Stanley Kurtz

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  Apr 16, 2015

  Common Core Could Be a Problem for Hillary Clinton

  Which presidential candidate is most likely to be tripped up by their position on the Common Core? Jeb Bush comes to mind, of course. Yet the candidate whose support for Common Core could be most personally perilous—and most consequential for the larger 2016 race—is Hillary Clinton.

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  Mar 3, 2015

  The Lessons of Hillary Clinton's Secrecy

  We now know that Hillary Clinton evaded government record keeping and jeopardized national security by using a private email account while Secretary of State. Troubling as this incident is, it points to larger and more disturbing lessons about the woman who may become our next president.

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  Dec 8, 2014

  Hillary Clinton: Failed Co-President

  Hillary Clinton has plenty of White House experience. Unfortunately, it's experience at mucking things up.

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  Oct 2, 2014

  Time to Break the College Board's AP Testing Monopoly

  The College Board's decision to create a new, unprecedentedly detailed, and ideologically slanted framework for its AP U.S. History (APUSH) Exam has touched off a political and cultural firestorm. I and other critics have charged the College Board with building a strong leftward bias into its revised version of American history.

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  Sep 24, 2014

  Hillary Clinton: Left Ideologue or Clueless Millionaire?

  I'm amused when liberals like Slate's John Dickerson respond to the revelation of Hillary's fawning correspondence with Saul Alinsky by claiming that it's impossible to be both an out-of-touch super-rich person and a leftist ideologue. Hasn't anyone ever heard of George Soros, Tom Steyer, or Hollywood?

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  Sep 22, 2014

  Why Hillary's Alinsky Letters Matter

  Alana Goodman's revelation at the Washington Free Beacon of previously unknown correspondence between Hillary Clinton and Saul Alinsky shows that Clinton has not been honest about her far-left past. The lost Alinsky letters also remind us of what we ought to know but have forgotten,

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  Sep 9, 2014

  Why the College Board Demoted the Founders

  More recently, revisionist historians have developed a different answer to the question of what America's story is about. From their perspective, at the heart of our country's history—like the history of any other powerful nation—lies the pursuit of empire, of dominion over others. In this view, the formative American moment was the colonial assault on the Indians.

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  Aug 28, 2014

  Liberal News Outlets Defend the College Board on AP U.S. History

  Michael Hiltzik, a columnist for the Los Angeles Times has published a heated response to my piece on the intellectual and political background of the College Board's changes to the AP U.S. History Exam.

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  Jul 11, 2014

  New War Over U.S. History in High Schools

  Americans are only just now waking up to a quiet but devastatingly effective effort to replace the teaching of traditional American history in our high schools with a new, centrally controlled, and sharply left-leaning curriculum.