Governor Nikki Haley has most recently been in the news stumping for Mitt Romney, but her book, Can’t Is Not an Option: My American Story, released last week, looks back at the ascent she has made on the national stage, and describes some of her …
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World Bank: Wrong Man for the Job
Last week, President Obama nominated Dartmouth president Jim Yong Kim to serve as the next president of the World Bank. (The United States de facto holds the World Bank’s presidency, while Europe gets the International Monetary Fund’s.) Jim…
HHS Messes with Texas
While opposition to the HHS mandate has caused many liberals to accuse Republicans of a “war on women,” the Obama administration itself has just declared the first front in its own war on women’s health care. Its casus belli? The Texa…
The Kochs and Cato
No one knows quite how the Koch brothers’ recent lawsuit to take shareholder control of the Cato Institute will end, but it seems fair to say that it will seriously wound both parties, and thus, the libertarian cause.
Charles Koch founded Cato in…
Obama’s Infanticide Votes
In last Wednesday’s debate, when the Republican candidates were asked about their positions on birth control, Newt Gingrich parried with one of his usual tactics, a fusillade against the mainstream media. He told CNN’s John King, “You…
Obama’s Education Priorities
In contrast to his more partisan and ideological policies, President Obama has been lauded for his bipartisan work on education, in which he has a supposedly unflinching commitment to evidence-based reform — “what works.” But in his 2…
Obama’s Education Priorities
In contrast to his more partisan and ideological policies, President Obama has been lauded for his bipartisan work on education, in which he has a supposedly unflinching commitment to evidence-based reform — “what works.” But in his 2…
Do You Know Newt?
Newt Gingrich may have a long legacy of activism on the right, but he has also enthusiastically endorsed a wide range of dubiously conservative positions over the years. In fact, it can occasionally be hard to distinguish his suggestions and views fr…