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Democrats Are Throwing Kids Under The Bus

Jul 18, 2023

By Stephen Moore | Have you heard the outrageous story of what happened recently in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s capital? Gov. Josh Shapiro (D-Pa.), elected in 2022, had campaigned on school choice for tens of thousands of children, mostly minorities, who are forced to...

Jungle Primaries? Just Another Bad Idea Designed To Turn Arizona Into California

Jul 16, 2023

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | Bad ideas never seem to go away. And in politics, they often get recycled every 10 years because consultants need to make money. That’s why it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise that we’re seeing another push for jungle...

The Push For ‘Net Zero’ Isn’t Clean Or Green

Jul 15, 2023

By Kevin Mooney | By cutting off oil and gas exploration as part of a global campaign to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, policymakers aligned with climate activists are “misdirecting scarce innovation resources,” according to an analysis of energy transition...

ASU Deserves An ‘F’ For Its Failure To Uphold Free Speech

Jul 12, 2023

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | Universities are supposed to be the “marketplace of ideas.” With a “green light” rating from the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE), you would think that Arizona State University (ASU) would...

Arizona, We Have A Problem: The State Of S.T.E.M. Education

Jul 10, 2023

By Diane Douglas and Dr. Peter Pingerelli | Some remember the live broadcast of Apollo 8 orbiting the moon on Christmas Eve 1968. Over 1/4 of the world's population listened in, as the crew read from the Book of Genesis. The United States of America led in space...

News Flash: Free Things From Government Are Never Really Free

Jul 9, 2023

By Dr. Thomas Patterson | American school children are instructed that the late 19th century, the Gilded Age, was dominated by “robber barons” who made great fortunes creating monopolies that exploited the poor and middle classes. Howard Zinn‘s best-selling textbook,...

Peoria School Board Members Advocate For Boys To Invade Girls’ Bathrooms

Jul 8, 2023

By Tiffany Benson | Peoria Unified School District (PUSD) Board President David Sandoval and Board Members Bill Sorensen and Melissa Ewing have effectively silenced all women and girls on school grounds. Despite hearing concerns from countless community members,...

They’re Coming For Your Children

Jul 5, 2023

By Suzanne Downing | From the South Lawn of the White House to the pulsing heartbeats of North America’s bustling metropolises, Democrats are stepping into the 2024 electoral fray armed with a transgender-dominated platform that makes the riots of 2020 look like a...

Housing Shortage Threatens Arizona’s Economic Gains

Jun 30, 2023

By Pat Nolan | Last year, Arizona was the most popular state for people to relocate to. Those new arrivals helped boost our economy and put the state’s budget in the black. That’s the good news. But the bad news is that the state is falling behind in building homes to...

Only Parents Can Solve America’s Education Crisis

Jun 28, 2023

By Peter Roff | America is losing faith in its system of free public education. Test scores are down. Violence in schools is up. There’s a growing perception that things are out of control. What’s odd about it all is how no one, seemingly, is interested in exploring...

SCR 1015 Would Ensure That Our State’s Initiative Process Is For All Arizonans

Jun 24, 2023

By the Arizona Free Enterprise Club | For years, Arizona has been a target of out-of-state special interest groups that want to put their radical ideas in our state. The process usually goes something like this. Liberal groups from outside Arizona take an issue that...

Politicized Science Can Be Dangerous To Your Health

Jun 22, 2023

By Dr. Thomas Patterson | The Lancet was once a leading British medical journal. It was sober and medically exacting. It was so respected that it was often cited to settle controversial issues in the field of medicine. Today, it is a shell of its former self, shot...