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^{Caitlyn Axe
May 17, 2024
Homelessness}

Listen to the First Episode of the Restorations Podcast!

_{Caitlyn Axe
May 17, 2024
Homelessness}

I'm joined on my very first episode by actor Billy Baldwin and Discovery Senior Fellow and homelessness expert Robert Marbut. We talk about their upcoming documentary (Americans With No Address), our experience doing outreach on the streets of Seattle, and why the right and left have every reason to find common ground on homelessness, addiction, and untreated mental illness. Read More ›

In 1789 a charming five year old chimney sweep toiled through tough days in the bustling streets embodying the spirit of a spirited eighteenth century street urchin

^{Marvin Olasky
May 17, 2024
Homelessness}

Caring for Orphans in New York City

_{Marvin Olasky
May 17, 2024
Homelessness}

Two columns ago I mentioned Charles Brace's concern about high rents in New York City. When Brace founded the New York Children's Aid Society in 1853, he began by setting up religious meetings aimed at orphaned or abandoned boys from 10 to 18 who slept in alleys. Read More ›

Group of elementary school children running outside at the end of the lessons. Happy school boys and girls running outside from school building. Finish school and summer vacation concept.

^{Keri D. Ingraham
May 16, 2024
Education}

More Public Charter Schools Are Needed Nationwide

_{Keri D. Ingraham
May 16, 2024
Education}

Parents, children, and supporters of school choice have cause to celebrate this National Charter Schools Week. Charter schools earned the top two spots on a list of the best high schools in America. Yet these tuition-free public schools open to all students are far too few nationwide. Read More ›

^{Caitlyn Axe
May 15, 2024
Homelessness}

Courts Are Dismissing Eviction Cases on the Grounds of “Confusion”

_{Caitlyn Axe
May 15, 2024
Homelessness}

Landlords can expect to be penalized for not being clear enough about a confusing law that hurts them. Read More ›

Surgery, medical and a team of doctors in an operating room at the hospital for a medical procedure from patient pov. Face, mask and teamwork with a group of medicine professionals in an operation.

^{Wesley J. Smith
May 15, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

No, Doctors Shouldn’t Make Treatment Decisions for Incompetent Patients

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 15, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Cardiologist and New York Times columnist Sandeep Jauhar has published a piece advocating that doctors and bioethicists be empowered to force treatment on some patients. He writes in the context of wanting to compel hospitalization on a schizophrenic patient with serious heart problems. From "Doctors Need a Better Way to Treat Patients Without Their Consent:" Read More ›

^{Jonathan Choe
May 13, 2024
Homelessness}

Billy Baldwin Witnesses Seattle’s Homelessness Crisis

_{Jonathan Choe
May 13, 2024
Homelessness}

Discovery Institute is going Hollywood! Our Senior Fellow Dr. Robert Marbut teamed up with film producer Robert Craig and actor Billy Baldwin to make "Americans With No Address," one of the most important documentaries highlighting the nation's homeless crisis. We Heart Seattle's Andrea Suarez is also a key voice in the movie. Some of the cast members recently took a tour of Seattle. Read More ›

^{Wesley J. Smith
May 13, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

Colorado Town Learns the Harm Caused by Granting Rights to Nature

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 13, 2024
Human Exceptionalism}

The nature-rights movement isn't about conservation or responsible husbanding of the natural world. Rather, it seeks to handcuff human thriving by preventing most uses of our natural resources. But it sounds soooo nice, doesn't it? Well, the Colorado town of Nederland has learned the hard way that granting "rights" to waterways impedes all kinds of beneficial projects. Read More ›

^{Keri D. Ingraham
May 13, 2024
Education}

Bernie Sanders’ Plan to Reduce the Work Week to 32 Hours Will Lead to Nowhere

_{Keri D. Ingraham
May 13, 2024
Education}

Self-described democratic socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) introduced the “Thirty-Two Hour Work Week Act” recently that would mandate the standard workweek be reduced from 40 to 32 hours. Under the law, employees would not receive a reduction in pay despite the 20% drop in labor. Read More ›

^{Marvin Olasky
May 11, 2024
Discovery Institute}

The Wrongs of Spring

_{Marvin Olasky
May 11, 2024
Discovery Institute}

Two decades ago John Judis and Ruy Teixeira prophesied big changes in their book The Emerging Democratic Majority. Their new book asks, Where Have All the Democrats Gone? (Henry Holt, 2023). Essentially, college-educated professionals (some with unorthodox lifestyles) have now pushed out “many of the people in the deindustrialized towns and small cities of middle America [and left them] stripped Read More ›

A pioneer family on the frontier, amidst a vast prairie, setting up their homestead, gazes towards a hopeful horizon.

^{Marvin Olasky
May 10, 2024
Homelessness}

Go West, Young Man (and Woman) | Fix Homelessness

_{Marvin Olasky
May 10, 2024
Homelessness}

We often think westward migration was for males only. In 1862 the Homestead Act allowed land claims from “any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years.” Women, including those widowed by the Civil War, made one third of all homestead claims. Some men and women who made it to the Midwest and went no further became homeless. Read More ›