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This week, President Trump temporarily defunding the World Health Organization over its failure to confront China over its deceptions or even do any work to confirm the information China was trying to spoon feed to the rest of the world.  On Thursday, President Trump laid out his three-phase plan to restart the U.S. economy.  It provides criteria for starting the three phases all the way up to a f...

In the 1970's the Equal Rights Amendment was on its way to swift ratification, when a woman named Phyllis Schlafly launched a grassroots effort to torpedo the amendment by showing women why they didn't want it. Wednesday night, F/X and Hulu are teaming up to present "Mrs. America," a multi-part examination of the battle over the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970's and 1980's.  Unsurprisingly, the...

On Friday, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam signed several gun control bills into law, and while he did not get his prized "assault weapons" ban, gun rights groups say second amendment rights in the commonwealth are greatly weakened by these new laws. The new legislation requires universal background checks, limits citizens to one firearm purchase per month, established "red flag" laws allowing police...

Concerns over the coronavirus have forced the postponement of several political primaries and Wisconsin recently served as the focal point of a bitter debate over in-person voting during a health crisis.  Many voting rights activists are now pushing hard for voting by mail to be an option for every voter come November, but some experts say that idea could lead to big problems with election integri...

On Thursday, the Labor Department announced 6.6 million people filed for first-time unemployment last week.  In the past three weeks, more than 16 million Americans lost their jobs. How much longer can our economy afford to be locked down?  How fast can it get up and running once it is restarted?  And what policies will be most helpful? Dr. Gary Wolfram teaches political economy at Hillsdale Colle...

Former federal prosecutor Andrew C. McCarthy explains why he thinks the creation of a special, 9/11-style commission to investigate the federal response to the coronavirus threat is a bad idea right now and why these commissions rarely live up to the hype.

Iran was one of the first nations afflicted with Coronavirus after it moved on from China, but the Iranian regime's callous indifference and calculated cruelty towards its own people could result in much bigger consequences than the virus might inflict. Alireza Jafarzadeh is deputy director of the National Council of Resistance of Iran.  He says the response to the virus has been nothing short of...

On Thursday, the Department of Labor reported more than 6.6 million people filed new jobless claims over the past week. Combined with the nearly 3.3 million from last week, more than 10 million people since our economy largely shut down due to the coronavirus. With the nation effectively on pause at least through April, what will the economic toll be over the next few weeks and how quickly can tho...

Time and time again, China lied about the severity of the coronavirus, how it started, and how many people died there.  Now, by all accounts, the communist rulers are lying about there being no new cases. Is there any question China is lying?  What does it gain from these deceptions when the lies are so obvious?  What does the poor Chinese response to the virus tell us abut the regime in general? ...

The debate over the federal response to the coronavirus threat has been raging for weeks but what goes into a response of this scope? How do the different agencies coordinate, how do the feds collaborate with the states, and how does the private sector partner with the government so seamlessly? Galen Institute President Grace-Marie Turner addresses these questions and more in this interview with R...

The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a $2 trillion coronavirus relief package Wednesday night and the House is expected to follow suit as soon as Friday. But in addition to the critical relief for families and businesses is a lot of spending that hardly seems relevant to the crisis at hand. For example, the legislation allots $250 million for the IRS, $350 for migration and refugee assistance, $75 m...

There's no crisis of prescription drug availability right now as the COVID-19 crisis unfolds, but as supply chains suffer some disruptions and China threatens to withhold medications produced there by U.S. pharmaceuticals, how can we make sure there's never a problem? Former FDA Associate Commissioner Peter Pitts says there is a way to induce much more domestic production of prescription drugs. In...

Partisan emotions are at a fevered pitch on Capitol Hill Monday, after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House Democrats would draft their own bill, effectively derailing bipartisan legislation in the Senate. On Monday, the GOP frustrations boiled over as details of the House bill emerged. Pelosi and her allies are looking to add many policy items to the bill that do not seem to have much r...

Coronavirus fears are driving the massive Wall Street sell-off, but turmoil in the oil market is also contributing to the instability. Even with demand falling due to the virus, Saudi Arabia is increasing production in order to drive prices down. Their goal is to drive American energy producers - particularly fracking shale producers out of business. So how dire is the financial condition for U.S....

For the past couple of weeks, Wall Street has looked like a roller coaster. And while there have been days of big gains, the Dow Jones has dropped more than 4,000 points as of Tuesday's close. Monday witnessed the worst losses since the 2008 financial crisis. Concerns over coronavirus are attracting the most attention but upheaval in the oil market and record-low yields in the bond market also hav...

The U.S. economy keeps humming along, boosted on Friday by much stronger February job growth than expected, but with the markets in turmoil over the coronavirus, what will the economic impact be in the weeks and months to come? On Friday, the Labor Department released the February jobs report, showing 273,000 new hires, nearly 100,000 more than Wall Street analysts anticipated.  Hiring was strong...

On Monday, Israeli voters went to the polls for the third time in less than a year to determine it's political leadership. After two election results that failed to result in a winner, voters this time seem more favorable to keeping Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Incomplete returns show Netanyahu's Likud Party winning the most seats. When factoring coalition partners, Netanyahu is within a sea...

Joe Biden scored a dominating win in Saturday's South Carolina primary. Less than 48 hours later, three rivals have dropped out and the endorsements are flooding in. So why are so many prominent Democrats coalescing around Biden after one win and three disappointing finishes? The immediate answer involves a huge number of delegates at stake tomorrow on Super Tuesday. But why Biden? For answers, we...

Coronavirus is making its way around the world.  It has government officials in the U.S. warning there might be disruptions in school calendars and work schedules due to its highly contagious nature.  Markets around the world spent most of the week in panic mode, as investors lost trillions in value in the U.S. alone. But is coronavirus, or COVID-19, really a menace that could kill thousands of Am...

Coronavirus fears have the markets badly spooked and some Americans wondering how it may impact their daily lives in the weeks to come. But as the Trump administration prepares to deal with the issue, what can we reasonably expect our government to do in a situation like this and what is beyond its control? How aggressive should it be in pressing China for accurate data? How tough is it for the fe...

The Democrats running for president disagree on quite a few things but all of them support Roe v. Wade and most seem to have little regard for pro-life members of their party. Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Pete Buttigieg have all indicated they are not interested in finding common ground with a group that makes up about 30 percent of the Democratic Party according to a recent Gallup survey...

In her new book, "Revolution," former Deputy National Security Adviser K.T. McFarland details how the FBI and the Mueller team hounded her, tried to trap her into a perjury charge, caused mental anguish, and put her family in financial distress all in hopes of incriminating figures in the Trump administration. Steeped in that traumatic experience, McFarland explains what it's like to be in the FBI...

As the Democratic presidential race looks ahead to the Nevada caucuses on Saturday, the South Carolina primary a week after that, and Super Tuesday just three days later, the fight for the nomination is quickly picking up momentum and rank and file Democrats are increasingly concerned that avowed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders is on track to become the party's standard bearer against President Trum...

In the coming days, the U.S. Senate will hold votes on two pieces of pro-life legislation. One would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The other would require doctors or abortion practitioners to provide medical care to any baby surviving an attempted abortion. Both bill will likely fail to attract 60 votes, which means they cannot proceed to a final vote. Even if they did, the legislatio...

Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg spent a lot of money in recent years to help elect a Democratic majority in the Virginia legislature with the expectation those new lawmakers would enact gun control legislation. Now that dream is coming true, and a leading gun rights organization is now looking to turn the Virginia primary into an electoral nightmare for Bloomberg's presidential ambiti...