It’s been a few winters since gas prices were at the top of Americans’ list of concerns. But the pain many of us are feeling at the pump—and the drastic increase in home heating costs expected this winter—has changed public sentiment on energy policy. Unfortunately, the Biden administration is pointing the finger in all the...
What’s the answer to poverty? I believe it’s opportunity—and hope. I grew up in South Houston, Texas, an urban area of Houston in the 1980s and ‘90s. I lived in a lower-income, single-mother, two-child household. My mostly absent father was on disability due to epilepsy. I had opportunities to attend private school, public school, and...
Texas’ 2021 legislative season overflowed into three special sessions and was full of high-impact politics and policymaking. Yet hidden under the headlines was Senate Bill 1336, a bill that sets the stage for Texas’ bright fiscal future. The bill might not have made the biggest splash in 2021, but its ripples of positive impact will...
The year 2021 saw the new administration in Washington unleash a historic crisis along America’s southern border with grave repercussions for the entire nation. Through a series of deliberate decisions that simultaneously enabled massive abuse of the US asylum system and sharply curtailed federal immigration law enforcement, in practically no time the Biden-Harris administration created...
We are writing resumés backwards. Whenever I have to update my own C.V., I always notice that the things at the of top the list—recent employment, graduate degrees—have not defined me nearly so much as the thing which is at the bottom: a little classical Christian grade school called Good Shepherd in Tyler, Texas. It...
GE’s new Haliade-X offshore wind turbine is enormous—each blade is longer than a football field. It’s nearly three football fields in height. Its imprint on the seabed is likewise gigantic, and not merely because of the concrete base that anchors it. Miles and miles of transmission lines must be buried then covered over in debris....
Haley Wade had forgotten all about Founders Classical Academy when her family received the call; after all, she’d been on a waiting list for seven years. But when spots opened up for her and her sister, she was ready. After completing eighth grade at a local middle school in Leander, Texas, Haley was academically inclined...
The White House has predicted that inflation is about to come down from its 39-year high, and it might be right, but not because of anything President Joe Biden has done. Rather, it will be nothing more than a mathematical coincidence — and Americans should not expect any relief. The U.S. Department of Labor’s consumer...
New York City hauled the 884-pound statue of Thomas Jefferson out of City Hall recently because city leaders said the statue “shouldn’t exist” and that Jefferson should be forgotten. I can understand New York progressives forgetting that Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence but it is surprising that they don’t remember that this Founding Father...
Tom Williams is silent as his son Aaron talks about fishing in the waters off Rhode Island—something Aaron has done his whole life, from helping his father to captaining his own trawler. It’s a tradition he now thinks about passing down to his children. “I remember my dad griping about the cold northeast wind,” Aaron...
The Texas Model of relatively less spending, no personal income tax, and sensible regulation continues to support improved economic freedom with more opportunities to flourish. But there’s room for improvement for the state recently ranked as the fourth most free nationwide. Canada’s Fraser Institute recently released the Economic Freedom of North America 2021 report that...
An electric co-op serving over 360,000 households across Central Texas is under fire for restructuring its solar customers’ rates. But without the change, all Pedernales Electric Cooperative (PEC) customers face higher bills in order to subsidize the few who choose to install solar panels on their homes. With prices for home heating, gasoline, and most...