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Trump, Biden and a fight for the heart

As an election year dawns, Republicans and Democrats should stop to reflect on why our politics seems so stagnant. No one expects President Joe Biden to earn a mandate even if he wins reelection; it won’t be a victory for Biden so much as a defeat for Donald Trump. Progressives don’t ...

Biden not ‘faithfully executing’ the law

The oath all presidents take includes a promise to “faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Among other things this means upholding the laws of the United ...

Choosing that ‘Good Part’ in 2024

As 2023 draws to a close, one of the things that I improved this year was my time management. I was much better organized with my work schedule in terms of outside writing projects, and I provided additional time to give my students more constructive feedback on their research essays. I was ...

Plans begin to investigate use of taxpayers’ dollars

It emerged over the weekend that the House Foreign Affairs Committee plans to investigate the use of American taxpayers’ dollars to fund the Murder, Inc. that is Hamas. With the revelations that billions of donor dollars that were supposed to be used for humanitarian aid for Gazans have ...

The system that makes people richer

In this season of giving, I’ll donate to the Doe Fund, a charity that helps drug abusers and ex-cons find purpose in life through work. Doe’s approach doesn’t include many handouts. It’s mostly about encouraging people to work. “Work works!” they say. It does. Most Doe ...

Was 2023 as bad as we thought?

At the end of 2022, key questions swirled about the year to come. We now have all the answers. Would Ukraine win against Russia? Well, that depends on what one means by winning. To have actually defined that would have meant the imposition of measurable accountability rather than endless ...