It is no accident that the Supreme Court made a rare and possibly unprecedented decision to post Trump v. Slaughter and Trump v. Cook online at the same time on Monday. The first decision held that the president has the power to fire agency heads. The second created an exception for the Federal Reserve. Usually, […]
A few years before World War I, the man who I am named for left a remote corner of the sprawling Russian Empire and hopped a steamship across the Atlantic Ocean. It’s lost in family lore and century-old records whether my great-grandfather left Eastern Europe as Alexander Zhdanov, Alexander Zhdanowski, or something else entirely. Yet […]
America’s educational system has clearly failed, judging by the recent comments of 29-year-old lawyer Melat Kiros, who just won a Democratic primary in Colorado...
Critics insist the Trump administration has bungled its response to the devastating earthquakes in Venezuela because of the lack of USAID. But those critics...
The Supreme Court ruled to protect the Fourteenth Amendment clause that gives unrestricted citizenship to virtually all individuals born on American soil. But there...
The 250th anniversary of America’s founding provides an opportunity to reflect on its meaning. For the first time in history, a country was founded on the idea that humans possess inalienable rights and that the purpose of government is to protect those rights. Prior to then, nations had been created through conquest and the growth […]
Several years ago, I flew across the Atlantic Ocean and across countless smaller cities, towns, rivers, and lakes. I came to America to study and to become a scientist. It was a dream come true. All the ingrained formulas and calculations shone with new intensity in my mind’s eye, yet the rest of my new […]
America at 250 is more than a birthday. It is a ledger; a chain of blood, sweat, faith, courage, and generations of Americans choosing the harder right over the easier wrong. Most experiments in self-government fail. They collapse under the weight of corruption, division, debt, invasion, or the rot of people forgetting what freedom requires. […]
