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Keri D. Ingraham
April 2, 2026
Education
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Parents Are Gaining More Control in Education and the Results are Hard to Ignore

Keri D. Ingraham
April 2, 2026
Education
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Across the country, policymakers have long assumed that boosting K-12 funding is the surest path to better student outcomes. Yet decades of rising spending have proven otherwise. The missing ingredient is not money — it’s meaningful choice. Read More ›
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Michele Steeb
March 31, 2026
Homelessness
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Newsom Tries to Shift Blame on Homelessness to Local Government

Michele Steeb
March 31, 2026
Homelessness
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Gavin Newsom stood before the cameras in early March and once again blamed local governments for the state’s spiraling homelessness crisis. “No more excuses,” he thundered, threatening to strip funding from counties he claims are underperforming while promising to redirect “every damn penny” to those “getting things done.” Read More ›
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Wesley J. Smith
March 31, 2026
Human Exceptionalism
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Human Uterus Kept Functioning Outside the Body for Experiments

Wesley J. Smith
March 31, 2026
Human Exceptionalism
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Brave new world alert! Scientists used a machine deployed in organ transplant medicine to keep a surgically removed human uterus alive for one day, furthering the goal of being able to use donated uteri experimentally over long periods of time, including for gestation. Read More ›
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President Donald Trump signs an Executive Order to dismantle the Department of Education, Thursday, March 20, 2025, in the East Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)
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Keri D. Ingraham
March 31, 2026
Education
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One-Year Anniversary of a Historic Executive Order

Keri D. Ingraham
March 31, 2026
Education
3
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The Center for Science and Culture
March 30, 2026
Intelligent Design, Religion and Civic Life
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America’s Founders and Intelligent Design

The Center for Science and Culture
March 30, 2026
Intelligent Design, Religion and Civic Life
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In the Declaration of Independence, America’s Founders proclaimed that “all men are created equal” and “are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” These were not idle words. They were supported by the Founders’ firm conviction that nature supplied objective evidence of a Creator. In this video, learn the untold story about the Founders’ belief that nature was intelligently Read More ›

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Jonathan Choe and Kevin Dahlgren
March 26, 2026
Homelessness
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Skid Row’s Cash-for-Ballots Scheme

Jonathan Choe and Kevin Dahlgren
March 26, 2026
Homelessness
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Discovery Institute has joined up with Frontlines Turning Point USA, O’Keefe Media Group, and other independent journalists in a multi-part investigation into a cash-for-ballots scheme in Los Angeles’ Skid Row. Jonathan Choe and Kevin Dahlgren help expose the exploitation of the homeless, the theft of the identities of innocent Americans, and the violation of state law in some of America’s Read More ›