We are witnessing the abject failure of American foreign policy on major fronts. It may help to count the ways: the mismanagement of Iraq and rise of ISIS after the fall of Baghdad; Russia’s invasion of Georgia and acquisition of…
They say a good compromise is one in which nobody gets everything, everybody gets something, and nobody likes it. How do the disputing parties on the issue of assault rifle massacres find the common ground needed to agree on a…
“I claim the Red Planet for Red!” Those were Elon Musk’s ringing words when he set foot on Mars in 2047. Having gotten there first, Musk claimed the entire fourth planet for the Red Bloc, the conservative subdivision of the…
Golda Meir, leading Zionist and prime minister of Israel during the Yom Kippur War, observed that her country’s neighbors would choose terror and war over peace so long as “they hate us more than they love their children.” It was…
Prisoner rape is not a pleasant subject. It seems the only time it is mentioned is as a joke on late-night TV, although it is not a joke. Sexual abuse in our prisons and jails is rampant. It is a…
Jury duty gets a bad rap and for good reason: It’s time consuming, disruptive, and often means being away from seemingly more important things. But juries are critical to the American legal system and to the concept of justice in…
Few residents of Bridgeport, Connecticut — weary of a long history of election irregularities involving absentee ballots — were surprised to see local news surveillance videos that appeared to show a female making multiple early morning trips on Sept. 5th…
The American summer of strikes is slowly growing to include the fall. On Wednesday morning, 75,000 nurses, medical technicians, and other health care workers employed by Kaiser Permanente went to picket lines instead of to work in hospitals and at…
Earlier this month, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced, with great fanfare, that he is implementing “automatic voter registration” in the Keystone State. As has been typical with Shapiro’s administration, the move is more bluster than bite. Shapiro’s friends at the…
