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Rural hospitals receive only 1.3% of Medicaid spending and were largely exempt from cuts to the program in the One Big B...
07/21/2025

Rural hospitals receive only 1.3% of Medicaid spending and were largely exempt from cuts to the program in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. But thanks to a new $50 billion grant program, these facilities might almost double their annual Medicaid revenues. Read more from Chris Pope:

Lobbyists for rural hospitals should expect big bonuses this year. These hospitals receive only 1.3 percent of Medicaid spending and were largely exempt from cuts to the program in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act. But thanks to a new $50 billion grant program, these facilities might almost double the...

New Yorkers shouldn’t be fooled by activists’ efforts to present the anti-Israel cause as mainstream, Yael Bar Tur write...
07/21/2025

New Yorkers shouldn’t be fooled by activists’ efforts to present the anti-Israel cause as mainstream, Yael Bar Tur writes. Just because a certain view dominates our social media feeds—or certain political circles—doesn’t mean it’s popular.

Despite the rise in hate crimes, not everyone wants to “normalize the Intifada.”

Anti-American sentiment is becoming normalized, especially in elite spaces. Politicians, educators, and influencers incr...
07/19/2025

Anti-American sentiment is becoming normalized, especially in elite spaces. Politicians, educators, and influencers increasingly treat patriotism as a liability, not a virtue, Samuel J. Abrams writes.

A country whose citizens no longer believe in its core goodness will struggle to sustain itself.

Trash-strewn streets, loud music in public, brazen shoplifting, rising disorder, and a general decline in civility are b...
07/19/2025

Trash-strewn streets, loud music in public, brazen shoplifting, rising disorder, and a general decline in civility are becoming common in major U.S. cities, Daniel Di Martino writes.

A growing culture of Third Worldism—the belief that you’re entitled to use public spaces without any responsibility to care for them—is corroding civic life in cities.

The National Science Foundation has funded so-called diversity checkpoints in faculty hiring, whereby university adminis...
07/18/2025

The National Science Foundation has funded so-called diversity checkpoints in faculty hiring, whereby university administrators delay or cancel searches when they deem the applicant pool insufficiently diverse. Read more from John D. Sailer:

The National Science Foundation has funded so-called diversity checkpoints in faculty hiring.

The New York State Legislature passed a measure requiring the MTA to staff all subway trains with two personnel: a train...
07/18/2025

The New York State Legislature passed a measure requiring the MTA to staff all subway trains with two personnel: a train operator and a conductor. If enacted, it would benefit the city’s powerful transit-worker unions, while undermining the MTA’s efforts to boost efficiency. Read more from Paul Dreyer:

A union-backed bill to prohibit one-person train operation threatens to derail cost-cutting efforts.

The Trump administration appears to be revving up its deregulatory agenda. Jarrett Dieterle unpacks two recent SEC moves...
07/17/2025

The Trump administration appears to be revving up its deregulatory agenda. Jarrett Dieterle unpacks two recent SEC moves:

After a quiet start, the SEC is rolling back Biden-era rules on ESG investing and corporate shareholder activism.

Over the past half-century, universities have gradually discarded their founding principles and burned down their accumu...
07/17/2025

Over the past half-century, universities have gradually discarded their founding principles and burned down their accumulated prestige, all in pursuit of ideologies that corrupt knowledge and point the nation toward nihilism, Christopher F. Rufo writes.

A group of academics, intellectuals, and civic leaders call on the president to advance these principles for reform of our universities.

The Trevor Project was once considered a lifeline for gay teens facing bullying or isolation. But it has drifted from it...
07/17/2025

The Trevor Project was once considered a lifeline for gay teens facing bullying or isolation. But it has drifted from its original purpose and transformed into a vehicle for advancing radical and harmful ideologies. Read more from Colin Wright and Brad Polumbo:

The organization has peddled pseudoscience to vulnerable kids.

Bans on AI in the classroom in the name of equity would blunt students’ development and might also increase academic ine...
07/17/2025

Bans on AI in the classroom in the name of equity would blunt students’ development and might also increase academic inequality. Sydney Flisser explains:

Schools shouldn’t let “equity” concerns prevent them from embracing artificial intelligence.

Larry Summers’s attacks on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Medicaid reforms are untethered from both the facts of the l...
07/16/2025

Larry Summers’s attacks on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Medicaid reforms are untethered from both the facts of the law and Medicaid’s recent history of rapid growth. Even by his own evidence, the proposed cuts are exceedingly mild. Read more from Judge G***k:

The former Treasury secretary oversaw a more “brutal” policy when he was in government.

President Trump should focus federal law enforcement on shutting down open-air drug markets in places like the Tenderloi...
07/16/2025

President Trump should focus federal law enforcement on shutting down open-air drug markets in places like the Tenderloin and Skid Row, which have become magnets for crime and chaos, Christopher F. Rufo writes.

The Tenderloin in San Francisco, Skid Row in Los Angeles, and Kensington in Philadelphia have become magnets for crime and chaos.

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