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A miracle defies the laws of nature.

This is why "the Mississippi Miracle," the sobriquet for the extraordinary gains that students in the Gulf state have made in reading in recent years, is a misnomer.

There's nothing miraculous about a state that adopts phonics and that sets high standards for its kids getting better results in reading ...Read more

Donald Trump's second term has been met with a sustained, low-level campaign of domestic terrorism.

It has mostly involved relatively minor property damage amid much more consequential acts, but the pattern of violence meant to achieve anti-Trump political goals has been unmistakable.

I thought Trump's second election would be met with ...Read more

In the killing of Charlie Kirk, we may well have experienced our first pro-trans assassination.

Is anyone surprised? The trans cause has been infused with an irrational fervor from the beginning, its ethos deeply illiberal and even threatening. Just ask J.K. Rowling.

Whether accurate or not, the implicit message of the gay-rights movement ...Read more

Jimmy Kimmel probably didn't affirmatively lie about the politics of Charlie Kirk's killer -- he just didn't know what he didn't know.

In the monologue that got him suspended by ABC, the late-night show host averred, "We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk...Read more

The culture war wasn't just a metaphor at Utah Valley University last week.

We need to learn more about Tyler Robinson, the alleged assassin of Charlie Kirk, but based on what we know so far, he represents the polar opposite of Kirk in every important respect.

The young man with the transgender boyfriend shot the young man with the wife and ...Read more

Charlie Kirk was a one-man answer to campus illiberalism.

He rose to prominence at a time when university administrators and progressive students were working in league to make campuses no-go zones for conservatives.

They effectively banned them from faculties. They didn't invite them on campus, or if they did, they were liable to disinvite ...Read more