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1 week ago | 
americanthinker.com | Lewis Andrews
In less than three years universal school choice policies have been adopted by 14 states, all Republican leaning.
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1 month ago | 
lawliberty.org | Lewis Andrews |Jodi Bruhn |John Berlau |George Hawley
No matter how successfully Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) identify the waste in federal spending, their achievements will not be secure without a closer look at how Washington became so profligate in the first place.
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1 month ago | 
itv.com | Lewis Andrews
A father and husband from Jersey says it has been a "nightmare" covering the cost of his wife's death. Last year, Josh lost Leah - the mother of his three young children - to cancer when she was aged just 32. "You don't expect to lose someone at that age to pass away, so you don't put those kinds of plans in place," Josh explains. In a particularly emotional moment, Josh says: "She did everything for our children. The day of my wife's passing was the hardest, so watching her pass away...
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1 month ago | 
spectator.org | Lewis Andrews
In 2007, Minnesota’s Saint Agnes School, located in central St. Paul, was on the verge of default. With rapidly declining enrollment, an institution which for more than a century had been considered a cornerstone of Catholic primary and secondary education, was now struggling just to keep its doors open. In other words, a classical education is available to the children of almost any family willing to pursue it.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
spectator.org | Lewis Andrews
Until recently, the biggest challenge facing education reformers was persuading local politicians in states with powerful teacher unions to legalize what has come to be known as “school choice” — the public subsidy of multiple K-12th grade learning options. For while Americans have always had the legal right to educate their children outside the local public school, the cost of doing so at a private or parochial facility has effectively limited that freedom to more affluent families.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Lewis Andrews
Culture
The Counterintuitive Reason Legacy Media Leans Left
Economics rather than ideology drives the bias of the press.
The left-wing bias of the mainstream media may have been more evident in the recent election than ever before, but its existence has long been recognized, even admitted by the media’s own journalists.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
theamericanconservative.com | Lewis Andrews |Spencer Neale
Culture
Churches Take Homeschooling in a Surprising Direction
A new generation of infrastructure met the Covid moment to catalyze alternatives to traditional schools.
It is hardly news that homeschooling has taken off around the country, especially since Covid. Over the last year alone, according to the Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey, the number of US homeschooled students has gone from 3.6 million to 4 million—an 11 percent increase.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Matthew Lynn |Lewis Andrews |Gavin Haynes
She didn’t have to slog around New Hampshire, there were no debates, and there were few opportunities for voters or journalists to ask Kamala Harris any questions. The Democratic nomination for President fell into her lap when it became painfully clear that Joe Biden was far too old and too unwell to run for a second term. That may turn out to be very lucky, at least for her. Later today (Friday), Harris will unveil her first new policy of the campaign. The trouble is this: it is completely idiotic.
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Aug 15, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Lewis Andrews |Nicholas Farrell |Paul F Kildea |Teresa Mull
By almost every historical indicator, the US is clearly approaching a debt crisis. The federal government’s aggregate liabilities now exceed its gross domestic product. The annual interest required to service federal obligations is greater than what Congress spends each year on defense. And projected annual deficits for the next decade are well ahead of estimated revenues by more than $2 trillion.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
thespectator.com | Olivia Potts |Lewis Andrews |Gavin Haynes |Amy Everett
Whenever I think of steak tartare, I can’t help but remember a heartbreaking passage in Nigel Slater’s memoir Toast. Slater, working at a French restaurant in a Midlands hotel as a young man, is desperate to try the steak Diane. He books a table there for himself and a date. In a moment of madness, he accidentally orders the steak tartare instead.
