Plus: 19 ‘Freedom-Loving States’ Form Anti-ESG Alliance
March 17 2023
Happy St. Patrick’s Day from Washington, where the Biden administration doesn’t want to answer for the ease with which cartels bring drugs and humans into the country. Our Virginia Allen visits a popular smuggling route with an Arizona lawman. Nineteen states team up to oppose ESG investment standards, Samantha Aschieris reports. On the podcast, what a former State Department official wants to know about the Chinese social media app TikTok. Plus: how “restorative justice” ruins public schools; the resurgent Russia-China alliance; bailing out woke financial institutions, and an underrated Founding Father. On this date in 1969, Kyiv-born and Wisconsin-reared Golda Meir, 70, is elected as Israel’s fourth—and so far only female—prime minister.
Over a three-hour ride-along to visit two primary smuggling routes in the desert, a sheriff’s lieutenant explains how the drug cartels operate and why they’re thriving under President Biden.
Governors pledge to “leverage our state pension funds” to ensure corporations “are focused on maximizing shareholder value, rather than the proliferation of woke ideology.”
Fans of restorative justice see traditional methods of discipline as utterly barbaric and suggest that punishing a student for bad actions sets him on an unshakable path toward prison.
Keith Krach, who was undersecretary of state under President Trump, lays out questions he would ask TikTok’s CEO regarding China and the security of Americans’ personal data.
James Madison doesn't have a musical written about him. He doesn’t have an HBO series. But he is one of the most important Founding Fathers in U.S. history.
While China is providing Russia with lethal aid to support its aggression in Ukraine, the story gets worse: Russia is supporting China’s nuclear buildup.
It’s feeling like 2007 all over again as Silicon Valley Bank and other financial institutions are going belly up and asking for bailouts from the federal government.
