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HILL: What’s Next?
Democrats take back Congress. Republicans add a couple of seats to their majority in the U.S. Senate. Donald Trump stays in the White House. What happens next for 2019 and 2020? We have seen divided […]
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DILLINGHAM: Somewhere to learn
When you think of a school, strip malls and corporate office buildings aren’t the first images that come to mind. Yet for many public charter schools in North Carolina, that’s the only choice for facilities […]
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HILL: The Silent Majority, Chicago 1968 and mob rule
“The great majority of Americans are neither radicals nor reactionaries. They are middle-of-the-road folks who own their own homes and work hard and would like to have the government get back to its old habits […]
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HILL: Cut all the red tape out of the federal budget
Until 1925, the federal government used to wrap official federal documents in red tape. It made things look “official,” borrowing from regal Spanish and British traditions of long ago. President Calvin Coolidge and his budget […]
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WILLIAMS: University Corruption
I’m thankful that increasing attention is being paid to the dire state of higher education in our country. Heather Mac Donald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, has just published “The Diversity Delusion.” Its subtitle […]
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BARONE: The air has seeped out of the Russia-collusion balloon
“I did not, and of course I looked for it, looked for it hard.” That was Bob Woodward, promoting his book on the Trump White House, “Fear,” replying to talk radio host and columnist Hugh […]
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BOZELL & GRAHAM: Anita Hill, the Janet Cooke of sexual harassment
Anita Hill, perennially painted as the “Rosa Parks of sexual harassment” by the national press, is back on the scene as the media push the unproven teenage-groping accusations against Brett Kavanaugh. The New York Times […]
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HILL: What If Hillary Had Won?
Where would we be today? We would still be languishing in the throes of the economic malaise we endured for eight long years under President Barack Obama. The same policies that never produced more than […]
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WILLIAMS: Reasoning about race
So much of our reasoning about race is both emotional and faulty. In ordinary, as well as professional, conversation, we use terms such as discrimination, prejudice, racial preferences and racism interchangeably, as if they referred […]
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HILL: Believe in something. Even if it means staying anonymous #JustSignIt
How odd was it that in the same week Nike introduced its “Believe in something. Even if it means sacrificing everything” #JustDoIt campaign, the vaunted New York Times would publish an anonymous op-ed piece about […]