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R. Shep Melnick is the Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. Professor of American Politics at Boston College and author of a forthcoming book on Title IX.
An argument for restraining overreach in the Office for Civil Rights of the Department of Education
The most promising ways to make America’s streets safer unsettle ideologues on both sides. Maybe that’s why we aren’t pursuing them.
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The president’s words on Cuba, the next nation he’s casing for foreign intervention, sound all too familiar.
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Any attempt by the president to unilaterally withdraw from the NATO treaty violates U.S. law.
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We’re depleting our big, expensive, Cold War-inspired defensive weapons on Iran’s cheap drones, and if Tehran expands its underwater drone program, look out.
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One thing it can do is chronicle how women, from ordinary citizens to Martha Washington, preserved their communities’ past.
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Its rebuke of Trump tariffs might mean serious problems for other Trump initiatives. Much depends on the Court’s internal fight over the “major questions doctrine.”
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