Good morning from Washington, where House Republicans say they’re determined to find out how COVID-19 occurred. Bob Moffit offers seven questions to help secure answers. Woke messes up everything it touches, Victor Davis Hanson writes. On the podcast, parental rights activist Ian Prior has tips on countering the trans agenda in schools. Plus: Tyler O’Neil spots an SPLC lawyer among those charged in an anti-police riot; Erin Dwinell checks how Texas is doing during the border crisis; and Simon Hankinson exposes the problems with visas for foreign tech workers. One hundred years ago, The New Republic publishes Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” which will go on to introduce millions of Americans to poetry.
Congress must not only determine what federal officials knew, and when they knew what they knew, but also correct any deficiencies in America’s response to prepare for the next public health crisis.
A Southern Poverty Law Center attorney was arrested on terrorism charges, with police saying he took part in a violent riot where agitators threw rocks and Molotov cocktails at police.
When the federal government fails to do its job securing our nation, states are left to single-handedly prevent illegal immigration and protect their own borders—often at an incredibly high cost.
America First Legal filed a lawsuit demanding documents from the Food and Drug Administration regarding the off-label use of so-called puberty blockers and other hormone drugs.
A former White House communications staffer discusses the Department of Energy report lending credence to the theory that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology.