Charles Fain Lehman is a staff writer for the Washington Free Beacon. He writes about policy, covering crime, law, drugs, immigration, and social issues. Reach him on twitter (@CharlesFLehman) or by email at lehman@freebeacon.com.
Americans are turning to their husbands and wives for support amid a nationwide pandemic that reveals the importance of strong families, results from a new survey suggest. 
In August of 2019, as young journalists agitated for their newsrooms to pivot towards social justice, American University’s Dr. Ibram X. Kendi secured a $50,000 grant from the Ford Foundation to develop a “racial reporting guidebook” to help the media hew to Kendi’s “antiracist” principles. 
A New York Times tech reporter during a Thursday panel praised the work of progressive activist Tara McGowan, whose Courier Newsroom project has been labeled misleading and fake news by a variety of nonpartisan outlets. 
Over $50 billion in coronavirus relief meant for healthcare providers remains unspent, even as some in the industry say they have gotten just a fraction of what they need to cover pandemic-related losses. 
The New York Times on Tuesday evening hosted a conversation with controversial political activist Tara McGowan, whose political network oversees a web of news sites that nonpartisan experts have labeled fake news. 
The two-decade-long crime decline appears to have conclusively plateaued, a new report released Monday shows, as the share of Americans who faced a violent crime remained between 0.9 and 0.6 percent for the 12th year running. 
Former mechanic Shawn Shriver bought a storefront about an hour outside Pittsburgh years ago. He created a 400-square-foot gun shop that he runs with his wife. They sell guns, ammo, and holsters to their neighbors. They normally carry about 150 pistols on a regular day. But there haven’t been many regular days since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic in March, as well as the public unrest that emerged in June.
On the eve of World War II, there were roughly 130 million Americans, some 6 percent of the world's population. By comparison, mainland Japan had 72 million, Germany 69 million, and Italy just 43 million. Only the Soviet Union—168 million—could match the United States man-for-man. 
The design of long-standing welfare programs likely keeps numerous working-class couples from getting hitched, a research report released Thursday by the American Enterprise Institute argues. 
In a record-breaking year for gun buying, the biggest spike in firearms purchases came as protests and riots broke out across the nation in June, a Washington Free Beacon analysis of FBI data indicates. 