by Danelle Morton and Topher Sanders, with additional reporting by Jessica Lussenhop ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Series: Train Country; Investigating Railroad Safety in America As powerful railroad companies race to maximize
Bonner Cohen, PhD Bonner R Cohen is a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, where he concentrates on energy, natural resources, and international relations. He also serves as a senior policy adviser with the Heartland Institute, senior policy analyst with the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow,
Peter Allan Williams Writer and broadcaster for half a century. Now watching from the sidelines although verbalising thoughts on www.reality check.radio three days a week peterallanwilliams.substack.com I’m writing this on the morning of November 23rd, 2023. Because of one of the most famous events in
Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org In November 2021, former US Representative from Georgia Bob Barr wrote a little-noticed political column claiming that buried inside President Joe Biden’s $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure legislation was a
Bobbie Anne Flower Cox brownstone.org Bobbie Anne, a 2023 Brownstone Fellow, is an attorney with 25 years experience in the private sector, who continues to practice law but also lectures in her field of expertise – government over-reach and improper regulation and assessments. I hope you are sitting down when
Duggan Flanakin Duggan Flanakin is a Senior Policy Analyst with the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow. A former Senior Fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, Mr. Flanakin authored definitive works on the creation of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and on environmental education in Texas. A brief history
At this point, a ‘Netflix documentary’ is to be taken as seriously as Erich von Daniken writing a manual on quantum physics. One of the worst offenders is When They See Us, a series ‘based’ on the case of the Central Park Five. A series so wildly fanciful that not
Mark Angelides libertynation.com The Federal Communications Commission has adopted new rules […] that ban internet providers from discrimination in service coverage based on income level, race, and other protected classes. However, the November 15 decision is merely the opening salvo in a three-pronged attack on digital freedoms pushed by lawmakers,
Ely elylazar.substack.com “We need to defeat bad speech with good speech.” Dr Zuhdi Jasser, American Islamic Forum For Democracy Dr Jasser, who is a Muslim reformist, made the statement in response to the virulent antisemitism that is flourishing across America and the world. It’s perplexing that there
David Cole likens it to the old Jewish folk tale of the Golem: Jews create a monster out of mud, the monster runs amok and ultimately turns on its makers. In Cole’s metaphor for contemporary American politics, the mud-men terrorising America’s Jews are the twin monsters of the
One of the differences between right-wingers and left-wingers is pragmatism. Right-wingers, because most of the time we invariably have to actually ‘govern’ whereas left-wingers do not, realise how the real world works and that often deals need to be cut which we’d rather not undertake. Occasionally this means eliminating
Jeffrey A Tucker Jeffrey A Tucker is founder and president of the Brownstone Institute. He is also Senior Economics Columnist for Epoch Times, author of 10 books, including Liberty or Lockdown, and thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press. He speaks widely on topics of economics, technology, social
Graham J Noble libertynation.com In 2020, prior to the November presidential election, agencies of the federal government launched a coordinated effort to fight “disinformation.” This project quickly morphed into a campaign of social media censorship aimed overwhelmingly at Republicans and prominent conservatives. One group that entirely escaped reprimand for
Sarah Cowgill libertynation.com The country of Mexico is not publicly believed to torture its citizens. However, the US State Department seems to think its government is a direct and prolific violator of humanitarian rights. A 2022 report from the Bureau of Human Rights, Democracy, and Labor spells it out
Ruth Elisabeth Appel Ph.D. Candidate in Communication Stanford University Misinformation is a key global threat, but Democrats and Republicans disagree about how to address the problem. In particular, Democrats and Republicans diverge sharply on removing misinformation from social media. Only three weeks after the Biden administration announced the Disinformation
