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^{Cornerstone University
March 20, 2026
Faith & Science, Religion and Civic Life

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Cornerstone University Traces Biblical Roots of America’s Founding

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March 20, 2026
Faith & Science, Religion and Civic Life

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Cornerstone University welcomed Dr. John G. West for a special America at 250 Community Chapel on campus. West serves as Vice President and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute and Cornerstone's Distinguished Scholar of American Government and Christian Civic Engagement. 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 Molly Riley)

^{Keri D. Ingraham
March 20, 2026
Education}

The Education Department Is Shrinking

_{Keri D. Ingraham
March 20, 2026
Education}

The U.S. Department of Education has spent more than $3 trillion since 1980, with little to show for it. Reading and math scores have barely budged, achievement gaps remain, and too many families are trapped in a system that fails their children. On March 20, 2025, President Trump took decisive action by signing an executive order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to dismantle the department and return authority to the states. Read More ›

^{Keri D. Ingraham
March 17, 2026
Education

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Parents—Not Schools—Must Be in Charge of Their Children

_{Keri D. Ingraham
March 17, 2026
Education

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Earlier in March, the U.S. Supreme Court had to step in and reaffirm the basic reality that parents, not schools, must be the primary decision-makers for their children. In the Mirabelli v. Bonta ruling, the Court determined that the California law, which barred schools from telling parents about their child’s claimed gender identity, violated parents’ constitutional rights—both their First Amendment free exercise rights and their Fourteenth Amendment rights to make decisions about their children’s upbringing. Read More ›

^{Marvin Olasky
March 14, 2026
Discovery Institute

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Olasky Books: Sweet charity and centuries of sacrifice

_{Marvin Olasky
March 14, 2026
Discovery Institute

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Karl Zinsmeister’s Sweet Charity (Mountain Marsh Media, 2026) has the semi-misleading subtitle Why private giving is so important to America (and must not be wrecked by politics). Semi-, that is, because while Zinsmeister’s opening chapter makes a cultural and political argument, the bulk of this delightful book is a travelogue of community-bolstering charities in Philadelphia and Florida, some wonderful, some Read More ›

^{Keri D. Ingraham
March 13, 2026
Education

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A School Choice Breakthrough That Costs Taxpayers Nothing

_{Keri D. Ingraham
March 13, 2026
Education

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What if you could help a child receive a better education at no cost to yourself? Beginning in 2027, Americans will be able to do exactly that. Under the Education Freedom Tax Credit, taxpayers can contribute up to $1,700 annually to approved scholarship-granting organizations and, in return, receive a dollar-for-dollar federal tax credit. Read More ›

Death, grief and girl at funeral with flower on coffin, family and sad child at service in graveyard for respect. Roses, loss and people at wood casket in cemetery with kid crying at grave for burial

^{Wesley J. Smith
March 10, 2026
Human Exceptionalism

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Euthanasia of the Mentally Ill Increasing in the Netherlands

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 10, 2026
Human Exceptionalism

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As the West lunges toward propagating a right to be made dead, the deleterious societal impacts of being legally “MAIDed” (killed by “medical assistance in dying”) are becoming increasingly clear. A recent professional analysis published in the Psychiatric Times illustrates the lethal influence on mentally ill suicidal people — including youth — in the Netherlands. Read More ›

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

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Supreme Court Prevents California Schools from Hiding Kids’ Gender Confusion from Parents

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

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California reprehensibly enacted a law that prohibits school administrators and teachers from informing parents about their child’s gender confusion. It is almost beyond belief that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals quashed a trial court injunction against the law — but then again, it is the Ninth Circuit. Read More ›

President Donald Trump signs an Executive Order on the Administration’s tariff plans at a “Make America Wealthy Again” event, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in the White House Rose Garden. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

^{Paul Teller
March 3, 2026
Economics

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Want to Boost U.S. Affordability? Get Rid of Tariffs

_{Paul Teller
March 3, 2026
Economics

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^{Keri D. Ingraham
March 2, 2026
Education

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A Renewed Vision for American Education

_{Keri D. Ingraham
March 2, 2026
Education

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American public education has lost sight of its purpose. Too often, progressive political agendas take time away from teaching core academic learning to children. A glaring example is the anti-ICE agenda that has infiltrated classrooms, where students are encouraged — and even instructed — during learning time to make signs and stand on street corners to protest during the school day. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
February 26, 2026
Human Exceptionalism

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Internationalists Want WHO to Have Power Beyond Mere Guidance

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 26, 2026
Human Exceptionalism

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I read John R. Puri’s post urging the U.S. to rejoin the World Health Organization because, 1) it is merely an advisory body and 2), it collects valuable health data. But Puri underplayed the overarching influence WHO exercised on national governments and corporations in enforcing the disastrous Covid-19 policies that caused so much harm, while he also ignored the internationalists’ plan to transform WHO into an organization with actual power to impose policies. Read More ›

^{Michele Steeb
February 23, 2026
Homelessness

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Obama Admits Housing First was a Losing Strategy

_{Michele Steeb
February 23, 2026
Homelessness

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Last weekend, former President Barack Obama acknowledged a blunt political reality: "The average person doesn't want to have to navigate around a tent city in the middle of downtown … and we're not going to be able to generate support [for treatment] if we simply say, 'It's not their fault, they should be able to do whatever they want,' because that's a losing political strategy." What makes the remark notable is not merely its candor. It is the history behind it. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
February 18, 2026
Human Exceptionalism

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Jesse Jackson Opposed Terri Schiavo’s Intentional Death by Dehydration

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 18, 2026
Human Exceptionalism

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