It is amazing to see what people can get paid to do nowadays. In 2012, Xan Tanner founded a company the purpose of which was to produce and administer surveys of entire school districts. Tanner’s company produces extremely expensive surveys (he charged $288,000 to administer three questionnaires to Arlington Public Schools over five years) for […]

Can you find Gambia on a globe? Either way, it is the only nation on Earth that is successfully living up to its commitments under the Paris accord on climate change. That’s how serious the Paris Agreement is — no one is living up to their commitments except for Gambia. Aren’t you glad President Joe […]

President Joe Biden is desperate to change the subject. Amid his border crisis, the stall of the economic recovery he inherited, and his administration’s lethal and disorderly rout in Afghanistan, he is trying to pick a domestic political fight he thinks he can win. This is the only sensible explanation for why Biden’s Department of […]

On the topic of teachers unions, COVID-19 has been a real education. In good times, teachers unions will go to the mat to defend a corpse in the classroom if that’s what it takes to prevent an unfit teacher from being fired. And in bad times, they will go to the mat to avoid having […]

Now that the Taliban are going door to door, hunting and executing Afghans who worked for the United States, Democrats want everyone to know that conservatives in the U.S. are just as dangerous — or even worse. “Why should our soldiers be fighting radicals in a civil war in Afghanistan? We’ve got our own on […]

In The Bonfire of the Vanities, novelist Tom Wolfe wrote if a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged, then a liberal is a conservative who has been arrested. But then, what name would he give to the path of disillusionment Maud Maron, like many others, is now treading? A far-left career activist, Bernie […]

The Justice Department is challenging laws on transgender people passed by two states that it argues violate federal law and constitutional protections. The department filed statements of interest in lawsuits over transgender bans in West Virginia and Arkansas to overturn the laws. West Virginia enacted a law April 28 barring transgender athletes from competing in […]

Democrats and the liberal media are policing the words we should use to describe the absolute catastrophe we’re witnessing each day at the southern border. They don’t like “crisis” or “surge.” So, let us propose this description: Joe Biden’s fault. Biden came into office with a gift. The previous administration labored ceaselessly and effectively to […]

Democratic politicians at every level, from President-elect Joe Biden down to local city councilmen, reacted to recent incidents of police misconduct by hastily encouraging or even joining in calls to “defund the police.” But they rapidly realized they had made a grave mistake — that their spineless pandering to the woke mob might for once […]

A leaked phone call between President Trump and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger has sparked a “cacophony” of charges by Democrats eager to put the president on trial again. Democratic Reps. Ted Lieu of California and Kathleen Rice of New York urged FBI Director Christopher Wray to open a criminal investigation into Trump, while […]