Trump-Biden Continuity As U.S. Military Carries Out Airstrikes in Syria

Reason Roundup Robby Soave | 2.26.2021 9:50 AM The U.S launched airstrikes Thursday on two compounds in Syria that were allegedly controlled by...

On Elite Campuses Like Smith College, Woke Students Have All the Power

Reason Roundup Robby Soave | 2.25.2021 9:30 AM During the summer of 2018, a Facebook post by a black Smith College student named Oumou Kanoute...

Tennessee Republicans Call on University Presidents To Punish Student-Athletes for Kneeling

First Amendment Robby Soave | 2.24.2021 4:00 PM All of Tennessee's Republican state senators have signed a letter to the state's university...

Bill de Blasio: 1 Mask Good, 2 Masks Better

Reason Roundup Robby Soave | 2.24.2021 9:30 AM Coronavirus developments across the country have largely taken a positive turn, with deaths and...

It's Neither Sexist Nor Racist To Oppose Neera Tanden for OMB

Reason Roundup Robby Soave | 2.23.2021 9:46 AM President Joe Biden has nominated Neera Tanden, a former adviser to Hillary Clinton and president...

Lawmakers to Cable Providers: Why Are You Letting News Channels Say These Things?

Free Speech Robby Soave | 2.22.2021 3:52 PM Today two Democratic members of Congress sent letters to the presidents of Comcast, AT&T, Verizon,...

Anthony Fauci Says Americans Might Still Need To Wear Masks in 2022

Reason Roundup Robby Soave | 2.22.2021 9:30 AM Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden's chief medical adviser and part of the federal government's...

School Board Mocks Parents Who Support Reopening: 'They Want Their Babysitters Back'

Some Fairfax Students Go Back to School 2 Days a Week, Wear Masks, Sit 6 Feet Apart While Their Teachers Stay Home

Public schools Robby Soave | 2.16.2021 3:04 PM A Fairfax, Virginia, high school has at long last reopened: Some students can now come to class...

What The New York Times' Hit Piece on Slate Star Codex Says About Media Gatekeeping

Media Criticism Robby Soave | 2.15.2021 7:30 AM Back in June, pseudonymous blogger Scott Alexander deleted his blog—Slate Star...

Disney Cancels The Mandalorian Star Gina Carano Over Provocative Social Media Posts

Cancel Culture Robby Soave | 2.11.2021 12:18 PM Gina Carano is a former MMA fighter, outspoken Republican, and co-star of Disney's The...

The Guardian Fired Columnist Nathan Robinson After a Joke Tweet About Military Aid to Israel

Media Criticism Robby Soave | 2.10.2021 5:45 PM Nathan Robinson is editor of the leftist magazine  Current Affairs, and until recently, a...

Randi Weingarten Says D.C. Schools Should Close for Extra Cleaning if Anybody Catches COVID-19

Coronavirus Robby Soave | 2.10.2021 10:15 AM It has been obvious for months that among the various strategies for reducing the transmission of...

Kansas Legislators Want to Expand School Choice Options for Kids Stuck With Virtual Learning

School Choice Robby Soave | 2.9.2021 2:00 PM Something is happening in Kansas that ideally would spread to every other state in the country:...

San Francisco School Board President Says Critics of School Renaming Are Undermining Anti-Racist Work

Public schools Robby Soave | 2.8.2021 9:53 AM In Following the Equator, an 1897 book of social commentary, Mark Twain wrote: "In the first...

I’ve Documented Cancel Culture for Years. Marjorie Taylor Greene Is No Cancel Culture Victim.

Rep. Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican, thinks “cancel culture”—the ill-defined practice of punishing people for saying stupid things—has gone...

When Fairfax Schools Reopen, More Than 2,000 Teachers Will Still Teach From Home

Public schools Robby Soave | 2.5.2021 3:56 PM Fairfax County, Virginia, plans to partly reopen schools later this month, but some students will...

Biden's Press Secretary Says Social Distancing and Masks Will Be 'Essential' Even After Vaccination

Coronavirus Robby Soave | 2.5.2021 9:58 AM White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters at a briefing on Thursday that the president...

Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot Says Teachers Must Go Back to School: 'Enough Is Enough'

Public schools Robby Soave | 2.4.2021 11:39 AM Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot pleaded with the city's public school teachers to return to...

Newsmax Censors My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell During Segment About Twitter's Censorship of Mike Lindell

Twitter Robby Soave | 2.2.2021 8:41 PM My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell, an ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump who wrongly believes the...

Maryland Is Vaccinating Remote Public School Teachers Before In-Person Private School Teachers

Public schools Robby Soave | 2.2.2021 4:27 PM In Montgomery County, Maryland, the public schools have remained closed since last March while many...

San Francisco Schools Renamed the Arts Department Because Acronyms Are a Symptom of White Supremacy

Public schools Robby Soave | 2.2.2021 10:00 AM The San Francisco United School District isn't quite finished with its renaming binge: The...

San Francisco School Board Votes 6-1 To Rename 44 Schools

Public schools Robby Soave | 1.27.2021 4:49 PM San Francisco's school board voted 6-1 on Tuesday to accept a committee's recommendation to rename...

President Biden Should Tell Chicago Teachers To Return to School

National School Choice Week Robby Soave | 1.27.2021 11:30 AM If President Joe Biden really wanted to unite the country at this moment of profound...

Twitter Unveils 'Birdwatch,' a New Platform Where Users Fact-Check Tweets

Twitter Robby Soave | 1.25.2021 1:00 PM On Monday, Twitter debuted a new feature that will allow users to add notes to other people's tweets....

