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For over a year, the national news media has held up the CDC and its director, Rochelle Walensky, as paragons of public health. It’s no... Read More

The Big Insight: Voter fraud in the U.S. is rare, but when it happens, “ballot harvesting” is a likely culprit. No... Read More

Over the course of many years and many think pieces, the case against the filibuster has been laid out. Typically, critics of the Jim Crow... Read More

It can no longer be denied that China is at war against the United States. In a recent speech to the Chinese Communist Party leadership, Xi... Read More

As the Omicron variant rages across the U.S., some students are expressing frustration and worry over being forced back into classrooms with... Read More

You’d be hard-pressed to find someone under the belief that the American healthcare system is operating functionally. No matter what... Read More

When the facts don’t work, try appeals to national or “homeland” security. That seems to be the tactic of the Jones Act... Read More

There’s a moment in Delta Airlines’ new pandemic-era pre-flight video that depicts how to stay masked while drinking. If... Read More

resident Biden was warned. Back in February 2021, as Congress debated the $2 trillion American Rescue Plan, former Treasury secretary... Read More

The dining room at Juniper Bar and Restaurant in Burlington is about as bespoke as one would expect from a woodsy Vermont establishment.... Read More

Gov. Kim Reynolds in her Condition of the State address outlined a bold, conservative, and pro-growth policy agenda that places Iowa... Read More

The rise of “action civics,” which prioritizes political activism over basic civic knowledge, is proof that a good civics... Read More

With Russia’s recent aggression towards its neighbor Ukraine, one might think the US would be investing in methods of containment to... Read More

Stacey Abrams and I have a lot in common. We’re both proud Southerners. We both hail from the only two states with schools that beat... Read More

We bemoan autocracies in Latin America, the Middle East, Africa, Russia and China but largely ignore the more subtle authoritarian trend in... Read More

Not long ago, the idea of another American Civil War seemed outlandish. These days, the notion has not only gone mainstream, it seems to... Read More

Who in their right mind would continue to spend $1 billion annually for a failing product? Two Los Angeles city councilmembers—Joe... Read More

During the holiday week, I spent a frigid afternoon standing in a long line outside the local library to pick up a rapid COVID test. Lines... Read More

It’s not public what Dr. Fauci’s salary was last year or this year. (The latest published salary is from FY2020.) It’s not... Read More

Regular readers of Quillette may recall my 2018 article “Why Women Don’t Code,” which led to another describing how I was... Read More

Last week, the Supreme Court heard arguments over whether it should stay OSHA’s mandate for large employers, which went into effect on... Read More

Lucía Obregón Matzer remembers crying every day and calling her mom and telling her the stories she was hearing. She was in her... Read More

Inflation jumped at its fastest pace in nearly 40 years last month, a 7% spike from a year earlier that is increasing household expenses,... Read More

Ivan Illich’s star once burned brightly. From the late sixties through the mid-seventies—when his influence was... Read More

Construction on the Hart Senate Office Building began in January 1975. A June 1972 estimate put construction costs at $48 million. But, when... Read More