A quarter century has passed since Robert Putnam released “Bowling Alone,” his heralded work on America’s decaying social fabric. The book was sobering at the time. Things are worse now: […]
Opinion
Saving the pill: SCOTUS averts disaster with mifepristone ruling
Last week, the nation dodged a bullet with the Supreme Court’s 9-0 decision tossing a lawsuit that had sought to end the decades-old FDA approval of the drug mifepristone, which […]
The Supreme Court’s role in our partisan polarization has been greatly exaggerated
Conventional wisdom suggests that the Supreme Court, like the country, is deeply divided along partisan and ideological lines. But this overlooks the court’s historic recent run of unanimous decisions and […]
How the little guys lose under Trump’s tax plan
The late Sen. John McCain didn’t much like Obamacare, but in 2018, the Arizona Republican pulled it out from under then-President Donald Trump’s hatchet. Why? Because McCain saw the “skinny […]
No taxes on tips?
Donald Trump stormed through Las Vegas recently, holding an outdoor rally Sunday at Sunset Park. To nobody’s surprise, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, who narrowly lost Nevada in both 2016 […]
Elon Musk allegations are a reminder that harassment is about power
by Sarah Green Carmichael Imagine you are completing the annual training module for preventing sexual harassment at work. How would you answer the following questions? You, a top executive, find […]
Pass a federal shield law
by Steven Roberts Sen. Mike Lee, a strong conservative from Utah, and Sen. Ron Wyden, an ardent progressive from Oregon, agree on very little. But they are primary co-sponsors of […]
A lesson from the Hunter verdict: Beware memoirs
Should you be so lucky as to have a publisher for your memoir, you’ll likely be pushed to make it as revealing as possible. Personal confessions — of, say, past […]
Biden’s Gaza pier is no more than pathetic symbolism
by Andreas Kluth The superpower’s engineers and soldiers waded into the waves lapping at the Mediterranean shoreline and tethered their pontoons to form a sort of pier, eventually to become […]
So what if Gen Z applicants bring parents to a job interview?
by LZ Granderson Bring your parent to school, bring your child to work, bring your mother to a job interview. That last one may stick out as odd, but it […]
