In his inaugural address, President Trump made a solemn promise: “The forgotten men and women of this Nation will be forgotten no more.” Those words ring true today and are directly reflected in the administration’s ...
It’s election season, so politicians are naturally going to spout off some pretty weird proposals. Given what voters believe, it’s not possible for every proposal to be useful and still appeal to us for our ...
As then‐Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes put it in an influential letter that helped sink Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1937 scheme to add justices, “There would be more judges to hear, more judges to confer, more judges to ...
The pre- and post-debate spin about Wednesday’s clash of vice-presidential candidates from the left was that it’s merely a sideshow. They say the appearance of rhetorical norms is an illusion with Donald Trump at the ...
Despite Sen. Kamala Harris’ repeated debate caterwauling about the supposedly bad economy right now, President Trump has the much better case to make than Harris’ running mate, Joe Biden. Here is the key fact: RIght ...
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo can’t stand to be second best at anything, so this week, he’s taking on New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio to see who can more effectively alienate Jewish New ...
Tuesday night’s presidential debate—the first between Donald Trump and Joe Biden—began with a question about the Supreme Court, not surprisingly given the pending nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett. President Trump has been transparent on ...
First as a candidate and then in the early days of his tenure, President Barack Obama proposed big changes for the U.S. healthcare system. They mostly consisted of slogans and promises, lacking much specificity as ...
Global warming is a problem. There are a lot of forest fires in California this year. And there is a plausible mechanism (dead or dried trees) that could connect the one idea with another. Therefore, ...
In the eyes of many in the media, high COVID-19 numbers in minority and immigrant communities are a product of America’s systemic racism and an economic regime that privileges profits over the well-being of nonwhite ...