American History

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered lawmakers back to work for a second special session after they failed to pass legislation to reduce property taxes. “I called another special session to deliver on our promise to provide the largest property tax cut in Texas history. Hardworking Texans deserve lasting property tax cuts. When the House Senate come to an agreement send...

Ron DeSantis said if he’s elected president, he’ll look to eliminate four major federal agencies. And he’s got a Plan B if he can’t get rid of them. In an interview with DeSantis on June 28, Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum asked the Florida governor, “Are you in favor of eliminating any agencies? I know conservatives in the past have...

Commentary A couple of months ago, I wrote about various ways that both existing policies and proposed policies hurt a certain number of American citizens. Sometimes the hurt was by design; other times, an unavoidable consequence of the policy. Question: Are government policies that make citizens worse off justifiable? Is it naïve to hope for a government that has, as...

AP Images Kristi Noem South Dakota landowners battling eminent-domain lawsuits are asking their governor, “Where are you?” Summit Carbon Solutions is proposing a 2,100-mile carbon-capture pipeline through the Great Plains, affecting hundreds of landowners in the Mount Rushmore State, among others. Capturing this carbon from ethanol plants in the Corn Belt is supposedly going to save Mother Earth from catastrophic...

alancrosthwaite/iStock/Getty Images Plus Let’s read Article V of the U.S. Constitution together, and I want you to pay attention to which groups are empowered to call for a Constitutional Convention and the purpose of the Convention, and what roles the groups play: The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution,...

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is still confident in the success of a referendum to change Australia’s Constitution despite new polling showing a drop in the public’s approval. This comes as advocacy groups prepare to launch thousands of “Yes” events across the country to encourage Australians to back the Indigenous Voice to Parliament. The Voice is an initiative by the Labor...

Commentary Allow me to explain why we have not seen a recession yet, despite the collapse in base money supply. We are witnessing the stealth nationalization of the economy. What does this mean? The entire burden of the monetary collapse and rate hikes is falling on the shoulders of families and small businesses, while large corporations and governments are virtually...

liveslow/iStock/Getty Images Plus The nation is celebrating a special anniversary today. One year ago, the United States Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, removing federal protections for abortion. SCOTUS handed down its decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization on June 24, 2022, ending Roe’s 50-year reign of murder. The ruling stated, “The Constitution does not confer a right...

Even after being indicted in two separate criminal cases, former President Donald Trump has maintained a commanding lead over his Republican rivals in national polls of registered voters. But those same polls are showing that if Trump were to run head-to-head against the presumed 2024 Democratic nominee, President Joe Biden, the two candidates would be in a statistical dead heat....

Former FDIC chair says regulators had all the power they needed to spot, solve regional bank problems In the wake of the failure of several regional banks, lawmakers are furiously at work drafting new bills to give regulatory authorities more control over banks. But some experts say that bank regulators already had all the power they needed, but failed to...

inhauscreative/iStock/Getty Images Plus The men of the greatest purity of intention may be made instruments of despotism in the hands of the artful and designing. — Centinel I, Philadelphia Independent Gazetteer, 5 October 1787 Under normal circumstances, I would be inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to someone quoting the Founding Fathers out of context, or contorting the...

Jesse Collins/Wikimedia Commons A week from today the Supreme Court will issue its ruling in a long-pending case that could dramatically impact the 2024 elections: Moore v. Harper. At issue is a deceptively simple question: Does the Constitution give power to state legislatures to regulate federal elections, or doesn’t it? In Article I, Section 4, Clause 1, the U.S. Constitution...

Commentary According to Aldous Huxley, the tyrant of the future will use drugs and propaganda to convince the individual to “love his slavery.” In a 1958 interview with Mike Wallace, Huxley explained as follows: “You have to get the consent of the ruled. And this they will do partly by drugs, as I foresaw in ‘Brave New World,’ and partly...

arinahabich/iStock/Getty Images Plus Anti-gun zealots populating Illinois’ legislative bodies passed a bill into law in January called the “Protect Illinois Communities Act,” or PICA. It was passed despite the clear ruling from the Supreme Court in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen that the Second Amendment may only be contravened when a state can show that...

Movie star and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has once again compared the Jan. 6 capital breach to Kristallnacht, the attack on the Jewish people that ultimately led to the Holocaust. Schwarzenegger’s comments came Friday during an episode of CNN’s Who’s Talking to Chris Wallace, when he defended his previous opinion that the two events were similar in that they...

filo/iStock/Getty Images Plus The newest federal holiday, “Juneteenth,” is observed this year on the actual date of June Nineteenth — Juneteenth being the combination of those two words. As with most federal holidays, in order to give federal employees a three-day weekend, it would have been observed on Monday anyway. So, what is Juneteenth all about? When I first heard...

This post appeared on the front page as a direct link to the original article with the above image and quotation. About this publication A specialist in American studies, Lalatendu Das has worked in various capacities for more than two decades with several institutions and organizations in India and abroad, including some leading US-based groups. He has taught courses in...

mscornelius/iStock/Getty Images Plus A blog post entitled “Convention of States supporters from the Founders and beyond,” written in 2021 by Gregory Kipp, includes statements made by George Mason, George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton. The title of the post would lead a reader to believe that the quotations selected from these Founding Fathers proved that they supported...

mj0007/iStock/Getty Images Plus Recent revelations of Justice Clarence Thomas’ failure to disclose financial transactions have fueled a growing demand for Congress to introduce new ethical standards for the Supreme Court. This has ignited a spirited debate over whether the legislative branch possesses the constitutional authority to impose a code of conduct on the judiciary. As with any analysis of whether...

The Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that federal bankruptcy law supersedes Indian tribes’ sovereign immunity. An Indian tribe in Wisconsin had argued it could not be sued and that bankruptcy protections, such as the law’s automatic stay of collection efforts when an individual files for bankruptcy, did not operate to block its efforts to seek repayment of a debt from a...