Online advocacy – the ability of any citizen to voice their concern or request with their elected leaders using the Internet – hasn’t changed much in 15 years, and it’s time to upend how it works. Even before the recent partial government shutdown, congressional approval ratings were as low as …

Fourth grade students in Vermilion Parish, La. were given a homework assignment that included words like “Po Pimp” and “mobstaz,” but school officials said the worksheet was age appropriate based on an education website affiliated with Common Core education standards. “I try to instill values in my son,” parent Brittney …

Secretary of State John Kerry spent the last few weeks believing that U.S. policy in Egypt would best be served by negotiating with Interim Vice President Mohamed ElBaradei, the former United Nations diplomat from Vienna who resigned his post after just 30 days, said a senior U.S. State Department official …

Mr. President, it’s your move. The heat of public reaction from the George Zimmerman-Trayvon Martin murder trial is starting to cool. Now the first black president has a chance to use his unique standing in black America to move beyond the racial static. He can help future Trayvon Martins – …

When former spy Edward Snowden revealed to the world that the federal government is spying on most Americans, most Americans were surprised and unhappy. But half of official Washington yawned before it roared. Somehow the people in the government had a pretty good idea of what government spies are doing, …

We all know the countdown: we’ve been working really hard through the long, cold winter and have been counting down the days to the sweet release of the long, hot, lazy days of summer. Sure, we still have to go to work, but many of us also get those long, …

Editor’s note: Andrew Breitbart died one year ago on March 1. The following piece originally appeared on Breitbart.com. It is used with permission. “The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long.” – Lao Tzu The funny thing is, Andrew would give me an endless hard time for …

Tax-exempt charities have their work cut out for them in 2013. A record 46.2 million people now live in poverty, gas prices hit an all-time annual average $3.60 a gallon, food stamp enrollment is at 47.7 million (with an annual cost of over $74 billion) for the first time in …

I believe a president — Republican or Democrat — almost always deserves to have the cabinet that he wishes, with the bar very, very high to oppose his choice. Thus, there should be heavy presumption that President Obama’s reported nominee for secretary of Defense, former Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, …

Our family spent days at the bedside of my beloved mother-in-law as she lay dying at Johns Hopkins hospital. She had been diagnosed with advanced bone marrow cancer four years earlier, and now her doctors told us her death was certainly imminent. She was unconscious and on hospice care, and …