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Vienna - Nativity paint in presbytery of Salesianerkirche

^{Scott S. Powell
December 30, 2025
Economics

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Why Christmas is the Greatest Story of All Time

_{Scott S. Powell
December 30, 2025
Economics

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^{Walter Myers III
December 30, 2025
Energy

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Tom Steyer’s Affordable Energy Promises to California Are Unaffordable

_{Walter Myers III
December 30, 2025
Energy

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Tom Steyer, the billionaire climate activist running for California governor, promises to cut electric bills by 25 percent by breaking up big utility companies like PG&E and Southern California Edison. In his ads, he boasts about fighting oil and gas companies, like when he helped kill Proposition 23 back in 2010. But here’s the problem: California’s economy runs 84 percent on fossil fuels. It powers our cars (mostly petroleum), factories, homes for heating (mostly natural gas), and even backs up our electricity (gas plants fill the gaps). Steyer’s war on these companies ignores simple supply-and-demand math, making his bill-cutting talk ring hollow. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
December 29, 2025
Human Exceptionalism

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Bioethicist: Let Surgeons Kill Patients During Organ Harvesting

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 29, 2025
Human Exceptionalism

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^{Wesley J. Smith
December 13, 2025
Human Exceptionalism

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Assisted Suicide Legalized in Illinois

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 13, 2025
Human Exceptionalism

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The new Illinois law (SB 1950) contains many of the usual provisions and supposed safeguards. Once the law goes into effect next September, these putative protections will quickly be redefined as “obstacles” to a good death and the inevitable process of legal loosening will commence. Read More ›

^{Marvin Olasky
December 13, 2025
Discovery Institute

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Olasky Books: Make Me Commissioner

_{Marvin Olasky
December 13, 2025
Discovery Institute

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December is midway between the end of the baseball season in October and spring training reawakening in a Florida or Arizona February, so here’s a baseball book that can keep us warm at night. Jane Leavy’s Make Me Commissioner: I Know What’s Wrong With Baseball and How to Fix It (Grand Central Publishing, 2025) includes many proposals including my favorite: Read More ›

Young students sitting on University stairs. College friends studying together after class

^{Keri D. Ingraham
December 12, 2025
Education

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Ending the Woke Monopoly: White House Takes Aim at Higher Ed’s Ideological Capture

_{Keri D. Ingraham
December 12, 2025
Education

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Last week, the White House convened an education roundtable with U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon titled, "Biased Professors, Woke Administrators, and the End of Free Inquiry on U.S. Campuses." Secretary McMahon opened the event by stating, "It was an honor to be at the White House today with this dedicated coalition of students, faculty, institutional leaders, and policy advocates to highlight the issue of woke ideology and the capture of our institutions of higher education...." Read More ›

A boarded-up storefront with colorful graffiti art

^{Marsha Michaelis
December 11, 2025
Homelessness

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Good Dreams Destroyed by Bad Homeless Policies

_{Marsha Michaelis
December 11, 2025
Homelessness

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Doctor or surgeon in blue uniform holding surgical knife or scalpel to do surgery inside operating room in hospital under surgical lamp.People pick up surgical blade with white clean space.

^{Wesley J. Smith
December 9, 2025
Human Exceptionalism

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Purchasers of Black-Market Human Organs Often Complicit in Murder

_{Wesley J. Smith
December 9, 2025
Human Exceptionalism

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The black market in human organs does not receive nearly enough attention. China is probably the worst offender here, with political prisoners like Falun Gong practitioners and Uyghur Muslims arrested, tissue-typed, killed, and harvested to supply well-off buyers who don't want to wait in the donation queue. Now, a gruesome story out of Nigeria vividly illustrates the sheer evil of this trade in human tissues. Read More ›

^{American Center for Transforming Education
December 4, 2025
Education

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Keri D. Ingraham Attends White House Education Roundtable

_{American Center for Transforming Education
December 4, 2025
Education

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Marking her sixth invitation to the White House this year, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow and American Center for Transforming Education Director Keri D. Ingraham attended an education roundtable on December 3. The roundtable discussion, led by U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon, was titled “Biased Professors, Woke Administrators, and the End of Free Inquiry on U.S. Campuses.” This was the second of a three-part higher education roundtable series. Read More ›

President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and senior staff applaud in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, as the House passes the health care reform bill, March 21, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) This official White House photograph is being made available only for publication by news organizations and/or for personal use printing by the subject(s) of the photograph. The photograph may not be manipulated in any way and may not be used in commercial or political materials, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the First Family, or the White House.

^{Walter Myers III
December 4, 2025
Economics

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It’s Time to Say Goodbye to the Obamacare Failure

_{Walter Myers III
December 4, 2025
Economics

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Imagine tuning into a Sunday football game. Amid the flurry of touchdowns and tackles, the commercials are filled with familiar names — State Farm, Allstate, Liberty Mutual, and Farmers — vying for your dollars to cover your cars, homes, and personal liability. You have choices, and the competing advertisements are evidence of a robust marketplace where consumers benefit from price competition and innovation. But imagine if, alongside those ads, you could also shop for your health insurance — across state lines, no different than car or home coverage. Read More ›