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Simple silhouette of a church building with a cross on top, conveying the essence of Christian worship

^{Michele Steeb
April 17, 2026
Homelessness

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Reintegrating Faith Into the Nation’s Approach to Homelessness

_{Michele Steeb
April 17, 2026
Homelessness

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For more than a century, America’s response to homelessness was rooted in faith. Churches, rescue missions, Catholic Charities, and the Salvation Army fed the hungry, sheltered the vulnerable, and most importantly, walked alongside them toward restoration. They innately understood a fundamental truth: Homelessness is a human transformation challenge requiring recovery, accountability, and the restoration of purpose. Read More ›

^{Kevin Dahlgren
April 14, 2026
Homelessness

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LA’s Skid Row a Painful Monument of “Housing First” Policy

_{Kevin Dahlgren
April 14, 2026
Homelessness

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Skid Row in Los Angeles stands as a stark example of what happens when ideology overrides reality. Spanning roughly fifty blocks, it is one of the most concentrated homeless zones in the United States, filled with people trapped in addiction and untreated, severe mental illness, often marked by psychosis — a loss of contact with reality. For years, Los Angeles has wrapped its homelessness policies in the language of empathy and housing justice. But Skid Row reveals a harsher truth. Read More ›

Business woman reading newspaper in the morning

^{Robert J. Marks II
April 14, 2026
Technology

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Nothing Apocalyptic About AI, Let’s Stop the Headline Hype

_{Robert J. Marks II
April 14, 2026
Technology

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Most media content about AI today read like supermarket tabloids…sensational, shallow, and often misleading. They can confuse more than they clarify. The reasons are many: clickbait incentives, genuine ignorance, and biased enthusiasm from those selling AI products. Most of the authors of these articles have never taken a foundational computer science course, have never written code, and have never run AI software. Here are a dozen tips for detecting fake and misleading articles about artificial intelligence. Read More ›

^{Marvin Olasky
April 11, 2026
Discovery Institute

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Olasky Books: A new history of public housing

_{Marvin Olasky
April 11, 2026
Discovery Institute

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In December I reviewed Jane Leavy’s audaciously-titled Make Me Commissioner: I Know What’s Wrong With Baseball and How to Fix It. Howard Husock’s The Projects: A New History of Public Housing (NYU Press, 2025) comes from an academic publisher, which almost guarantees a boring title. A better title would have been: Make Me HUD Secretary: I Know What’s Wrong With “Affordable Read More ›

^{Center on Human Exceptionalism
April 9, 2026
Human Exceptionalism

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Watch: Wesley J. Smith Participates in Heritage Foundation Panel Discussion on Chinese Organ Harvesting

_{Center on Human Exceptionalism
April 9, 2026
Human Exceptionalism

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On April 7, Wesley J. Smith participated in a Heritage Foundation-hosted discussion titled, "Organ Harvesting: Communist China’s Hideous Shop of Horrors." He was joined by Discovery Institute Senior Fellow Jay Richards, Representative Chris Smith (R–NJ), Jan Jekielek (Senior Editor of The Epoch Times, host of “American Thought Leaders”), Ethan Gutmann, and Bob Moffit. Read More ›

The Treasury Building in Washington D.C. This public building is a National Historic Landmark and the headquarters of the US Department of the Treasury

^{Keri D. Ingraham
April 7, 2026
Education

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Trump Administration Taps Treasury to Fix Student Loan Failures

_{Keri D. Ingraham
April 7, 2026
Education

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^{Keri D. Ingraham
April 6, 2026
Education

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Schools Should Educate Children, Not Train Activists

_{Keri D. Ingraham
April 6, 2026
Education

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America’s public education system has drifted dangerously far from its core mission. Schools exist to educate children — to teach them how to read, write, think critically, and understand the world around them. But across the country, many classrooms are increasingly focused on something else entirely. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
April 3, 2026
Human Exceptionalism

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A River “Co-Authors” Science Papers

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 3, 2026
Human Exceptionalism

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mom meets her son from elementary school. joyful child runs into the arms of his mother. a happy schoolboy runs towards his mother holding a school bag in his hands.

^{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 ›

^{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 ›

Woman gynecologist holding anatomical model of uterus and ovaries

^{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 ›

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)

^{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

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