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Ellie Gardey Holmes

Ellie Gardey Holmes is Reporter and Associate Editor at The American Spectator. She is the author of Newsom Unleashed: The Progressive Lust for Unbridled Power. She is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, where she studied political science, philosophy, and journalism. Ellie has previously written for the Daily Caller, College Fix, and Irish Rover. She is originally from Michigan. Follow her on X at @EllieGardey. Contact her at eholmes@spectator.org.
by and | Jun 14, 2025

Southern Baptists voted at the annual Southern Baptist Convention on a measure to support the overturning of Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court decision that said there is a right to same-sex marriage. (READ MORE: To Its Eternal Shame, the…

by and | Jun 13, 2025

Despite the Trump administration’s pushback on DEI initiatives, companies are still trying to integrate them through subtle means. (READ MORE: This ‘Pride Month,’ We’ll Find Out If DEI Is Really Dead)  Join Ellie Gardey Holmes and Lyrah Margo on this…

by | Jun 13, 2025

Gavin Newsom has for years denied having any desire to run for the presidency of the United States in the most adamant of terms. “Yeah, I mean, I have sub-zero interest,” he said last year, before adding, “It’s not even…

by | Jun 6, 2025

HBO went all-out for its adaptation of the wildly successful and critically acclaimed video game The Last of Us. For the first season, the network threw a $73 million budget at the project, an amount that exceeds the budget given…

by and | Jun 3, 2025

This year’s Pride celebrations are looking dismal for the LGBTQ community, as fewer Americans support the legality and morality of same-sex marriage and transgender ideology. (READ MORE: This ‘Pride Month,’ We’ll Find Out If DEI Is Really Dead) On this episode…

by and | Jun 2, 2025

The brightest minds in Silicon Valley are relying on psychedelics (like ayahuasca) to reevaluate their lives, alleviate stress, and discover spirituality. The growing use of mind-altering drugs has led these entrepreneurs to seek out therapy in order to deal with…

by | May 30, 2025

This week, during a new episode of her podcast, Michelle Obama put forward a perspective on the female reproductive system that can only be described as odd. “The least” of what the female reproductive system does, Obama said, “is produce…

by | May 29, 2025

Being a professor at an elite university can make a person believe that he or she has a special status over regular people. For Francesca Gino, formerly a professor at Harvard Business School, her status as a professor gave her…

by and | May 27, 2025

As a mother of four children, celebrity Kourtney Kardashian challenged the status quo on education by asking, “Why do kids f*cking go to school? Truly, it’s so dated.” Kardashian appeared on her sister Khloé Kardashian’s podcast, Khloé in Wonder Land,…

by and | May 26, 2025

A Do No Harm analysis into the Southern Illinois School of Medicine admissions revealed that black and Hispanic students with lower average GPA and MCAT scores than white and Asian students are being accepted. These findings spark concern into the…

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