Op-ed
How Texas Can Ensure Trust in Elections
What’s the best way to ensure that Texans trust our elections? This isn’t a hypothetical question. It’s the central problem with a policy known as “ranked-choice voting,” which the state legislature is currently debating. Our state lawmakers need to reach the right answer, because if they get it wrong, trust in our elections and democracy is going to plummet even lower than it already is. Read more...
- Election Integrity
- Ranked Choice Voting
Turning The Page On Covid-Era Mistakes
The first step to fixing a mistake is to stop what you're doing wrong, and Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is doing that with the process of Medicaid redetermination in Arkansas. Read more...
- Welfare Reform
Work Requirements For Welfare Work — We’ve Seen It Before
In the last few decades, the Midwest has been a case study in the effectiveness of work requirements in welfare to create opportunity, increase household incomes and revive economies. Read more...
- Welfare Reform
- Work Requirements
Work Requirements for Welfare Aren’t ‘Wacko’
Are work requirements for welfare recipients “wacko”? That’s what President Biden said on April 19 in reaction to House Republicans’ debt-ceiling proposal, which included this policy for Medicaid and food stamps. Read more...
- Welfare Reform
- Work Requirements
NC deserves a ‘shot clock’ for building permits — with consequences
If you miss a deadline, there’s a penalty. That’s a part of life for everyone… except for the government. Read more...
- Limited Government
Biden Is Hurting My Special Needs Son, But Sarah Huckabee Sanders Is Helping
My wife and I never thought it would be so difficult to get medications and appointments for our special-needs son. He has severe autism and epilepsy, requiring daily doses and regular visits to the doctor’s office. Since he’s disabled, he qualifies for Medicaid, which we’ve found is the only way to get everything he needs. But […] Read more...
- Medicaid Expansion
- Welfare Reform
Biden Can Lower Prescription Drug Prices by Simply Following the Law
Not every problem calls for a government solution. But in the case of runaway prescription drug prices, there’s a smart, conservative policy that can help drive down the price of prescription drugs, effectively and fairly, by employing a free-market solution rather than government price controls. Read more...
Medicaid Expansion Won’t Stop Rural Hospital Closures
Democrats think they’ve found the key to convincing Republican states to expand Medicaid and cover millions more able-bodied adults in the government-run health-insurance program. Read more...
- Medicaid Expansion
- Welfare Reform
Since When Did Linking Work to Welfare Handouts Become So Controversial?
Should you work to get welfare? Republicans in the House of Representatives say yes. It’s the right answer. House Republicans passed their proposal to raise the debt ceiling Wednesday, and they’ve rallied around work requirements for able-bodied childless adults on Medicaid and food stamps. Read more...
- Welfare Reform
Biden’s Latest Executive Order Is a Trojan Horse for a Federal DEI Takeover
Federal agencies are on a hiring spree , searching for candidates to fill new, permanent, high-paying positions. But these new positions are not focused on advancing our nation’s economic and security interests. Instead, they’re focused on promoting the Left’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda. Read more...
- Limited Government
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