To everyone trying to "both sides" the 2024 presidential election by claiming Joe Biden and Donald Trump are just two equally bad choices, here's my message: Cut the crap.
This isn't an election of two bad choices; it's an election of clear choices.
Black voters stand at a critical juncture. Our ancestors fought, bled and died for the right to choose our own destiny. One path leads toward a future that upholds the principles they fought for ...
Opinion
America is full of the living dead — and Mississippi is ground zero.
Millions of our fellow Americans are essentially living as if they were walking dead. No, it’s not the premise of the latest AMC apocalypse drama or a summer blockbuster — it's the harsh reality for too many individuals and communities. They lack health insurance and, as a result, go undiagnosed. Untreated conditions manifest as silent killers.
The stark reality is that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, access to primary health care remains a privilege for the well-moneyed fe...
Biden needs a new economic distress message
It’s time for a change. Not in presidents but in the incumbent’s economic message. There are less than five months left until Election Day, and the first presidential debate is June 27. There’s still time for President Biden to hone a new economic theme on the road in the battleground states before the great debate.
Biden’s approval rating for handling the economy is the biggest obstacle he faces on the way to a second term. That’s the reason the president finds himself in a c...
What’s the matter with libertarianism?
When I first came to Washington to work for the Heritage Foundation, there were a few think tanks that made the nerd in me stand a little bit in awe. First, of course, was Heritage, but the second was the Cato Institute.
Heritage was conservative and Cato libertarian, but both seem roughly on the same side. They differed as to how far things should go, but they were both always in opposition to the left. Conservatives wanted constitutionally limited government; liber...
People don’t feel richer because they’ve gained benefits instead of wages
Recent Gallup polls reflect a historically high 75 percent dissatisfaction with how things are going in America. Some might wonder how that jibes with continued economic growth and higher consumption across all income classes.
Meanwhile, at least since the publication of “What’s The Matter With Kansas,” Democratic pundits have complained that the public is unappreciative of all the economic good that the party has done for them. For their pa...
After Trump’s destruction, how much of the GOP will there be left to save?
There is a silver lining to Donald Trump bulldozing a major political party — Americans get a chance to see inside the wreckage of the old GOP.
Evangelicals claiming to uphold family values were long ago exposed as their principles fell away to allow them to justify support for a candidate known to talk of grabbing women and consorting with pornographic actresses.
But now Trump’s demolition of the GOP is nearly complete with news that he has put an end ...
Biden taints Title IX with gender ideology; women, children, religious freedom hardest hit
Schoolchildren, college students and families wrapping up the school year should enjoy summer while it lasts, because the next school year will be a wild one.
More than 20 states, ranging from Georgia to Idaho, have recently filed lawsuits against the federal government for its overreach in attempting to impose gender ideology in education. The lawsuits contest the Biden administration’s expansion of Title IX, the federal law that prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex...
We should plug the safety net’s biggest hole
Over the past half-century, the U.S. safety net has grown considerably stronger for children and elderly adults, substantially reducing poverty among them. But the story is starkly different for another group of Americans that we hear far less about: non-elderly adults, aged 18-64, who aren’t raising children and don’t have a severe enough, or long-lasting enough, disability to meet the stringent criteria for federal disability benefits.
This is no small group. In 2017, the la...
The massive constitutional implications of the Idaho abortion case
The Supreme Court heard oral argument last week in Idaho v. United States, a case that pits state law against federal law in a clash between a strict abortion ban and the protection of women’s health in emergency situations. Unlike Roe v. Wade and Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which addressed whether women have a constitutional right to decide for themselves whether to terminate a pregnancy under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, this case is a...
We’re paying off medical debt wrong
Medical debt imposes a crushing burden on millions of Americans. More than 40 percent of Americans owe medical debt, with 18 percent owing $2,500 or more.
Concerned by this issue, states and local governments have passed or are considering programs to fund debt relief. On Monday, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker announced a plan to eliminate $1 billion in medical debt per year. This adds to more than $12 billion in passed or proposed medical debt relief by 20 other states or local ...