American Thinker

For years, everyone trying to undermine K–12 often had to look the other way. They didn’t dare discuss Rudolf Flesch’s famous book explaining why Johnny can’t read. Instead, these resourceful meddlers treated Flesch as a pariah.…

My story is a blend of cultures, faiths, and experiences that have shaped my view of America. I’m Yassin Fawaz, the son of an African-American Christian mother and an Arab-American Shiite Muslim father. Growing up between two worlds, I’ve…

Shakespeare famously wrote, ‘All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players; And one man in his time plays many parts’ in his celebrated play As You Like It.The bard meant this as a metaphor for how people amend their…

Except for the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, immigration laws were not restrictive until the 1920s. Because of the incredible growth of manufacturing during the last third of the 19th century, millions of people from Europe (but also other…

Republicans hold only slim majorities in Congress, particularly in the House.Midterm elections typically shift control to the party not in the White House. Democrats need only a few more House seats to hinder President Trump’s final two…

Never in recent history have relations between the United States and Europe been as tense as in this period — that is, since the Trump administration began taking its first steps and revealing its foreign policy…

President Donald Trump’s executive order of March 6, on the Establishment of a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and a US Digital Asset Stockpile is not just a policy shift—it is a paradigm shift. In a single stroke, the White House has transformed…

The great question of the moment is whether the Trump Revolution is irreversible, or whether our Democratic friends will get their act together and return in clouds of glory to rule over us as they did so magnificently from the days of…

We hear a lot of talk about how Trump has “upset norms,” and “abandoned our allies” to “side with a dictator,” but so far as I can tell, while Trump is “siding” with Putin, nobody has ever accused him of “wooing” Putin. “Wooing” isn’t even…

The United States’ fertility rate has fallen to around 1.78, which, combined with the general downward trajectory, is a cause for concern. To replace the population, a country needs to maintain a rate around 2.1.When I was a young…