Obama’s Longest Con Was on Young People: POTUS Oversees 36% Increase in Youth Misery Index Since 2009
Obama’s Longest Con Was on Young People: POTUS Oversees 36% Increase in Youth Misery Index Since 2009 Figure Spikes to Record High in 2017 The Youth Misery Index (YMI), a figure calculated annually by Young America’s Foundation, spiked to a record high of 113.4 in early 2017, up from 109.9 last January, and 83.5 in 2009 when […]
Cliches of Progressivism: It is Essential to Embrace Intersectionality
Cliches of Progressivism: It is Essential to Embrace Intersectionality Gender scholar bell hooks* once complained that audiences laugh when she describes the United States an “imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy.” That laughter, she said, was a “weapon of patriarchal terrorism.” But that was 14 years ago. Today, at least on the college campus, the terrorizing laughter […]
YAF Leaders Named to Newsmax 30 Under 30 List
YAF Leaders Named to Newsmax 30 Under 30 List This week Newsmax named YAF national chairman Grant Strobl, YAF alumna Katie Pavlich, and YAF alum Adi Sathi to its list of the “30 Most Influential Republicans Under 30.” This is yet another indication of YAF’s powerful influence in the Conservative Movement. Grant, who became YAF national chairman last […]
UCF Encourages Students to Tour ‘Tunnel of Oppression’
UCF Encourages Students to Tour ‘Tunnel of Oppression’ As part of its so-called “Social Justice Week, ” the University of Central Florida (UCF) plans to host events with hilarious titles ranging from the “Tunnel of Oppression,” to “#Triggered Racial Battle Fatigue,” to “Undocumented & Uncertain” later this month. The “Tunnel of Oppression,” set to occur on January 27, is described on […]
Announcing the Release of YAF’s Latest Book: Igniting a Movement
Announcing the Release of YAF’s Latest Book: Igniting a Movement Young America’s Foundation is excited to announce the release of a new book that underscores the impact young conservatives have made in building our Movement. Young Americans for Freedom: Igniting a Movement by longtime Foundation leader Wayne Thorburn is a compelling history of the accomplishments […]
UW Libs’ Anti-YAF Petition Fails Spectacularly
Late last month, liberals at the University of Wisconsin- Madison slapped together a pathetic petition asking the school to denounce its Young Americans for Freedom chapter for hosting a hugely successful lecture by Ben Shapiro that drew hundreds of attendees. The petition, drafted by the so-called “Student Coalition for Progress,” strung together a strange mix […]
Forbes Follows Up On YAF 9/11: Never Forget Project at Occidental
Forbes Follows Up On YAF 9/11: Never Forget Project at Occidental In an article published Saturday night, Forbes followed up on the widely-covered destruction of Occidental College’s 9/11: Never Forget memorial that occurred last September. After the school’s campus conservative club participated in Young America’s Foundation’s iconic 9/11: Never Forget Project by placing one American flag […]
Chapter of the Month: DePaul University YAF
In November, Depaul University Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) courageously took a stand for free speech on their campus. For their bold activism and commitment to the advancement of free speech, DePaul YAF has been named November Chapter of the Month. Over the summer, DePaul YAF applied for funding and a room reservation to host Ben Shapiro. […]
Top 10 PC Campus Offenses of 2016
Top 10 PC Campus Offenses of 2016 College campuses descended further into politically correct madness in 2016, drawing constant attention to the increasingly bizarre behavior of politically correct administrators, professors, and students across the country. Through it all, Young America’s Foundation, and its chapter affiliate Young Americans for Freedom, empowered thousands of conservative students to fight back […]
Wisconsin First Lady Tonette Walker Named to Reagan Ranch Board of Governors
Wisconsin First Lady Tonette Walker Named to Reagan Ranch Board of Governors RESTON, VA— Young America’s Foundation is honored to announce that Wisconsin’s first lady, Tonette Walker, has been named to the Reagan Ranch Board of Governors. Mrs. Walker first visited the Reagan Ranch with her husband, Governor Scott Walker, in 2011. Since then, Mrs. Walker […]
Leftists Petition UW-Madison to Revoke YAF’s Charter Over Shapiro Lecture
Leftists Petition UW-Madison to Revoke YAF’s Charter Over Shapiro Lecture Young Americans for Freedom at the University of Wisconsin (UW YAF) is the target of a bizarre new petition drafted by disgruntled leftists who are asking the university to revoke the club’s charter. The petition, which was written by the so-called “Student Coalition for Progress,” argues […]
High School Students Targeted by Leftist Alumni
Students working to start a Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter at Mary Institute and Saint Louis Country Day School (MICDS) are under fire after documenting their struggles to promote conservative ideas on campus. Earlier this month, an MICDS student named Rose wrote an articulate and respectful letter to her principal, outlining numerous different examples of […]
UPDATED: 28 Yeshiva Profs Slam Shapiro For Sharing Biological Facts
