ByXStory Streamrecent articlesUpdate, May 4, 2020: Nikole Hannah-Jones was for her lead work on the disputed "1619 Project" discussed in this essay.The New York Times is widely admired for owning up to its errors. In addition to the corrections it runs each day, it has a tradition of publishing extensive Editor’s Notes and even full-length investigations when it has determined that flawed reporting misled readers and botched the rough first draft of history. Since 2000, these have included lengthy reassessments of its reporting on whether a Chinese American scientist, , had...…ByXStory Streamrecent articlesUpdate, May 4, 2020: Nikole Hannah-Jones was for her lead work on the disputed "1619 Project" discussed in this essay.The New York Times is widely admired for owning up to its errors. In addition to the corrections it runs each day, it has a tradition of publishing extensive Editor’s Notes and even full-length investigations when it has determined that flawed reporting misled readers and botched the rough first draft of history. Since 2000, these have included lengthy reassessments of its reporting on whether a Chinese American scientist, , had...WW…

By, RealClearInvestigationsXStory Streamrecent articlesCrowdStrike, the private cyber-security firm that first accused Russia of hacking Democratic Party emails and served as a critical source for U.S. intelligence officials in the years-long Trump-Russia probe, acknowledged to Congress more than two years ago that it had no concrete evidence that Russian hackers stole emails from the Democratic National Committee’s server.Crowdstrike President Shawn Henry: "We just don’t have the evidence ..."Crowdstrike.comCrowdStrike President Shawn Henry's admission under oath,  in a...…By, RealClearInvestigationsXStory Streamrecent articlesCrowdStrike, the private cyber-security firm that first accused Russia of hacking Democratic Party emails and served as a critical source for U.S. intelligence officials in the years-long Trump-Russia probe, acknowledged to Congress more than two years ago that it had no concrete evidence that Russian hackers stole emails from the Democratic National Committee’s server.Crowdstrike President Shawn Henry: "We just don’t have the evidence ..."Crowdstrike.comCrowdStrike President Shawn Henry's admission under oath,  in a...WW…

|Posted ByOn Date May 14, 2020From Fox News: Documents show Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch's impeachment testimony of Burisma meetings and letters. On "The Ingraham Angle," perspectives from Fox News contributor John Solomon and Rep. Lee Zeldin, Republican member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.  Related Topics: ,CommentVideo ArchivesSign up for RC newsletters©2020 RealClearInvestigations |…|Posted ByOn Date May 14, 2020From Fox News: Documents show Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch's impeachment testimony of Burisma meetings and letters. On "The Ingraham Angle," perspectives from Fox News contributor John Solomon and Rep. Lee Zeldin, Republican member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.  Related Topics: ,CommentVideo ArchivesSign up for RC newsletters©2020 RealClearInvestigations |WW…

ByXStory Streamrecent articlesAbove, from "The Crystal Ball" (1904) by John William Waterhouse. Predictions are a fraught enterprise. With computer models too.COVID-19 has proved to be a crisis not only for public health but for public policy. As credentialed experts, media commentators, and elected officials have insisted that ordinary men and women heed “the science,” the statistical models cited by scientists to predict the spread of contagion and justify the lockdown of the national economy have proven to be far off-base.Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York complained this week about the...…ByXStory Streamrecent articlesAbove, from "The Crystal Ball" (1904) by John William Waterhouse. Predictions are a fraught enterprise. With computer models too.COVID-19 has proved to be a crisis not only for public health but for public policy. As credentialed experts, media commentators, and elected officials have insisted that ordinary men and women heed “the science,” the statistical models cited by scientists to predict the spread of contagion and justify the lockdown of the national economy have proven to be far off-base.Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York complained this week about the...WW…

|Posted ByOn Date May 21, 2020From :The professional education establishment actually tried to ban it 98 years ago. Then, they tried to ban private schools, too! But the Supreme Court stopped them, writing, "the child is not the mere creature of the state."I wish the state would remember that.Anyway, the educator's complaints about home schooling "setting back a generation" are bunk.Related Topics: , , ,CommentVideo ArchivesSign up for RC newsletters©2020 RealClearInvestigations |…|Posted ByOn Date May 21, 2020From :The professional education establishment actually tried to ban it 98 years ago. Then, they tried to ban private schools, too! But the Supreme Court stopped them, writing, "the child is not the mere creature of the state."I wish the state would remember that.Anyway, the educator's complaints about home schooling "setting back a generation" are bunk.Related Topics: , , ,CommentVideo ArchivesSign up for RC newsletters©2020 RealClearInvestigations |WW…

