John Fetterman accidentally called himself a "lifelong Republican" at the Texas Tribune Festival, sparking laughs before clarifying his Democratic ties.
Young voters are right that the system is failing them, but they're wrong about which system it is: They've experienced a quasi-socialist economy that...
Never in history have single people had access to so many potential romantic partners. A generation ago, most Americans met people through the ordinary institutions of life. They met in person at college or church or were introduced in a coffee shop or bar. Today, a single person can open an app and, within minutes, […]
A tragedy happens. People get hurt. Lives are lost. Then the lawyers start looking around the room. Who can be held responsible? That question sits at the center of a growing problem in American civil litigation. There’s nothing wrong with holding people and companies accountable when they actually cause harm. That’s what the justice system […]
My first patient at Southwest Florida Proton Center was a 11-year-old boy with brain cancer. Proton therapy could aim radiation at his tumor precisely enough to spare the healthy brain tissue around it, but it meant getting him to treatment five days a week, for six weeks straight. Because our center was close to his […]
The stories of the Righteous should be central to what we teach the next generation because remembering evil must also carry a responsibility to recognize and practice goodness. Children deserve to know what evil has done. They also deserve to know the names and choices of people who refused to surrender to it. The Righteous […]
Americans argue endlessly over who should govern. We spend less time asking the prior question: What kind of government are we trying to preserve? The answer should be self-government. What are the alternatives? Rule by someone else — by a monarch, an oligarchy, a bureaucracy, a party, an ideological elite, or simply whichever faction has […]
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has made commercial-driver safety a major priority, tightening the rules governing non-domiciled commercial driver’s licenses and requiring more reliable verification that foreign-domiciled drivers are legally eligible and qualified to operate enormous commercial vehicles on American highways. That raises an important parallel question: If we care about who is operating an 80,000-pound […]
Working families and small businesses are already paying the price of higher interest rates. Mortgage payments are harder to afford. Car financing is more expensive. Business owners are paying more to borrow, invest, and hire. The Federal Reserve has a difficult job and price stability matters, but before it raises rates again, the threshold for […]
Our civil justice system rests on a simple premise: Every claim represents a real person, with a real injury, who chose to seek redress. When that premise fails, everyone pays, beginning with the people who were actually hurt. For decades, the fight over lawsuit abuse has centered on what happens once a case is underway: […]
I run a nonpartisan think-tank, so, for the most part, I don’t offer public opinions because that’s the nature of the job. I’m taking a break from those duties today to let the Albanian Kosovar refugee take the keyboard. The ruling on Sept. 16 by the Kosovo Specialist Chambers, a project run by The Hague, […]
When a government raids LGBT organizations, arrests activists, silences advocates, and invokes religious doctrine to justify persecution, America’s LGBT movement should be among the loudest voices demanding accountability. So, where is the outrage over Turkey? Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is no longer merely attacking LGBT rights rhetorically. His government is putting that ideology into […]
