WASHINGTON - Progressivism鈥檚 name connotes confidence in mankind鈥檚 ability (guided by progressives) to progress. Yet, progressivism often seems pessimistic. This encourages Americans鈥� low pain threshold and high capacity for complaining, traits unbecoming in a populace many of whose hardy ...
WASHINGTON - Time was, when the school year ended, parents worried about 鈥渟ummer learning loss.鈥� Nowadays, there is less learning to worry about losing.This is the 40th anniversary of a blue-ribbon commission鈥檚 鈥淎 Nation at Risk鈥� report that decried a 鈥渞ising tide of mediocrity鈥� ...
WASHINGTON 鈥� President Biden鈥檚 attempt to spend $430 billion through student loan forgiveness showed Trumpian insouciance regarding legality. By ruling 6-3 against it last week, the Supreme Court unremarkably buttressed the separation of powers by protecting Congress鈥檚 power of the ...
In the 231 years since its first ruling, the Supreme Court has never sown more confusion than in the 45 years since it first ruled on the subject of race-based decisions in university admissions. On Thursday, the court found Harvard and the University of North Carolina guilty of doing what the ...
WASHINGTON - At the pandemic鈥檚 beginning, members of Congress dispersed, and both parties鈥� leaders in the House of Representatives agreed, as rules permit, to pass the CARES Act without a quorum or roll call if no one objected. Thomas Massie objected to spending $2.1 trillion that ...
WASHINGTON 鈥� Because of Thursday鈥檚 Supreme Court blunder - an act of misplaced judicial restraint - the lives of some Indian children will be unnecessarily miserable, and sometimes shorter, than they would be without an excrescence on U.S. law called the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). ...