Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to retire, the one question no one is asking
After more than 27 years serving on the U.S. Supreme Court, Justice Stephen Breyer will step down.
Empty shelves are back
Yes, this is real life. Grocery store shortages are back.
The pandemic’s impact on students is real
Many school boards have closed schools and pushed online learning. How’s that working out?
Illinois pension crisis is for real
The Illinois Policy Institute is out with a new video that explains the under-the-radar but no less terrible pension crisis facing the Prairie State. Think the Illinois pension crisis can’t touch you? After years of piling up debt, it seems the state will just...
“Independent fact checkers” spot missing context — can you?
AOC. Barstool. But why exactly did they feel the need to weigh in here?
Herschel Walker on what it means to be a conservative
“I don’t believe in all that garbage. It’s a lie.”
Why conservative boycotts don’t work
In private conversations, and sometimes public forums, conservatives will lament the effectiveness of Leftist boycotts and muse as to why conservative action against woke corporations is not as effective. Generally, the answer comes back to the fact that the Left is...
How to preview WordPress theme changes without blowing up your site
Here’s three options to preview theme changes in Wordpress without blowing up your website.
Infographic: How the rest of the world does research
Political polling has been under constant fire since 2012 when Mitt Romney's pollster famously slipped on a banana peel of survey data and incorrectly predicted the former Massachusetts governor would oust incumbent Barack Obama. Donald Trump's unforeseen victory in...
Creating a Digital Benchmark
I’ve recently had several people ask for help creating digital campaigns, so I thought it would be helpful to put together all the questions that are a starting place to benchmark how an organization currently uses digital tools and resources. A lot has changed over...
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71% Want Disney to Return to Family-Friendly Entertainment
While LGBTQ activists are happy with Disney’s gay “inclusion” agenda, most Americans wish the entertainment giant would go back to it’s family-friendly roots.
DEI’s Demise: University of North Florida Closes Divisive Department
The University of North Florida closed its diversity, equity, and inclusion office on Wednesday, but DEI personnel were given new job titles, rather than being fired.
The former chief diversity officer, Richmond Wynn, was not fired, but given a new title—vice president of community engagement and partnerships.
Over 24,000 Migrant Children Released to Unrelated Sponsors
From January 2015 through May 2023, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released tens of thousands of minors who crossed the border illegally to sponsors who weren’t an immediate or distant relative, raising concerns about human trafficking and forced labor.
Lives Cut Short: A Project to Document Child Maltreatment Fatalities
On May 2, AEI hosted the launch of Lives Cut Short, a project of AEI and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) dedicated to documenting child fatalities from maltreatment in the US and understanding the circumstances and policy failures that led to them.
Let’s Stop Romanticizing the Cult of Protest
The current campus demonstrations are a reminder that of all the mossy clichés and puffed-up pieties of polite (and impolite) American discourse, the sanctity of protest is the hardest to question.
Doubting the loftiness of protest invites elite scorn more than any other skepticism about a constitutional right. Proposing limits on free speech, for example, attracts far less outrage. Indeed, people question free speech all the time: in debates about “hate speech,” campaign finance, social media, and more. (Let’s not even get into the fashionableness of questioning Second Amendment rights.)
High Court’s 9-0 Ruling Lowers Bar for Filing Anti-DEI Discrimination Lawsuits
A low-profile case decided Wednesday by the Supreme Court could have big implications for employers’ diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
US employers must accommodate abortions, birth control, agency says
U.S. employers’ obligation to accommodate workers’ pregnancies also extends to abortions and the use of contraception, the U.S. agency that enforces workplace discrimination laws said on Monday.
Denver’s Neighbors Rebel against Open-Arms Approach to Migrants: ‘We Do Not Want That’
In February 2018, Denver city leaders sent a valentine to foreigners interested in relocating to the progressive mountain city and a message to any elected officials looking to stop them.
Journalist Says CBS News Crossed ‘Red Line,’ Calls on Congress to Protect First Amendment
CBS News “crossed a red line” when it seized her reporting records, veteran investigative journalist Catherine Herridge says.
Denver Set to Defund Police, Firefighters to Pay for Illegal Aliens
Colorado’s capital, commonly referred to as a “sanctuary city,” announced Wednesday that it will spend $89.9 million on services for incoming illegal migrants, pulling some funding from roughly $45 million in public programs and services. The Denver Police Department will be hit with a reduction of $8.4 million— about 1.9% of its total operating budget, the city confirmed to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Biden’s latest effort makes Project 2025 an imperative for the next Republican Administration
The Biden administration’s proposed rule to entrench these bureaucrats raises concerns about accountability and the ability of future presidents to enact their policies effectively. In this context, The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 gains immense importance as a strategic response to these challenges.