28 Yeshiva Profs Slam Shapiro For Sharing Biological Facts UPDATED 12/12 7:00 PM ET: The president of Yeshiva University also issued a statement of solidarity with the professors Monday evening, writing to “echo” their concerns about Shapiro. It’s unfortunate the president chose not to reaffirm his support for the hundreds of Yeshiva students who respectfully supported […]
15,000 Young People Learned About Free Enterprise Today Thanks to Forbes, YAF, LU
We have amazing news. Wednesday morning, a massive crowd of 15,000 college students packed into Liberty University’s (LU) Fall Convocation to learn about free enterprise directly from Steve Forbes. That’s right– 15,000 young people. The lecture was sponsored in large part by Young America’s Foundation’s Steve and Janice Shengold Advancing Freedom Lecture Series. It’s critical […]
New YAF Booklet Puts Intellectual Ammunition to Fight for Free Speech in Your Pocket
New YAF Booklet Puts Intellectual Ammunition to Fight for Free Speech in Your Pocket Young America’s Foundation leads the Conservative Youth Movement in equipping students with the resources they need to fight for free speech on campus. Now YAF is adding another resource to the conservative students activist’s toolkit– our concise yet substantive pamphlet, “How Universities Violate Your […]
Samford U Not Off the Hook
After Young America’s Foundation exposed the school’s resistance to sanctioning a Young Americans for Freedom chapter, Samford University president Andy Westmoreland issued a response to the viral news coverage of the story. Westmoreland referred to the reports as “misrepresentations” of his faculty’s actions because the school did not “reject” the chapter, it only deferred its application. […]
The Dirty Dozen: YAF Names America’s Most Bizarre and Politically Correct College Courses of 2016-2017
The Dirty Dozen: YAF Names America’s Most Bizarre and Politically Correct College Courses of 2016-2017 RESTON, VA— As student debt soars—averaging $37,000 for graduates in 2016—today’s college students are studying transgender Latina immigration, ecofeminism, gender and food politics, and more. Young America’s Foundation’s Dirty Dozen list highlights the most bizarre and concerning instances of leftist activism […]
Cornell Protestors Target Santorum, Receive Perfect Lesson on Tolerance
Wednesday night a group of protestors attempted to derail Senator Rick Santorum’s YAF-sponsored lecture at Cornell University, repeatedly screaming from the audience in an effort to disrupt his remarks. A packed crowd of 550 people attended the lecture, but the small group of protestors did everything they could to prevent their peers from hearing Senator Santorum’s speech. Disruptions started during […]
Alabany Profs Ask Students to Sign Petition Urging Noncompliance with ICE
Alabany Profs Ask Students to Sign Petition Urging Noncompliance with ICE Earlier this week a group of four professors at the University of Albany circulated a petition to students demanding the school declare itself a sanctuary campus and “[refuse] to comply with ICE officials beyond what is minimally required by the law.” In an email sent Monday to students listed […]
Catholic Saint Mary’s Embraces Post-Election Leftism
Catholic Saint Mary’s Embraces Post-Election Leftism By Clare McKinney Saint Mary’s College, an all women’s Catholic institution in Notre Dame, Indiana, promises students the mission of preparing women for the real world, but many students are wondering if the administration is holding true to that commitment or instead making extraordinary accommodations for leftists. This November, […]
Samford Blocks YAF Chapter for ‘Inflammatory’ Sharon Statement
Samford Blocks YAF Chapter for ‘Inflammatory’ Sharon Statement Officials at Samford University in Alabama rejected a group of conservative students’ efforts to start a Young Americans for Freedom (YAF) chapter because the Sharon Statement, YAF’s founding document, contains “inflammatory” language towards the school’s communist club. Upon further investigation, the conservative students discovered the school does not even appear to […]
Celebrating Fidel Castro’s Death
Celebrating Fidel Castro’s Death By Humberto Fontova Fidel Castro jailed and tortured political prisoners at a higher rate than Stalin during the Great Terror. He murdered more Cubans in his first three years in power than Hitler murdered Germans during his first six. Fidel Castro shattered — through mass-executions, mass-jailings, mass larceny and exile — […]
Chicago Tribune Backs YAF
On Thursday, November 17, the Editorial Board of the Chicago Tribune published an op-ed slamming DePaul University for its treatment of Ben Shapiro, siding with the school’s YAF chapter who organized the event in question (which was sponsored in full by Young America’s Foundation). Earlier in the week, DePaul turned Ben Shapiro away from attending a […]
How to Attend a Conservative Lecture at DePaul
DePaul University’s decision to threaten Ben Shapiro with arrest for attempting to attend a YAF lecture by Christina Hoff Sommers on campus Tuesday night made headlines across the country this week. But it wasn’t just difficult for Ben to attend the lecture– it was difficult for everyone, even DePaul’s own students. In order to simply […]
