LawCommentary
Your Right to Vote Is Sacred. Don’t Give It Up.
The right to vote is among the most sacred rights we have as Americans. It is fundamental to our democracy. I’m old enough to remember… Read More
LawCommentary
The right to vote is among the most sacred rights we have as Americans. It is fundamental to our democracy. I’m old enough to remember… Read More
EducationCommentary
For many children living in the District of Columbia, the new school year begins much like the last one ended—at home. The unexpected onset of… Read More
SocietyCommentary
A frightening 70% of millennials say they would back a socialist candidate for office. Today, we are seeing many socialist ideas gaining traction, such as… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Highly paid consultants spouting toxic racist concepts meant to transform society, and ignobly masking them as “anti-racism” training, are to be shown the door of… Read More
EnergyNews
Before expanding a moratorium on offshore drilling Tuesday near the coasts of Florida, South Carolina, and Georgia, President Donald Trump invoked the legacy of another… Read More
InternationalCommentary
“One evening in late June, gunmen stormed a village in northern Burkina Faso,” the The Washington Post reported, “and ordered people who had been chatting outside to… Read More
LawCommentary
It’s becoming increasingly clear that we should conduct the November election in as normal a manner as possible. We should have as many of our… Read More
Economy Analysis
Retail plays a significant role within the nation’s economic health. About 17 million Americans work for brick-and-mortar stores, according to Abby Jagoda, vice president of… Read More
EducationCommentary
Six months into the pandemic, some traditions will still not be upset by a virus. As approximately half of K-12 schools are only offering online… Read More
EconomyNews
Under President Donald Trump’s leadership, the government has reduced air pollution by 7%, declared Superfund sites safe again at a record pace, and directed tens… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s most recent weekly provisional mortality update has caused a stir. It says: For 6% of deaths [involving COVID-19],… Read More
SocietyCommentary
California is proving it’s more authoritarian than ever. As many other states have reopened in stages, California officials have opened the Golden State, too—except they… Read More
SocietyCommentary
If much of the dire rhetoric behind America’s moment of racial reckoning seems from an oppressive world of a half-century ago, that’s because it comes… Read More
PoliticsNews
Dozens of news outlets published content that either justified or explained away rioting and looting in the initial weeks of unrest following the police custody… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in April issued guidance for all Americans, urging them to wear cloth face masks in public to help… Read More
SocietyNews
Violent riots and looting have spread like an infectious disease across America in the aftermath of the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis on May… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
A recent article in The Washington Post’s Outlook section, “What’s the Worst That Could Happen?”—which explores various potential outcomes of the 2020 presidential election—found that… Read More
PoliticsNews
San Francisco salon owner Erica Kious said Thursday that it is “beyond shameful” for Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi to accuse Kious of… Read More
EconomyCommentary
The unemployment rate fell by 1.8 percentage points to 8.4% as the economy added 1.4 million jobs in August, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported… Read More
SocietyAnalysis
Americans are buying guns at a record pace. A surprising number of the sales are from first-time firearm owners, says Stephen Gutowski, a reporter at… Read More
SocietyNews
RALEIGH, North Carolina—The Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling in June striking down a Louisiana law regulating abortion clinics is proof of what’s at stake with the… Read More
Health CareCommentary
A stream of apocalyptic predictions and strained conspiracy theories have turned the once-sleepy world of U.S. Postal Service operations into front-page news. Lawmakers focused on… Read More
LawCommentary
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser can’t decide what she wants. A year ago, she advocated for criminal justice measures that even The Washington Post’s editorial board… Read More
SocietyAnalysis
American civil society is facing a serious domestic threat: Marriage is declining and family stability with it. Between 1962 and 2019, the percentage of women… Read More
Health CareCommentary
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought out political power trips like America has never seen before. Governors and mayors have seized “emergency powers” that effectively shut… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
The lawsuit filed last week by New York State Attorney General Letitia James against the U.S. Postal Service reads more like a 64-page list of… Read More
SocietyNews
Gabe Johnson, an African American Marine Corps veteran, was lying in bed counting the number of explosions he could hear from his downtown Portland, Oregon,… Read More
Health CareCommentary
When the levees broke under Hurricane Katrina, the Army Corps of Engineers was roasted for spending billions and still failing to protect Americans. So where’s… Read More
SocietyCommentary
I have returned with some regularity over the years to compare what is going on in our country today to what was going on in… Read More
PoliticsCommentary
Reacting to the shooting of a black man by a white Kenosha, Wisconsin, cop, a tearful Doc Rivers, the black NBA Los Angeles Clippers coach,… Read More