A confidential survey revealed their concerns about the Supreme Court’s promiscuous use of the shadow docket
Ronald Reagan
Posted inHigher Education
Student Loan Debt: What Went Wrong and How to Fix It
Student Loan Debt: From Educational Opportunity to Generational Grievance: The history of student loan debt shows how noble programs and soaring tuition have often left too many students underwater. Fortunately, there are ways to fix the problem.
Posted inPolitics
Defund the Left: Trump’s Cultural Warfare Explained
Previous Republican presidents tried to defund the left but Trump turned it into a Maoist purge.
Posted inPolitics
The Republican Party Is No Longer the Party of Tax Cuts
Donald Trump is poised to raise taxes on imported goods without coming close to offsetting them with other cuts.
Posted inBooks
An Abundance of Ambiguity
Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson argue that a world of plenty awaits us if we reform zoning and environmental laws and everyone moves to San Francisco. But that can’t be the whole plan, right?
Posted inPolitics
Donald Trump and the End of American Global Leadership
Once ‘the indispensable nation,’ the U.S. is now just another squabbling player in an unstable world
Posted inPolitics
As Ukraine Fights, Echoes of Historic Meetings in Yalta and Helsinki Abound
Some 80 years ago, Roosevelt and Churchill were at their meeting with Stalin. Thirty years later, the Helsinki Accords helped doom the Iron Curtain. Here’s what we can learn on their anniversaries.
Posted inNovember/December 2024
The Tyranny of the Welfare Queen
For decades, the conversation about social services in America has centered on a false and harmful stereotype about who deserves help.
Posted inPolitics
Three Unknown Data Points That Will Decide the Election
We don’t know the rate at which Republicans and Democrats will defect, how independents will break, or how early voting patterns will change
Posted inBooks
Can the 1980s Explain 2024?
The yuppies embodied the winning side of America’s deepening economic divide. Bruce Springsteen spoke for those left behind. Two new books consider what liberals can learn from the decade.
