by Noah Feldman Friends, Romans, countrymen, law professors: Please stop telling Justice Stephen Breyer to retire. Yes, Breyer is a (healthy) 81. Yes, the Democratic Senate majority […]
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More Americans should leave home
by Joel Kotkin America has been lazily divided by pundits into red and blue states, as if there weren’t constant movement of people between them. Fortunately, reality […]
Centrist senators must save Equality Act
by the Rev. Marian Edmonds-Allen and Derek Monson Another year, another Congress, another attempt to enact LGBTQ+ equality legislation that has no hope of succeeding. If LGBTQ+ […]
Border influx intrudes on Biden’s victory lap for ARP
by Michael Smolens Alternate partisan political realities are emerging that could go a long way toward shaping next year’s congressional campaigns. President Joe Biden and Democrats are […]
Killing Asian women isn’t a hate crime?
by Mary McNamara If anyone was still “uneducated” about the insidious and brutal nature of racism in this country, the recent contemptible slaughter of eight people, including […]
Misinformation about COVID-19 bill
by Jay Ambrose Misinformation could ruin America. It afflicts us almost daily, could threaten our future and we have already seen some of the worst of it, […]
Can I get rid of my landline yet?
by Nicholas Goldberg Am I the last person in America with a landline? I don’t know what I pay for it. I don’t know who I pay […]
Budget ‘death spiral’ increasing likely
by Chris Reed “The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public’s money,” Alexis de Tocqueville supposedly […]
Don’t raise taxes to fund infrastructure
by Noah Smith With the COVID-19 relief bill behind us, attention is turning to infrastructure — a long-standing priority for President Joe Biden’s economic recovery program. A […]
Can’t have democracy without a free press
by Gene Policinski There’s a reason we need a free press, despite its faults and foibles: Democracy won’t work without it. The grand experiment in self-governance that […]
