Plus: What You Need to Know About Israel-Hamas Conflict
May 19 2021
Good morning from Washington, where House conservatives are filing legislation to prevent the government from encouraging children and service members to judge others based on skin color. Our Fred Lucas reports. Wonder why Hamas is firing rockets at Israel? On the podcast, Middle East expert Jim Phillips has the lowdown. Plus: Biden undoes a key Trump reform in criminal justice; UC errs by dumping the SAT; China lands on Mars; and woke organizations attack the system that built them. On this date in 1864, President Abraham Lincoln writes to an anti-slavery congressional leader, Sen. Charles Sumner, R-Mass., proposing that the government give widows and children of soldiers equal treatment regardless of race.
Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, introduces two measures in response to the Biden administration’s proposed rule to fund education based on the teaching of critical race theory.
What led to the latest conflict between Israel and Hamas? What should the U.S. do? What’s behind the civilian deaths? Heritage Foundation researcher Jim Phillips addresses these questions and more.
President Biden has moved at breakneck speed to undo every policy of his predecessor that he can, but he seems not to be giving any thought to whether the underlying policy is good.
Immigrant families, with few U.S. connections, are doing all they can to ensure the future of their children. Standardized tests can help put their kids on a path to upward economic mobility.