Norbert Michel and Jerome Famularo Today’s populists peddle two narratives to support their agenda. The first one is that the middle class suffered broad income stagnation for the past 50 years. The second one is that policymakers’ blind devotion to free markets—especially through free trade—decimated the US manufacturing sector, “hollowing out” the middle class by causing the alleged income stagnation. The ...

Colleen Hroncich Alongside the growth of homeschooling and microschooling, student-directed learning seems to be gaining popularity. Many of the options highlighted in the Friday Feature incorporate some aspects of self-directed or project-based learning throughout the day. One Stone, in Boise, Idaho, takes student-directed to a whole different level. One Stone was founded in 2008 with an after-school program called Project ...

The right-wing Reform UK Party saw a series of electoral wins early Friday after it secured parliamentary, mayoral and several local election seats in what leader Nigel Farage said is proof that Reform UK is ‘now the opposition party to this Labour government.’ Farage, who predicted earlier this year in an interview with Fox News Digital that there would be ...

FIRST ON FOX : Fox News Digital has learned that the U.S. could withhold funding for the war against Islamist terror in Somalia until Europe, the African Union (A.U.) and the United Nations (U.N.) pay more of their ‘fair’ share toward the cost of striking out and keeping the peace in the conflict-torn country.  These plans to ‘prohibit’ the use of ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. surgeon general, Dr. Janette Nesheiwat, has been making the rounds on Capitol Hill, garnering support ahead of her upcoming confirmation hearing, with senators describing her as a ‘fierce’ advocate for the ‘Make America Healthy Again’ (MAHA) movement.  Sources familiar with her confirmation hearing prep told Fox News Digital that Nesheiwat has had ...

FIRST ON FOX: The United Nations’ UN80 Task Force is examining multiple suggested methods for reorganizing the institution, according to a leaked, confidential document shared with Fox News Digital. The six-page paper cites multiple inefficiencies and areas of improvement needed to combat ‘geopolitical shifts and substantial reductions in foreign aid budgets’ which are ‘challenging the legitimacy and effectiveness of the ...

The House GOP’s standoff over the former Biden administration’s green energy subsides is colliding with Republicans’ plans for a massive bill advancing President Donald Trump’s agenda. Thirty-eight House Republicans are writing to Ways & Means Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., the chamber’s top tax writer, urging a full repeal of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in the coming budget reconciliation bill. ...

The Pentagon’s procurement system has kept American forces stocked with some of the most iconic military hardware in history – from the battle-hardened Humvee to the cutting-edge Apache helicopter. But according to the Army’s top technology officer, it’s also trapped in a cycle of outdated thinking and bloated paperwork that could hinder the U.S. in the next great-power conflict. ‘We ...

Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy suggested that the department has accomplished more during the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term than President Joe Biden and former Transportation Sec. Pete Buttigieg accomplished in four years. Duffy made the assertion when sharing a post by Buttigieg, who became Transportation secretary not long after Biden took office in 2021. ‘100 days ...

FIRST ON FOX : Fox News Digital has learned that the U.S. could withhold funding for the war against Islamist terror in Somalia until Europe, the African Union (A.U.) and the United Nations (U.N.) pay more of their ‘fair’ share toward the cost of striking out and keeping the peace in the conflict-torn country.  These plans to ‘prohibit’ the use of ...