In Depth

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Politics This Week with John DePetro: Shouting into the Echo Chamber

By Justin Katz | December 20, 2021 |

John and Justin marvel at the inability of RI insiders to address the obvious problems facing the people they say they represent.

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McKee’s latest COVID response is management theater.

By Justin Katz | December 15, 2021 |

A reasonable observer would conclude that McKee’s new COVID mandates are useless, at best, and that public policy is being guided without regard to science or reasonable standards for balancing rights and risks.

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Critical race theory enters with tilted treatment of “funds of knowledge.”

By Justin Katz | December 14, 2021 |

The method is to train teachers with theories and techniques that are reasonable on their face, but that are joined with ideological preferences that are communicated in hidden assumptions. 

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Politics This Week with John DePetro: On the Political Theater of the Incompetent

By Justin Katz | December 13, 2021 |

John and Justin review instances of political theater in RI and the harmful effects the reactions are having.

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RI really needs to understand the nursing shortage.

By Justin Katz | December 10, 2021 |

As government officials and the mainstream media debate whether to insist that the people they rule wear masks wherever we go, the constantly growing burden of regulations on the healthcare industry seems never to come into question.

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Anchor Rising Launches the People’s Data Armory and Student Enrollment Application

By Anchor Rising | December 8, 2021 |

A growing set of tools, beginning with charts showing trends in public school enrollment, will help Rhode Islanders bring reality to public debates and government decision-making.

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Politics This Week with John DePetro: Campaign Season Starts Early!

By Justin Katz | December 7, 2021 |

John and Justin delve into the already-thick snow drifts of political campaign season.

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Trinity Rep Falls Back on the Woke Grift to Bully Reviewer

By Justin Katz | December 6, 2021 |

Trinity Rep’s open letter in response to a mostly positive review of A Christmas Carol in the Providence Journal isn’t just thinned skinned; it’s chillingly fascist.

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Social Media Brings Forth the Most Disturbing Pro-Abortion Argument

By Justin Katz | December 2, 2021 |

Categorically denying a mother’s responsibility to her children means the utter destruction of human society at its very core.

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Politics This Week with John DePetro: PR Bumbling All Around

By Justin Katz | November 30, 2021 |

John and Justin discuss local, state, and national stories with which the messaging is going all wrong.