Trump’s war on woke runs into the First Amendment

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July 23, 2025

Trump’s war on woke runs into the First Amendment

Whether it’s axing the beloved Aunt Jemima from the syrup bottle or removing the Native American woman from the butter tin, the renaming and erasing of “problematic” logos may, in hindsight, be the most vapid, performative, and ultimately useless of all the 2020-era woke excesses. This same culture revolution came for the National Football League, […]

To fix America’s visa crisis, shrink the system and restore integrity

When President Donald Trump returned to power earlier this year, he inherited an immigration system stretched beyond its limits in every conceivable way. At the heart of this crisis lies a glaring double standard. When migrants enter the country, it’s all about the quantity of decisions — admitting more people, faster — rather than the […]

Chevron’s conduct is not consistent with Trump’s agenda

Here are two truths: Louisiana is an unapologetically pro-energy state, and President Donald Trump isn’t easily fooled. Taken together, those facts underscore the desperate absurdity of accusations that Louisiana’s efforts to hold energy giant Chevron accountable for its decadeslong pollution of our state’s coastal wetlands are somehow inconsistent with the president’s energy independence agenda. For […]

NPR and PBS brought defunding on themselves

As the broadcasters’ defenders say, the defunding of public media represents a “drop in the bucket” of what must be done to reach fiscal sanity. But it also needs to be noted that by cutting NPR and PBS off taxpayer funding, President Donald Trump accomplished a feat of historic proportions. Every Republican president and Congress […]

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