The blessings and bumbles of DOGE

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March 18, 2025

The blessings and bumbles of DOGE

As the Democratic Party struggles to find a coherent message and flounders in the abyss that voters condemned it to after the 2024 election, the party has made one unified decision: make Elon Musk its primary villain. And there is some indication that doing so is a good idea, politically speaking. It is hard to […]

Colleges are finally on watch for ignoring federal law

For the first time in a long time, the federal government is standing with the public, including one often overlooked group — college students. For too long, college students have had to endure policies that directly threaten their rights and academic freedom, from diversity, equity, and inclusion policies to sanctions on free speech. Now is the […]

Trump is right: The Department of Education must go

It is past time to admit that the Education Department has produced a terrible return on America’s investment. Since its creation in 1980, test scores have dropped, with math and reading scores falling to their lowest levels in decades under former President Joe Biden. Civics knowledge is abysmal, as evidenced by middle school U.S. history […]

It’s time to wind down the Department of Education

Of all the things the federal government does that it shouldn’t, education policy is near the top of the list. Education is, and always has been, a state and local responsibility. Yet for decades, Washington, D.C., has taken an outsize role in telling states how to educate their children — often with disappointing results. If […]

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