A recent column in The Economist magazine asking if America is dictator-proof got me to thinking if our constitutional guarantees are secure. Stated differently: Can the custodians of our constitutional norms be trusted to restrain a deliberate attempt to ignore, diminish or evade the ...
At least 18 states don't allow people to go about their streets wearing pointed Ku Klux Klan hoods. The white costumes serve the double purpose of racial intimidation and hiding the identities of the creeps inside them. Most of those anti-masking laws were passed early last century in response ...
Congressional Budget Office projections provide valuable insights into how a big chunk of your income is being spent and reveal the long-term consequences of our government's current fiscal policies — you may endure them, and your children most certainly will. Yet, like most other projections ...
In a glass pavilion, the tables sparkled, set for 500 guests at the White House state dinner for Kenyan President William Ruto. A guest of Kenyan descent didn't stay for dinner, President Joe Biden announced. "One just left: Barack," Biden noted. Washington lore says former President Barack ...
California now leads the nation in imposing dumb wage laws. The state just raised the hourly minimum wage for fast food workers to $20. Gov. Gavin Newsom said, "We saw the inequities. ... we had a responsibility to do more." Unions pushed for the higher minimum, and in Democrat-run states, ...
Democratic Sen. John Fetterman made artful use of a common expletive to highlight Harvard's by-now well-known fecklessness in declining to address its antisemitism problem, a problem thoroughly marbled throughout its faculty, student body and university infrastructure. The problem burst into ...