Chicago Teachers Union Refuses Order To Go Back to Classrooms

National School Choice Week Robby Soave | 1.25.2021 11:15 AM Members of the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) voted overwhelmingly on Sunday to...

Cancel Culture Comes for Will Wilkinson

Cancel Culture Robby Soave | 1.22.2021 12:13 PM Will Wilkinson is a vice president at the left-leaning Niskanen Center, a contributing writer at...

D.C.'s Unscientific Vaccination Plan Pits the Elderly Against the Obese

Coronavirus Robby Soave | 1.21.2021 11:49 AM When Washington, D.C., enters its next phase of vaccine distribution in February, all residents who...

The 2020 Election Was a Rebuke of Socialism

Politics Robby Soave | From the February 2021 issue Two days after the 2020 election, which saw Democrats capture the White House while losing...

There's Still No Evidence Antifa Was Significantly Involved in the Capitol Riots

Capitol Riot Robby Soave | 1.15.2021 2:00 PM The riots that gripped the Capitol on January 6 were overwhelmingly the fault of President Donald...

No, AOC, It's Not the Government's Job to 'Rein in Our Media'

Free Speech Robby Soave | 1.14.2021 3:50 PM Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D–N.Y.) told her social media followers earlier this week that...

Young Americans for Liberty Removes President After Sexual Misconduct Allegations

MeToo Robby Soave | 1.14.2021 10:06 AM Young Americans for Liberty fired its president, Cliff Maloney, after numerous women—some of them former...

Why Purging Social Media of Extremist Speech Might Not Make Us Safer

Capitol Riot Robby Soave | 1.12.2021 4:11 PM It's been a wild week on social media. Twitter and Facebook permanently suspended President Trump...

Antifa Demands Powell's Stop Selling Andy Ngo's Book, Forces Store To Close Early

Free Speech Robby Soave | 1.11.2021 10:07 PM Far-left activists surrounded Powell's Books in Portland on Monday and demanded the store stop...

With educators getting COVID-19 vaccine, it’s time to open schools

Vaccinations for teachers, which began on Monday, mean there’s no argument left for closing down schools. Many elementary classrooms reopened full...

Citing Trump's Rhetoric, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos Resigns

Robby Soave | 1.7.2021 10:16 PM Education Secretary Betsy DeVos resigned on Thursday, becoming the second Cabinet secretary to exit the...

No, Antifa Wasn't Behind the Capitol Riot

Conspiracy Theories Robby Soave | 1.7.2021 1:39 PM In the wake Wednesday's mob assault on the U.S. Capitol, some conservatives are trying to...

Trump Supporters Stormed the Capitol, Smashed Its Windows, and Fought the Police

Election 2020 Robby Soave | 1.6.2021 4:00 PM Thousands of President Trump's supporters surrounded the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday afternoon as...

Jeopardy!

TV Robby Soave | From the February 2021 issue On November 8, 2020, Jeopardy!'s legions of fans received the devastating news that beloved...

The NYT’s obscene drive to destroy a teen’s life

Jimmy Galligan is an 18-year-old college freshman from Leesburg, Va. — and cancel culture’s Count of Monte Cristo. Some months ago, Galligan, who...

The New York Times Helped a Vindictive Teen Destroy a Classmate Who Uttered a Racial Slur When She Was 15

Cancel Culture Robby Soave | 12.28.2020 10:20 AM Jimmy Galligan is an 18-year-old college freshman from Leesburg, Virginia. He may also be cancel...

New COVID-19 Relief Bill Also Creates 2 New Museums and a Library, References Dalai Lama Controversy

Coronavirus Robby Soave | 12.21.2020 4:20 PM Congress reached a deal on Sunday to pass $2.5 trillion worth of COVID-19 relief for families and...

An Anti-Racist Education for Middle Schoolers

Education Robby Soave | From the January 2021 issue K-12 students in large public school districts across the country spent much of the fall...

To Mitigate Racial Inequity, the CDC Wants To Vaccinate Essential Workers Before the Elderly

Coronavirus Robby Soave | 12.18.2020 5:36 PM Deaths from COVID-19 are overwhelmingly concentrated among the elderly, and thus it would seem...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo Bans Sale of Confederate Flags, Despite Knowing This Has First Amendment Problems

Andrew Cuomo Robby Soave | 12.16.2020 11:59 AM New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a Democrat, signed legislation on Tuesday prohibiting the sale of...

You Don't Need To Believe Andrew Cuomo's Accuser To Think He's a Terrible Governor

Andrew Cuomo Robby Soave | 12.14.2020 2:14 PM A former staffer says that New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo "sexually harassed me for years." Lindsey...

Self-Victimhood Is a Personality Type, Researchers Find

Psychology/Psychiatry Robby Soave | 12.10.2020 4:28 PM Many social commentators have argued that an emerging "victimhood culture" incentivizes...

School Board Won't Reverse Fourth-Grader's Suspension for BB Gun Incident During Virtual School

Coronavirus Robby Soave | 12.7.2020 1:20 PM In September, Louisiana's Jefferson Parish Public Schools suspended a 4th grader—Ka'Mauri...

U.S. Media Readers 'Strongly Prefer Negative Stories About COVID-19'

Coronavirus Robby Soave | 12.7.2020 12:20 PM Why are Americans so prone to wallowing in despair? A new working paper from the National Bureau of...

Chicago Teachers Union: 'The Push To Reopen Schools Is Rooted in Sexism, Racism, and Misogyny'

Coronavirus Robby Soave | 12.6.2020 5:33 PM The Chicago Teachers Union, which represents more than 28,000 educators in the nation's third largest...