Over the last 100 years, Americans have engaged in a long debate about the role of markets and the welfare state. Republicans favored a limite…
I recall several presidential elections ago, an elementary school teacher wrote a newspaper column about a mock election he held in his class.
Who could have imagined back in March, when the coronavirus first struck in the United States, that eight months later we would still be feeli…
If I am starting to sound like a broken record talking about COVID-19, good; not going to apologize.
Judge Amy Coney Barrett, destined to be the next member of the U.S. Supreme Court, has characterized her approach to constitutional interpreta…
The nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court has generated predictable partisan reactions. Democrats warn Barrett will …
We devote a lot of mental energy to things that are going wrong or could go wrong. It's human nature. As the sociobiologists teach us, our anc…
Amy Coney Barrett, President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, is an "originalist." Given that originalism is a term coined by lawyers, it should…
This pivotal moment isn’t the result of four years of Donald Trump. It’s the culmination of 50 years of social decay.
It turns out that the advice Dr. Leo Marvin (Richard Dreyfuss) gave Bob Wiley (Bill Murray) in the 1991 hit movie “What about Bob?” was more t…
Who qualifies as a journalist?
History confirms the keen insight of James Madison’s warning in No. 51 of the Federalist Papers that the greatest challenge confronting the re…
New York City is becoming an economic basket case.
Are you afraid of what will happen on Election Day? I sure am. I fear that if the election for president doesn’t go the way I want, this count…
Back in February it seemed as if we were about to have one of the most ideologically polarized elections in American history. President Donald…
For a variety of reasons, Measure 1 doubling the size of the Board of Higher Education is a bad idea. Four management organizations say that e…
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, has been tweeting some interesting things.
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All civics classes should begin with the first principle of American Constitutionalism: Government has only that power granted to it by the Co…
The first thing to say is simple: Best wishes to President Donald Trump and the first lady for a speedy recovery from COVID-19.
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We’re on track to kill hundreds more North Dakotans by the end of 2020 if we don’t change our behavior. Refusing to use masks in public is par…
President Donald Trump just rolled out his new "Black Economic Empowerment Platinum Plan."
Robert Baden-Powell, father of the scouting movement, is credited with the quote, “Leave this world a little better than you found it.”
I try to eat a balanced diet, go to the gym every once in a while, get enough sleep at night, and visit the clinic for yearly checkups. That s…
The nationwide celebration of the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment reminds us of an old, familiar lesson about Amer…
"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them, I have others." -- Groucho Marx
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