by Jonah Goldberg America blew it. I generally support special prosecutor Jack Smith’s indictments of Donald Trump. The classified documents case is open-and-shut, as far as I can tell. As […]
Opinion
It’s getting too hot for airplanes
by Mark Gongloff Lest you think air travel couldn’t possibly get more miserable, climate change is here to prove you wrong. Just as extreme heat makes people sluggish and unproductive […]
The amendment that never was — but could still be
This year marks the 100-year anniversary of the amendment that never was: the Equal Rights Amendment First introduced to Congress in 1923 on the heels of the 19th Amendment granting […]
Do meaningful coincidences exist?
by Jonathan Zimmerman The Chinese have an expression that I’ve always liked: “No coincidence, no story.” A story should contain some kind of strange or unexpected twist; if it doesn’t, […]
Correcting the pay for corrections officers
It has taken a while — one year to be exact — but the Justice administration and the Legislature have finally agreed on a comprehensive pay increase package aimed at […]
Congress should pass the PASS Act
Sen. Joe Manchin recently introduced the Protecting Athletes, Schools, and Sports (PASS) Act of 2023 with the help of Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) to standardize name, image and likeness (NIL) […]
U.S. education and the great white lies
by David Redman Recent battles over how to teach history in American schools have focused on views of America’s domestic racism, but that’s only one piece of the problem of […]
Privacy vs. safe streets a hard choice
I had a tough argument with a friend who was incensed that our local police had placed traffic cameras at major intersections. He felt that the authorities were running surveillance […]
We should embrace chances to speak up
Too often, we forget that there are ways to participate in government outside election season. For example — particularly on the local level — there are town halls, open houses […]
Bidenomics actually worked, but voters aren’t buying it
by Jonathan Bernstein Inflation is receding, unemployment is at or near record lows, US growth continues at a solid pace … and Americans are deeply pessimistic about the economy. More […]