ByXStory Streamrecent articlesAbove,  grass grown over a section of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline beneath a restored corridor in West Virginia. UPDATE: The pipeline's death knell came over the July 4 weekend as utilities killed the three-state project, citing "legal uncertainty." Read .The embattled Atlantic Coast Pipeline begins its run in West Virginia. The steel tube built to ferry 1.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day weaves underground through mountain terrain toward its destination two states away in North Carolina. Then it stops, after only 30 miles but many millions of...…ByXStory Streamrecent articlesAbove,  grass grown over a section of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline beneath a restored corridor in West Virginia. UPDATE: The pipeline's death knell came over the July 4 weekend as utilities killed the three-state project, citing "legal uncertainty." Read .The embattled Atlantic Coast Pipeline begins its run in West Virginia. The steel tube built to ferry 1.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas a day weaves underground through mountain terrain toward its destination two states away in North Carolina. Then it stops, after only 30 miles but many millions of...WW…

By&, RealClearInvestigationsXStory Streamrecent articlesThe historic surge of illegal immigrants across America’s southern border is fueling a hidden crime spree few in Washington seem willing or able to address: widespread identity theft victimizing unwitting Americans perpetrated by migrants who need U.S. credentials to work.An extensive review of government reports, think-tank research, news accounts, and interviews with policymakers and scholars suggests the problem involves millions of people – though measuring it with precision is difficult because of the lack of data...…By&, RealClearInvestigationsXStory Streamrecent articlesThe historic surge of illegal immigrants across America’s southern border is fueling a hidden crime spree few in Washington seem willing or able to address: widespread identity theft victimizing unwitting Americans perpetrated by migrants who need U.S. credentials to work.An extensive review of government reports, think-tank research, news accounts, and interviews with policymakers and scholars suggests the problem involves millions of people – though measuring it with precision is difficult because of the lack of data...WW…

By, RealClearInvestigationsXStory Streamrecent articles On the morning of the last day of his life, Adam Rashid called his parents to tell them he was about to be discharged from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. He had gone there the night before, just after being released from the county jail where he had been held for a month for failing to make a court appearance.According to the doctor who interviewed him, Adam, a 25-year-old drug addict suffering from schizophrenia, said he didn’t have suicidal or homicidal thoughts but requested the anti-anxiety...…By, RealClearInvestigationsXStory Streamrecent articles On the morning of the last day of his life, Adam Rashid called his parents to tell them he was about to be discharged from Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. He had gone there the night before, just after being released from the county jail where he had been held for a month for failing to make a court appearance.According to the doctor who interviewed him, Adam, a 25-year-old drug addict suffering from schizophrenia, said he didn’t have suicidal or homicidal thoughts but requested the anti-anxiety...WW…

By, RealClearInvestigationsXStory Streamrecent articlesIn the annals of racial reckoning, Georgetown University’s public atonement for its historical links to slavery has attracted special attention and generous praise.Since the student newspaper jolted the campus with accounts of Jesuit priests engineering the sale of 272 enslaved people in 1838 to stave off bankruptcy for the college, Georgetown has honored campus buildings after an enslaved black laborer and a black Catholic educator, and pledged funding for health clinics and local schools. The prestigious institution now offers...…By, RealClearInvestigationsXStory Streamrecent articlesIn the annals of racial reckoning, Georgetown University’s public atonement for its historical links to slavery has attracted special attention and generous praise.Since the student newspaper jolted the campus with accounts of Jesuit priests engineering the sale of 272 enslaved people in 1838 to stave off bankruptcy for the college, Georgetown has honored campus buildings after an enslaved black laborer and a black Catholic educator, and pledged funding for health clinics and local schools. The prestigious institution now offers...WW…

ByXStory Streamrecent articlesAbove, the FBI's Peter Strzok, one of two agents at Flynn's interview.The Justice Department’s closing of its criminal case against President Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn on Thursday came as new red flags emerged from recently released documents revealing the FBI’s handling of the matter.Michael Flynn: New documents reveal irregular handling and editing of his FBI interview form.AP Photo/Manuel Balce CenetaFormer FBI agents and federal prosecutors tell RealClearInvestigations that the documents show suspiciously irregular handling and...…ByXStory Streamrecent articlesAbove, the FBI's Peter Strzok, one of two agents at Flynn's interview.The Justice Department’s closing of its criminal case against President Trump's former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn on Thursday came as new red flags emerged from recently released documents revealing the FBI’s handling of the matter.Michael Flynn: New documents reveal irregular handling and editing of his FBI interview form.AP Photo/Manuel Balce CenetaFormer FBI agents and federal prosecutors tell RealClearInvestigations that the documents show suspiciously irregular handling and...WW…