“America” is a continent – actually two of them – but it is also a set of ideas, or, better said, a philosophy for how a community can govern itself to maximize freedom and creativity. Every generation seems to need…
F. H. Buckley’s newest work, American Secession: The Looming Threat of National Breakup, is probably one of the most important nonfiction books of 2020. Written during the last year when Americans were more divided at any time in their national…
First, a word about how law and our legal system is supposed to work. We begin with two Latin words: stare decisis. The idea is that people need to know the rules. For example, before every baseball game begins, the umpires…
“How Much Damage Have Republicans Done in the States?” Gosh! Worlds of damage, you’d imagine, if you’re a typical client of the New York Times nursery school system, where more and more government is good and less and less government is…
Article II of the Constitution mandates the Electoral College for electing our President. November Presidential elections are managed by States and are indirect elections in which Presidential Electors are elected to represent their state and vote for President. With the…
In 2017 it seems particularly difficult to name a public policy issue on which a majority of Republicans agree with a majority of Democrats. But a Gallup poll taken in October shows 64 percent of Americans, including a slight majority…
The Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA) has gone nowhere in Congress. And yet it won’t go away, either. If RAWA were ever to pass Congress and become law, it would impose a one-size-fits-all ban on states legalizing online gaming….
Any resident of the DC-area has undoubtedly seen from afar or been in the new billion-dollar MGM National Harbor Casino. When I see it, I am reminded of how it was only a few decades ago that an overlapping array…
Justice Louis Brandeis noted that “a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country.” This notion of states as the laboratories…
For months, the pharmaceutical industry’s consistent disregard of consumers and bad press has seemed like a setup that was missing a punchline. Critics of the industry have been consistently frustrated as we wait for the other shoe to drop. These…