Hamas’ October 7 massacre has galvanized Israel’s critics in the United States, who have advocated for upending America’s historically close relationship with the Jewish state. Since 2023, this ostensibly anti-Zionist fervor has manifested itself in myriad ways, including in the creation of PACs, backed by wealthy Muslim-Americans and leftwing Democrats, to serve as self-styled counterweights to the influential pro-Israel group AIPAC. Established earlier this year, American Priorities (see article here)...
On Nov. 17, 2023, Mustafa Ramos, a Muslim man wearing a turban and a robe, was shot in the buttocks while selling Islamic paraphernalia adjacent to the Islamic Center of Rhode Island mosque in Providence.
The 52-year-old man was treated and released from the hospital in two hours. The incident, however, which happened just six weeks after Hamas’ deadly Oct. 7 attack targeting Israeli citizen non-combatants of all ages, quickly became national and...
For much of its five-decade history, the Colorado Energy Office was a small department with a handful of employees who supported practical, cost-saving energy conservation measures. From 2010 to 2022, records show, the office received an average of $7 million per year from the U.S. Department of Energy.
All that changed after the Biden administration and Congress approved hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending to provide “a more equitable, low-carbon, and clean...
If Johns Hopkins University wanted to signal its seriousness about creating an alternative to the left-leaning orthodoxy that permeates higher education, it couldn’t have done better than the recent hire of economist Peter Arcidiacono.
Arcidiacono, a devout Roman Catholic, faced campus protests and sleepless nights after publication of his empirical findings that affirmative action can be harmful to minority students who aren’t academically prepared. He was in the spotlight again for...
