If the Trump administration and the GOP Congress practice what they preach, states and localities will have far more policy room to maneuver than they had under President Obama.
The outcome of the presidential election puzzled many people. How could such a brash, offensive personality — who didn’t understand the nuances of conservatism, who spoke in politically incorrect tweets —win election to lead the world’s greatest nation? How could such a dark campaign bring us this? It started with a light bulb. In 2007,...
Democrats say Republicans should have refused to support their party’s presidential nominee because of his despicable personal behavior. Hypocrisy, anyone?
Some reporters make mistakes that aren’t very innocent. Others distort the information they’ve gathered to push agendas. But rarely do those who engage in such malpractice suffer any public embarrassment — and it’s rarer still that their employers face any monetary setback for publishing those errors. But that actually happened in October, when a jury awarded...
There is no doubt Barack Obama’s election to the presidency in 2008 was a watershed in America’s racial history. A Gallup poll of the time found one-third of all Americans believed it constituted the most important advance for blacks in a century. Today, that optimism makes the developments of the past eight years all the...
