Social immobility erodes American dream
By Fareed Zakaria If there’s one issue on which both the left and right agree, it is the crisis of declining mobility. The American dream at its core is that a person, no matter his or her background,...
View ArticleThe Luckiest Generation
Why those born in the late 1930s and 1940s are richer than those who came before — or after. Kevin D. Williamson writes: One of the great American assumptions — that while individuals and families may...
View ArticleWho Dreams of Being Average?
Average Is Over—But the American Dream Lives On Who dreams of being average? Americans define personal success in different ways, but certainly no one strives for mediocrity. The children of Lake...
View ArticleBoy Trouble
Kay S. Hymowitz writes: When I started following the research on child well-being about two decades ago, the focus was almost always girls’ problems—their low self-esteem, lax ambitions, eating...
View Article[PHOTO] Empire State of Mind
View of the chrysler building from the empire state building … sending postcardsFiled under: Art & Culture, History Tagged: American Dream, Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, New York City,...
View ArticleGov. Scott Walker Sworn in for Second Term as Wisconsin’s Governor
MADISON (WITI/AP) — Gov. Scott Walker is using his inaugural address to tout his record in Wisconsin, and draw a contrast with the federal government, as he considers a run for president. Walker said...
View Article[VIDEO] New York City Council Chamber Councilman David G. Greenfield Exposes...
New York City Councilman David G. Greenfield makes remarks on the floor of the council moments after Pro-Palestine activists protested the commemoration of 1.1 million people killed in Auschwitz....
View ArticleU.S. Department of Labor’s Big Fat Lie
None of them will tell you this: If you, a family member or anyone is unemployed and has subsequently given up on finding a job — if you are so hopelessly out of work that you’ve stopped looking over...
View ArticleCharles Murray: The Trouble Isn’t Liberals. It’s Progressives.
Not everyone on the left wants to quash dissent or indulge President Obama’s abuses of executive power Charles Murray writes: Social conservatives. Libertarians. Country-club conservatives. Tea party...
View Article‘Everything is Amazing': The Physical Results of Capitalism and The Paradise...
The Paradise of the Real Kevin D. Williamson writes: “We treat the physical results of capitalism as though they were an inevitability. In 1955, no captain of industry, prince, or potentate could buy a...
View ArticleArthur Brooks: Playing the Music of Capitalism
To become a majority again, conservatives need to reassert the moral case for free markets William McGurn writes: Before he was president of the American Enterprise Institute, Arthur Brooks played the...
View Article[VIDEO] Rand Paul Demonstrates a Modest Approach to Improving the Tax Code
The video invites viewers to click through to see Paul destroy the code by setting it on fire, shredding it with a chainsaw, and reducing it to pulp in a woodchipper, all soundtracked by an electric...
View Article[VIDEO] America: Not So Great, Anymore?
According to a new poll, most Americans think our country is not as great as it once was. Who do we blame? Filed under: History, Mediasphere, Politics, Think Tank, White House Tagged: Academic freedom,...
View Article[VIDEO] Conservatarian Novelist Brad Thor: ISIS Exemplifies Islam, Trump and...
In an unbroken chain of best-selling and page-turning thrillers featuring special-ops agent Scot Harvath, Brad Thor has created a fictional universe that reflects our chaotic contemporary world....
View ArticleLA Times Final Map Shows Clinton Winning with 352 Electoral Votes
…We’ve updated our electoral map for the final time in this topsy-turvy campaign year. For this version, our goal was no toss-ups. We’re giving you our best estimates, based on public polling, state...
View ArticleGlobal Reactions: ‘Trump’s Alpha Male Darwinian Feat in the US Election is...
Andrew Sheng says the way of the tech age is ‘disrupt or be disrupted’, and achieving the unthinkable rests on sheer willpower, as exemplified by the rise from nowhere of Donald Trump and Shenzhen....
View ArticleRestraining Donald Trump
Trump’s Administration and Expertise Noah Rothman writes: “Everybody who has signed a never-Trump letter or indicated an anti-Trump attitude is not going to get a job. And that’s most of the Republican...
View ArticleElite Campuses Offer Students Coloring Books, Puppies to Get Over Trump
The post-election freak-out on elite campuses is total, and is made all the worse because students on these campuses never meet anyone who disagrees with them. Robby Soave writes: In the wake of the...
View Article[VIDEO] Sanders: Racists and Sexists Make Up ‘Very Small Minority’ of People...
Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Mediasphere, Politics, U.S. News Tagged: American Dream, Americans, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Democrats, Donald Trump, GOP, media, Minority, MSNBC, news,...
View ArticleChildishness and Intolerance on College Campuses Embody What’s Wrong with...
Academia should consider how it contributed to, and reflects Americans’ judgments pertinent to, Donald Trump’s election. George Will writes: Many undergraduates, their fawn-like eyes wide with...
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