Are American educators preparing students to help keep this country free? It’s almost impossible to be exuberant by that prospect after being bombarded with talk of “safe spaces” or simply the rejection of long-established freedoms […]
Based on my conversations with friends and family, I believe the vast majority of our state’s citizens confront the judicial part of the ballot with minimal information or information of a slanted, specious nature.In […]
Donald Trump says he wants to unfetter the American economy, and during the campaign he rightly identified over-regulation as a constraint on capital formation, business, hiring, and consumers. While the news media usually focused on […]
Maybe now when I tell you that we’re not in a post-racial society, you’ll pay attention, OK?The latest evidence includes an intriguing debate over how to identify the loosely organized but increasingly prominent alt-right movement.Should […]
I’m a Donald Trump optimist. Like the many who don’t support him, I am alarmed that he won. But I don’t believe he will be as bad as the worst fears. It’s a very modest […]
One of the refreshing things about an impending Trump presidency is the opportunity to gore some of Washington’s sacred special-interest oxen. If Trump truly values ordinary Americans over entrenched elites, one of the first things […]
In October, Congress passed the well-intentioned Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act (JASTA) with overwhelming bipartisan support and then over-rode President Obama’s veto. JASTA narrows the scope of the legal doctrine of foreign sovereign immunity. […]
In the wake of Hurricane Matthew in the east, and now wildfires in the west, North Carolina is fighting natural disasters on two fronts. “Geographic areas are experiencing major incidents which have the potential to […]
Like other friends and fans of Gwen Ifill, I did not expect to be talking about her in the past tense. Not this soon.The groundbreaking, award-winning “PBS NewsHour” co-anchor died Nov. 14 of endometrial cancer, […]
THE SPECTACLE of young people protesting the presidential election after Nov. 8 was heartening, in some ways. Some commentators have called the “millennials” disconnected and aloof from politics; but here they were getting out in […]
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