For decades, American trade policy rested on an assumption that proved costly: that lowering barriers would naturally produce fairness, stability, and shared prosperity. Instead, the United States absorbed the downside of openness while many trading partners protected their own industries, subsidized exports, and exploited access to the American market. The result was dependency, not dividends.
The Left’s relentless campaign of woke lawfare has been on my mind recently. As I wrote this fall in these very pages, “we are in the midst of a wave of lawfare against anything that resists the Left: the Trump Administration, industries that have refused to bend the knee to progressive policy preferences, and individuals who dare disagree or speak up against the Left’s worldview.”
The public release of FBI emails by Senate Judiciary Chairman Senator Chuck Grassley about China interference in American elections answers the question people have asked for five years – was the 2020 election free of foreign interference?
Technological advancement has offered society many educational and social benefits, but it has also created new challenges that require parents and policymakers to take commonsense steps to protect kids from harm.
Pharmaceutical company executives have been courting President Trump trying to convince him to protect their industry and to continue the cozy relationship between Big Pharma and the government. But Americans voted for change and transparency. With ever-increasing drug prices and decreasing health outcomes, drugmakers’ practices are failing the American public. It’s time for the U.S. government to take a hard stand and hold these corporations accountable.
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Effective and firm leadership also entails acknowledging when a policy must be adjusted to reflect the realities on the ground. That’s the case with tin mill products, including tinplate steel, a specialized steel used to produce food cans for everything from beans and broth, carrots and corn to tomatoes and tuna.
As we look ahead to the future of education in America, we must ask ourselves two questions. How do we want young people in American to be educated, and how do we want them to be assessed academically?
For those of us who work in the field of election integrity, it is our primary goal to ensure that Americans can trust their elections. States are responsible for safeguarding the votes of their own citizen residents and promoting trust that the votes are counted as cast.
A recent poll released by the bipartisan Democracy Defense Project found that 91% of Ohio voters are confident that our votes will be accurately cast and counted in the 2024 elections.
The upcoming 2024 election is already being shaped by an array of unprecedented challenges, but for many voters in western North Carolina, the continued impacts of Hurricane Helene are poised to amplify the difficulties.
