If you are a graduate of Yale University, you can vote every spring for a member of the Yale Corporation, which selects the school's president. However, you can only participate if you vote for one of the two candidates nominated by the Alumni Fellow Nominating Committee, a group of university ...
A left-wing legal group with the misleading name Democracy Forward is proving to be the biggest obstacle to translating President Donald Trump's massive election victory into real change. The group's mission is to thwart the decisions of the 77 million voters who supported Trump for ...
Trump is overplaying his hand. Not just by usurping the powers of Congress and ignoring Supreme Court rulings. Not just abducting people who are legally in the United States but have put their name to opinion pieces Trump doesn't like and trucking them off to "detention" facilities. Not just ...
As the late senator from Washington state, Warren Magnuson, who served for more than 30 years in Congress, once said, "All that each industry seeks is a fair advantage over its rivals." Wilt Chamberlain had a fair advantage on the basketball court because he stood 7-foot-1. It allowed him to score 100 points in a single game. The Trump 2.0 tax bill now moving through Congress should establish a fair advantage for U.S. companies. Tariffs are, of course, Donald Trump's retaliatory stick to stop foreign countries from discriminating against goods and services made in America. Everything ...
No sooner had the first American pope been selected Thursday than a modern tradition unfolded: the scrubbing of Robert Francis Prevost’s X feed. Previously a little-known cardinal from the Chicago area, Prevost was selected by his brother cardinals after several rounds of voting to lead the world’s 1.4 billion Catholics. He took the name of Leo XIV (thus forgoing the chance to be history’s first Pope Bob). His selection in the pomp of a Vatican conclave was a surprise not only because it was unprecedented. It had also been widely assumed that due to the global unpopularity of ...
Political theater extends back to the Greeks. William Shakespeare wrote about politics in "Coriolanus" and other plays. A personal favorite of mine was "Fiorello!", a 1959 musical about New York City Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia. What happened in Newark last week was political theater at its ...
