New York’s once vaunted civil-rights tradition is a pitiful shadow of its past self, its premier institutions available for rent if not outright sale. American Federation of Teachers chief...
Team Trump offers a clear vision of border security as indistinguishable from national security, where the last crew treated it as a human-rights issue...
On Wednesday, Jeffrey Seller, producer of Broadway’s smash-hit Hamilton, announced the show would sever its long-standing ties with the Kennedy Center following the Trump administration’s takeover. The dismissal of several administrators caused Seller and Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda to conclude the center had lost its “neutrality” and “spirit of bipartisanship.” It’s a ludicrous suggestion, of […]
While the centralization of the federal government helps to ensure that Americans’ democratic will is implemented by their leaders, it can also be a major hindrance to that goal. Centralization breeds politicization. We are seeing this on a massive scale right now at the beginning of the second Trump administration, including at the FBI with […]
On this International Women’s Day, social media will be flooded with speeches, press releases, and hashtags about “empowerment” and “equity.” The United Nations will host panel discussions and promote another initiative in the name of “gender equality.” But these gestures, performative at best, do nothing to stop or call attention to the violence that defines […]
Over-the-top anti-Trump rhetoric wasn’t exactly effective during President Donald Trump’s first term. But many Democratic lawmakers haven’t learned their lesson and are perpetuating their hysteria and alarmism — this time, with a race-baiting twist. Multiple Democratic members of Congress have in recent weeks suggested that Trump is going to bring back segregation or even slavery. […]
District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser announced this week that the Black Lives Matter mural that defaces what used to be called 16th Street NW leading up to the White House will be obliterated this summer. However, she did not commit to renaming the space or returning it to its previous condition. Any movement by […]
