In the eight months since inauguration, the Biden administration has been hard at work frantically unraveling President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies. Amid the flurry of executive fiats and new agency rules, President Joe Biden’s ban on solar panel materials from certain Chinese companies is the first move we’ve seen that doesn’t put America dead...
Officials called the myriad of government measures over the last 18 months, supposedly to deal with the pandemic, “temporary,” but that qualifier may no longer apply. As evidence, look no further than the recent extension of the student loan repayment moratorium. Thanks to the freeze on federal student loan payments and other costly government handouts,...
In 1983, the National Commission of Excellence in Education issued a report— “A Nation at Risk”— which claimed that U.S. schools were failing. In response, schools increased their focus on STEM classes, standardized testing, and enrollment of students in college. As a direct result, in 1994 75% of high school seniors in the U.S. enrolled...
Even as educrats continue to tell us critical race theory isn’t taught in K-12 classrooms, two news stories from different parts of the country demonstrate that this divisive and destructive philosophy is already undermining the educations of far too many U.S. children. In Atlanta, a Black mother was horrified to learn her daughter was shunted...
Let’s call it the Salton Principle: Renaming a product may make marketing easier, but it doesn’t fundamentally change the product. Who would buy a Salton Grill? We didn’t—and neither did you. But when it was rebranded as the George Foreman Lean Mean Fat-Reducing Grilling Machine, the little countertop grill showed up in homes (and dorm...
With the unfounded claims of Texas Democrats growing more and more bizarre, it’s time to set the record straight on Senate Bill 1—legislation that will make it easier to vote, but harder to cheat in Texas. I’m proud to have helped lead the effort to restore confidence in our election system. And that’s what SB...
Republicans in Washington may not have much credibility in criticizing the profligacy of congressional Democrats and the Biden administration, given how much the federal debt increased when the GOP was in power. Yet, in a moment that calls for responsible budgeting at every level of government, Republicans who hold power in many state capitals across the country do. That’s...
President Joe Biden followed his raft of heavy-handed climate executive orders by announcing his loftiest goal yet: slashing U.S. carbon dioxide emissions in half by the end of the decade. Biden’s ambitious climate fantasy is doomed to fail—not only failing to reach his emissions target but also failing utterly to have the slightest effect on climate change. The best solution...
When the novel coronavirus first began to spread, the news was abuzz with predictions of mass infections overwhelming hospitals, and dizzying death tolls. We were told COVID-19 would kill millions in the United States alone, with carnage rivaling post-apocalyptic pandemic blockbusters, and dying patients would be left on the streets. We hoarded toilet paper and canned goods...
You’d think the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) would know better than to mess with Texas. But a planned wind turbine facility in West Texas owned by a Chinese entity with links to the CCP exposes just how vulnerable our electric grid is to national and cybersecurity threats. Legislation filed in Texas to ban power plants owned by hostile nations...
If the gas shortages plaguing the Southeast left you high and dry last week, then buckle up. This is just a taste of our future under President Joe Biden’s energy policies. Though these shortages were largely driven by panic buying rather than actual supply constraints due to the Colonial Pipeline hack, they demonstrate just how much energy—something the average...
Is a criminal conspiracy going on in plain sight? Major banks and investment firms are conspiring with radical environmentalists to deny lending and investments to fossil fuel companies—jeopardizing our economy, energy future, and the rule of law. A new white paper from Ambassador C. Boyden Grey for the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Life:Powered project exposes, for the...