Lyft, and other professions. If you needed proof that AB 5 was a flawed piece of legisl ...

Montgomery County, Md., is one of the wealthiest counties in the nation, noted for its diversity and deep blue political liberalism, and a place where Democratic presidential candidates routinely command over 70 percent of the vote. It is hardly one of the first counties that comes to mind when one thinks of "hotbeds for racism." But for today's ...

Three years ago this month, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed California Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) into law, essentially outlawing freelance journalism and most other independent contracting. Opponents of the bill warned the law would devastate the longstanding careers of many independent businesspeople in the Golden State. Three years later, it's c ...

It isn't often that a government agency sandbags a program that Congress has entrusted it to execute. But that's the case with the Department of Education (DOE) and the federal Charter Schools Program. Instead, DOE has radically upended its own process to make it harder, if not impossible, for most would-be charter schools to receive the federal fu ...

For Northern Virginia families hoping to send their kids to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology—the top-ranked public high school in the country—today (September 16) is a big day.  That's when the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments in Coalition for TJ v. Fairfax County School Board to determine whethe ...

American campuses, which should be havens for free speech, have become infested with puritanical zealotry that does not abide dissent, especially on controversial topics such as race and gender identity. Unfortunately, free speech on campus soon may face another setback. The Department of Education has proposed a rule that would hand campus crusade ...