Eric Shear

The morning after the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Mike and Chantell Sackett—Pacific Legal Foundation clients who battled the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for 16 years over their half-acre property—NPR’s Morning Edition said the Sackett ruling seemed “different, more lasting” than other rulings.

Calm and collected, Ward Connerly sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1996, where he had been summoned to give testimony in favor of the passage of Proposition 209—a California initiative that would end racial— and sex-based preferences in public schools and government institutions.

From the moment President Joe Biden announced the student loan forgiveness program on August 24, 2022, it set off alarm bells.

When the county seized and sold the Minneapolis condo of Geraldine Tyler, an elderly grandmother, to settle her property tax debt, it should have refunded Geraldine the excess profit from the sale above the amount of her debt. Instead, it kept everything.

A liberal consensus has settled on the view that American schools must be more thoroughly integrated before black and Hispanic students can perform at the level of their white peers. The New York Times editorial board, for instance, recently described the city’s elite high schools as “profoundly segregated,” a state of affairs that calls to mind “the spirit of Jim Crow.” Nikole Hannah-Jones, whose long-form reporting on the subject earned her a MacArthur Genius Grant last year, detailed her experience as a black mother trying to find a school for her daughter in an “intensely segregated” system.

Imagine telling a nine-year-old boy he can’t continue at his elementary school because of the color of his skin. That’s a conversation St. Louis mom La’Shieka White had with her son Edmund Lee.

Governments can behave in extreme ways when it comes to sacred animals. In Ancient Egypt, anyone who caused the death of a cat, even accidentally, was put to death.

Men and women who grew up under the world’s cruelest governments are different from the rest of us.

On a yellow couch in North Carolina. That’s exactly where I was seven years ago when my life changed forever. I was visiting my in-laws for our oldest child’s spring break, and I was doing what every parent does when their kids are napping—I checked my work emails. One was an unsolicited message from a recruiter asking—in true headhunter-speak—if I knew anyone that might be interested in leading a long-established public interest law firm. I was already at a long-established public interest law firm, the Institute for Justice, and had I not been at spring break, I’d have deleted the email straight away. I wasn’t looking for a job and was quite content where I was. But I happened to mention it to my wife, Lyndsay, who was sitting next to me, chuckling that I’d received another one of those emails, which I routinely sent to the trash. Her response was a surprise—what would it hurt to explore the possibility?

He watched coworkers reject white applicants to City programs because, as one colleague told him, those applicants benefited from “white privilege.”

Mountain lions are solitary animals. They don’t move in packs; they prefer to be left alone. A mountain lion will stick to his territory. He’ll generally avoid human beings. But sometimes, hunters go looking for mountain lions. Here’s how a mountain lion hunt works in Montana: Tourists pay thousands of dollars to guides, who wait until a fresh snow blankets the ground. That makes the lion’s prints easy to track. Once the guides find a lion’s trail, they let loose a pack of hounds that chase the lion up a tree, pinning him in place.

It was a cold afternoon in October 1933, and Isabel Paterson was locked inside a New York City bank vault.