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Marvin Olasky
January 10, 2026
Discovery Institute
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Olasky Books: Benefits of Being an Outsider

Marvin Olasky
January 10, 2026
Discovery Institute
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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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Michele Steeb
January 8, 2026
Homelessness
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Tragic Tales Demand Reform

Michele Steeb
January 8, 2026
Homelessness
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American Center for Transforming Education
January 8, 2026
Education
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Keri D. Ingraham Kicks Off 2026 at the White House

American Center for Transforming Education
January 8, 2026
Education
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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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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 ›
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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 ›
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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 ›

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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 ›