According to Professor Philip Alston, United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, there is very little that is good about America. Alston recently released a statement chock full of misleading statistics that are being bandied about by people like former Obama official Andy Slavitt, who repeated one of Alston’s claims on his
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Some people on the left are starting to worry about getting trolled by the alt-right. This is because the alt-right has become aggressively anti-capitalist, pro-welfare state, and in favor of a government that specifically promotes white interests, not a free market that offers no privilege to anyone. “The alt-right is looking to expand its ranks,”
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Is it OK to sacrifice a child’s education in the name of preventing racial stereotyping? In a sane world, the answer would be “no.” But to the Obama administration, the answer was apparently “yes.” Because it thought that black and Hispanic children were wrongly stereotyped as needing special education, it issued a regulation in 2016
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Massachusetts has long been known as a leader in American education. As early as 1647, the state decreed that every sizeable town form a school to ensure that children learn to read and write. The state’s prominence in education has continued through the 21st century, in which Massachusetts is often held up as a model
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The Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) has released its distributional analysis of the final Republican tax bill. The bill provides even larger percentage cuts for middle earners than previous versions of the legislation. If the legislation is enacted, higher earners will pay an even larger share of the overall income tax burden than they do now. Our
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Monasteries began cropping up in corners of the Roman Empire even before Rome “officially” fell in 476 A.D. Rome had brought order to the Western world for nearly 1,000 years. In its absence, the monastery, which began as small religious settlements, would eventually grow into the dominant religious, cultural, educational, and economic institution of the
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