American History

PeopleImages/iStock/Getty Images Plus A Catholic couple is suing the state of Massachusetts for denying their application to become foster, and potentially adoptive, parents because of their views on sexuality and gender. Represented by the nonprofit public-interest legal firm Becket, Mike and Kitty Burke of Southampton filed a lawsuit in federal district court Tuesday alleging that the Massachusetts Department of Children...

Yes, the indictment of Donald Trump is important. However, he and his supporters worldwide have long since succeeded in undermining state institutions. It is the third indictment filed against former President Donald Trump — and the most significant. Not only because a conviction on conspiracy charges would come with a heavier sentence than conviction of concealing hush money payments, charges...

SDI Productions/iStock/Getty Images Plus The Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) filed a lawsuit last week on behalf of two doctors and the nonprofit Do No Harm, challenging California’s mandatory “implicit bias” training for physicians, which requires them to accept leftist political and racial indoctrination to continue practicing medicine.  The California Legislature enacted Assembly Bill 241 with the full support of Governor Gavin...

Judge Aileen Cannon Mainstream media outlets are pointing out errors made in a prior case by the federal judge who is presiding in Donald Trump’s classified documents case — errors that they argue may have invalidated that earlier case. But is the media’s concern for the judge’s past performance sincere, or is there an agenda behind it? The judge in...

mphillips007/iStock/Getty Images Plus “It’s been half a century since Congress last proposed a successful amendment. Could an Article V convention similarly usher in a new era of progressive reform?” asks John F. Kowal, the author of a recent Newsweek opinion piece. “A growing number of progressive scholars and reformers are asking whether it’s wise to take the convention option off...

izusek/iStock/Getty Images Plus Teachers and staff at a Tennessee government-school district were taught that Christians, heterosexuals, men, “cisgender” people, and descendants of Europeans have “privilege” while women, pagans, “people of color,” “polyamorous” people, and homosexuals are supposedly oppressed. The scandalous Marxist-style training is causing outrage across Tennessee and nationwide. According to a copy of the “cultural competence” training presentation first...

scottlitt/iStock/Getty Images Plus In its ruling to suspend enforcement of ATF’s pistol brace rule for 60 days, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on Tuesday required the lower court to look more carefully at all the facts and then issue a decision on the matter. The appeals court strongly suggested that, based on the information it had,...

designer491/iStock/Getty Images Plus Members of the Massachusetts General Court are seeking to enact what would be the most restrictive and tyrannical gun-control law in the United States. House Docket No. 4420 (H.D. 4420) is euphemistically titled “An Act modernizing firearm laws.” However, if enacted, it would severely and unconstitutionally restrict citizens’ God-given right to self-defense. H.D. 4420 is 142 pages...

The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that taking race into consideration in the college admissions process is unconstitutional, breaking with 45 years of legal precedent. Inevitably, there are concerns about whether diversity will suffer and deepen social division. Affirmative action, which involved taking proactive, corrective measures to support the social advancement of racial minorities such as Black, Latino (from Central...

xavierarnau/iStock/Getty Images Plus It took a strong letter using strong language giving the Greenfield (Massachusetts) School Committee a “drop-dead date or we sue all of its members” ultimatum to force it to do what it should have done in the first place: approve the curriculum of a newly formed private school in Greenfield, Massachusetts. At issue was the curriculum that...

flickr.com Wayne Allen Root We have this never-ending debate in America and especially in Washington, D.C., about what works: Left or Right, liberalism or conservatism, capitalism or socialism. Well, there’s no need to debate anymore. The answer is in. We won! Yes, the debate is over. All the stats are in from a hundred directions. “The Great American Divorce” I’ve...

AP Images Vivek Ramaswamy Businessman and 2024 GOP presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy is the “number one opponent” of the World Economic Forum (WEF) and its Great Reset agenda in the United States, the candidate said in an interview with The New American magazine. He also argued that there were “good reasons to exit” the United Nations. Speaking with this writer...

AP Images Adam Schiff “Stirred to fury and swayed by passion in all their counsels … the government will change its name to the finest sounding of all: free democracy; but will change its nature to the worst thing of all: mob-rule.” — Polybius, Histories, Book VIII Representative Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has reintroduced the “Protecting Our Democracy Act,” an initiative...

AP Images Jim Jordan House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) once again has raised the very serious question of whether the Biden administration worked with Facebook to identify and censor Americans who used the social-media platform to express their opposition to Joe Biden. “Never-before-released internal documents subpoenaed by the Judiciary Committee PROVE that Facebook and Instagram censored posts and...

LeoPatrizi/iStock/Getty Images Plus As Congress continues to consider whether to re-authorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), there are several critical parts of that provision that deserve to be brought to the attention of the American people whose lives are directly impacted by the surveillance programs that section has been used to create. As a reminder, Section...

Oleksii Liskonih/iStock/Getty Images Plus In a victory for the U.S. Constitution, Oregon has rescinded all its applications for an Article V Constitutional Convention, or Con-Con. On July 18, Governor Tina Kotek signed House Bill 2625 (H.B. 3625) into law. The bill had previously passed the House by a 33-16 vote, and the Senate by a 25-0 vote. H.B. 3625, once...

Bet_Noire/iStock/Getty Images Plus On this day, July 26, in 1787, the delegates at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia agreed to the following method of electing the president of the United States: He would be chosen by Congress; He would serve a term of seven years; and He would be ineligible for re-election That’s right. That’s the method of electing the...

Mohamed Rasik/iStock/Getty Images Plus If you’re in Michigan, consider this your notice that the Second Amendment does not apply in “sensitive places” within your state. The Michigan Court of Appeals recently held that the University of Michigan (UM) campus — and all other schools in the state — is exempt from the protections of the Second Amendment regarding keeping and...

Three hundred years ago today, the final installment of Cato’s Letters was published in London. It was Number 138 and was one of the few of that collection co-authored by John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon.  For those of you unfamiliar with those names, I direct you to this article I wrote regarding their incalculable contribution to the founding of the...

The left wants all future elections to look just like they did in 2020, and we have the blueprints to prove it. Covid-19 was the excuse Democrats used to radically transform our nation’s election systems in ways that make them less secure, less fair, and more vulnerable to mischief. Virtually all of the “temporary” changes introduced—ever-earlier voting, mass mail-in balloting,...