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Among the many laws that took effect at the beginning of this new year is one in New Jersey that will astound and should anger people with children in the state’s public schools. It’s called Act 1669 and it removes a requirement that teachers pass a basic reading, writing and math test to be eligible to teach. The law was signed by Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ) last June.

An essay appeared recently in The Wall Street Journal under the headline “What Happens When a Whole Generation Never Grows Up?”Behavior that has always been understood to define what it means to be an adult is disappearing among America’s younger generations. Institutions always seen as the sinews that define and hold together a society — homeownership, marriage, children — no longer…

PragerU founder Dennis Prager proclaimed that freedom of speech is critically important and that without it “freedom dies.”

Even after years of liberal media and politicians calling for the censorship of online speech, a plurality of Americans still say the government should not intervene — even at the cost of some false information slipping through. A new…

Social media can often appear to be an echo chamber, especially to those closely following election events. But a recent survey suggests that Big Tech is shifting users’ political views. A study from the Pew Research Center published on October 15 found that 23 percent of adult social media users in the United States changed a political view they hold because of something they saw on social…

During a 12-month period when the news covered everything from impeachment to an upcoming presidential election and from a global pandemic to protests across America on racial issues, a survey concluded that the most significant factor in how a person perceives the “mainstream media” is that individual’s political affiliation. One of the most important elements in this determination is support…