Category: US Features

IN-DEPTH: Online Censorship Corrupts the American Spirit of Individual, Free Thought: Journalist Matt Taibbi

The “consensus enforcement mechanism” of censorship on social media has not only been an attack on civil liberty but has also sapped the public square of a desire to reach the truth, according to journalist Matt Taibbi. Where there was once a hunger for freedom, there is now a collective apathy over fighting to keep…


IN-DEPTH: Military Families No Longer Want Their Children to Enlist

More than two dozen military service members reached out to The Epoch Times, saying they are discouraging their children from donning the uniform. This marks the end of a legacy for some families, and a tough decision for all. Chris Collins served in the Coast Guard for nearly 12 years before “getting kicked out” in…


Politicians, Activists Eye Parents as Massive Interest Group as Parents Start to Organize

Parents are a sizable group, steadily accounting for more than 60 million of the population in recent decades. But the numerous demographic subsets make parents an unlikely interest group when race, socioeconomic status, geography, and other factors are better hot-button issues. Until, that is, about two weeks ago, when nearly every notable Republican 2024 presidential…


Rising Crime Rate Spurs Increased Demand for Highly-Trained Protection Dogs

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.—Connor Rafferty has been bitten dozens of times by canine “Ditto,” though he’s not shy when it happens. Wearing a padded safety suit, Rafferty, a professional “bite trainer” at K9 Defense in Scottsdale, Arizona, waited for Ditto to make a go at him on July 11. And Ditto, a 3-year-old Belgian Malinois, was quick…


IN DEPTH: America Needs to Rebuild Its Manufacturing Power to Outplay the CCP: China Scholar

To cut dependency on the Chinese economy, the United States needs to base its policies on “two pillars”: economic containment of communist China and rebuilding the industrial power in the United States, said Jonathan Ward, a China scholar and founder of the Atlas Organization. American policy toward communist China was guided for decades by the…


IN-DEPTH: Florida, California GOP Push Back Against Claims of Anti-Trump Bias

Some supporters of former President Donald Trump are concerned that GOP rule changes in a pair of key states may hurt his bid to become the Republican Party’s 2024 presidential nominee. The changes also could help his second-place challenger, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, gain ground, Mr. Trump’s allies allege. But Republican leaders in the two…


Understanding the Marxist Underpinnings of Education

“This corruption of scholarship,” says James Lindsay, “creates an entire Lysenkoist artifice that poisons the whole enterprise, the twisted perversion you get when the knowledge generating enterprise gets completely corrupted.” In a recent episode of “American Thought Leaders,” host Jan Jekielek meets with Lindsay, founder of the website New Discourses, to discuss Marxist corruption in…


Homicides Rise 96 Percent in Washington State After Passage of Gun Restrictions

Data shows that the number of homicides in Washington State skyrocketed after Second Amendment Rights were restricted. According to a report released July 10 (pdf), the rate of murders, violence, and property crimes rose across Washington state in 2022, while the number of law enforcement officers available to respond and protect citizens decreased. Specifically, the…


Florida Becomes Nation’s Inflation Hot Spot, Housing a Major Contributor

Florida has become the nation’s inflation hot spot. Data released on July 12 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showed that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 0.2 percent in June, behind a 0.1 percent increase in May. Overall, there was an increase of 3.0 percent over the last 12 months before a seasonal…


IN-DEPTH: ‘It Would Be Devastating’: Local Officials Warn of Wind Turbine Development’s Impact to Jersey Shore’s Tourism Industry

Serene beachside views that bring in a lucrative tourism industry could be cut to ribbons if wind companies succeed in constructing fleets of monopole turbines along the east coast. Orsted, a wind energy company 51 percent owned by the Danish government, has plans to install 200 turbines throughout 161,000 acres of ocean nine miles off…