Mitch Kokai

Philip Klein of the Washington Examiner considers billionaire Tom Steyer’s entry into the 2020 presidential contest. Candidates typically run for president either because they can win or because they want to draw attention to a given set of issues. Then there’s Tom Steyer. The liberal activist and megadonor…

Brent Scher of the Washington Free Beacon highlights an inconvenient truth for Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. Sen. Kamala Harris (D., Calif.) is the descendant of an Irishman who owned a slave plantation in Jamaica, according to her father’s lengthy ancestral summary of his side of the family.

Chris White of the Daily Caller reports on a new investigation from the Federal Communications Commission. A commissioner with the Federal Communications Commission wants to know why two liberal nonprofit groups are using revenue from a federal program designed to give poor children internet access on various progressive…

James Sutton writes for National Review Online about Pennsylvania’s approach to occupational licensing reform. Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf has taken steps toward making it easier for low-skilled workers to enter the job market, releasing a proposal to eliminate state licensing for 13 jobs and streamline the process overall.

Rich Lowry of National Review Online takes aim at the argument that victorious American women’s soccer players deserve more money. The team’s lawsuit alleging pay discrimination against the U.S. Soccer Federation has done much to define its identity. A nearly perfect run through the World Cup has been…

Julie Havlak and Lindsay Marchello report for Carolina Journal Online on a stopgap spending measure that cleared the N.C. House Wednesday. The Daily Journal focuses on the partisan divide surrounding a pay-as-you-go plan for statewide school construction.

John Locke Foundation Senior Vice President Becki Gray testified today in the N.C. House Judiciary Committee in support of ideas in Senate Bill 584, which would lead to positive criminal law reforms. Click here to listen to Gray’s comments.

Anthony Hennen of the Martin Center devotes a column to a new tool in the fight against college campus craziness. Inane occurrences on college campuses tend to parachute into national news headlines every week or two. Those glimpses, however, cannot do justice to the reality of the collegiate atmosphere.