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How to Save Iran 1-2-3

Iran has been experiencing quite a bit of disorder recently. The reasons for this are "complicated" — Iran has many foreign enemies, and the situation smells like an attempted "color revolution" — but the government of Iran has also been making quite a mess of things all by itself, recently and for a long time now. It's no surprise that even the most patriotic Iranians might be very dissatisfied today. Read More ›
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Olasky Books: Benefits of Being an Outsider

Jenny Taylor’s Saving Journalism (Pippa Rann Books, UK, 2025) ably chronicles the rise and fall of public interest reporting, and what we have lost as the powerful can now operate with fewer restraints. She notes how western culture’s journalistic innovators until about 1900 were “typically outsiders, religious dissenters who lived by a specific narrative: a narrative of reality and of Read More ›

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Tragic Tales Demand Reform

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Keri D. Ingraham Kicks Off 2026 at the White House

Following several invitations to the White House in 2025, Discovery Institute Senior Fellow and American Center for Transforming Education Director Keri D. Ingraham returned this week. The Trump Administration continues to prioritize the advancement of education freedom and education innovation, while breaking down the needless federal bureaucracy. Read More ›
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Tom Steyer’s Affordable Energy Promises to California Are Unaffordable

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 ›
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Assisted Suicide Legalized in Illinois

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 ›