Getting rid of Roe v. Wade was sold as a sensible and mollifying approach to the abortion controversy. It would let each state ban or codify a right to abortion in accordance with local culture. This assumed that the end of a constitutional right to abortion was the victory after which ...
Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle recently wrote that the best argument made in favor of limiting the size of the stimulus during the Great Recession — part of a larger conversation about austerity — was one of ethos. "We weren't spending the money in theory," she wrote, "or in 1945, ...
I left the house at high noon. Outdoors, Washington dressed in light spring green with splashes of pink cherry trees. The sun shone, no cloud cover. We earthlings had our eyes on the sky, from Texas to Maine. A solar eclipse was landing. That was the path of "totality," a harmonic convergence ...
The Labor Department just imposed 300 pages of new regulations to reclassify many individual contractors as payroll employees. CNBC claims this could help freelancers "recover lost wages." That's just nonsense. The new rules will make it harder for some freelancers to support a family. My ...
New York City, Denver, Chicago and other cities are urgently recruiting bilingual education teachers as the children of migrants enroll in school. Bilingual ed will doom most of these kids to failure. All too often it's an educational ghetto, producing dropouts who can't speak English and face ...
My working life is housed within a kind of carnival of scientists. Take, for example, Carie, often seen from a distance walking off into the horizon and wading into Great Salt Lake to visit and check in on specimens. Part rock and part goo, the microbiological colonies she studies reside in ...
They call themselves the "PBS NewsHour," but if you watch them routinely, you might call them the "PBS Opposition Research Hour." They often sound like a Democrat consulting firm as they analyze Donald Trump as a dangerously extreme figure. Then they can turn around and proclaim that President ...
What is cultural identity and why is it so important? We're grappling with that question in the United States, and the implications of our national culture wars are being felt in every sector — from politics to labor to entertainment. The latest example of this intensifying strife came ...
What were they thinking? Did President Joe Biden and the folks who put together his immigration policy imagine the voting public would celebrate policies that resulted in a record-high number of migration encounters — more than three-quarters of a million — in the usually low-immigration ...
During the 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton was criticized for her use of the word "superpredators" back in 1996. Some on the left laid into her, accusing Clinton of racism. Meanwhile, her opponent, Donald Trump, trying to sucker leftist Bernie Sanders voters into not voting for ...
