Minnesota Sued Over Mail-In Ballot Ruling
Republicans are challenging a move by Minnesota election officials to allow ballots to be counted past Election Day even if they are not postmarked. State representative Eric Lucero (R.) and…
The Case for Urban Charter Schooling
A decade ago, the charter-school movement was moving from strength to strength. As student enrollment surged and new schools opened in cities across the country, America’s first black president provided…
To Never-Trumpers: Now is the time!
The 45th President of the United States is opposed by several identifiable groups of people. True believers There are those who believe unquestionably the portrait of an evil man whose character…
Twitter Suspends True the Vote’s Account, Claims Military Ballot Deadline Tweet Violates Rules
Twitter, the social media giant that dominates online chatter, suspended Friday the account of the pro-ballot integrity group “True the Vote,” after alleging the group’s tweets about military ballots and…
Will ‘Silent’ Trump Supporters Swing Election?
With less than two months to go until the election former Vice President Joe Biden’s once considerable lead over Donald J. Trump appears to be vanishing. Polls are showing the…
The Dialectic of Woke
Last week a few sharp-eyed members of the audience for Disney’s live-action remake of Mulan noticed something ugly in the credits. The film’s producers thanked, among others, the publicity department of the “CPC…
On 9/11, We Failed to Remember
“Never forget.” That’s what we all said nearly twenty years ago while struggling to cope with our grief. Since the days of George Washington, we’d thought of ourselves as more…
Biden: ‘Firmly Planted to the Left’
Former Vice President Joe Biden, who’s deliberately projecting a moderate image in his campaign against President Donald J. Trump, was accused Monday of being “firmly planted to the left” by Republican National…
Secretary Of Education Betsy DeVos Issues Final Rule Protecting Religious Liberty On College Campuses
The Department of Education published a final rule Wednesday that expands religious liberty protections on college campuses and allows DOE to suspend or cut federal funding from colleges that violate the First…
Where The World Is Heading To?
Even before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, the political, economic, financial, cultural, and moral health of the world have been quite unsettling. Most importantly, for centuries there has existed a…
Cancel Culture Comes to Cronkite
Walter Cronkite said on receiving a global-governance award in 1999: “I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do.” Today, those who attend…
The Charter School Advantage
Public charter schools were once viewed as a nonpartisan compromise between vouchers for private schools and no choice at all. Not now. In its 2020 national platform, the Democratic Party…
Cohen’s Hit on Trump Misses in a Big Way
Michael Cohen seems to believe his former boss threw him under the bus. If he did, it was only because the man called Donald J. Trump’s one-time “fixer” was standing…
The Belarus Uprising: A Repeat of Ukraine?
America’s great power competitors, China and Russia, are pushing back against the free world. China’s arc stretches from Hong Kong and the South China Sea through the Himalaya border with…
Workers’rights in the 21st century: Unions and Conscious Capitalism
My first experience with a union came when I represented the newsroom’s intention to hold a vote for a union to the publisher of a national weekly newspaper. I had…