Dental education has taken an important step back toward first principles. This summer, the Commission on Dental Accreditation, the body entrusted with establishing accreditation standards for dental education across the country, did what it needed to do, moving beyond temporarily suspending several of its diversity, equity, and inclusion requirements to removing them from the accreditation […]
According to a recent poll, almost half of people under 30 say they would vote for a socialist presidential candidate. Conservatives can respond by pointing to socialism’s dismal historical record. They would be right — and they would be missing the point. Conservatives should not assume young people are embracing socialism because they have been […]
Lawyers, like boxers, are forged through adversity, not affirmation. At West Point, I boxed on the women’s boxing team. I spent hours drilling footwork, shadowboxing, and stepping into the ring to spar. I learned I was a terrible boxer, but I loved the challenge of testing my body under pressure and learning, albeit painfully, from […]
In the name of making higher education more transparent, Congress is attempting to codify an unprecedented data-collection scheme. Instead of fixing our education system, it would be a disastrous, unnecessary breach of privacy. In an age of Flock cameras, digital assistants, and artificial intelligence embedded into every device and every app, people increasingly feel like […]
The most useful warning about military automation last week did not come from a drone swarm, a command center, or a classified exercise. It came from the freezer aisle of a base commissary. Beginning Aug. 26, military installations across the United States reported refrigeration failures. At Fort Huachuca, Arizona, the commissary said all its freezers […]
Bloomberg announced last week that it is ending the health benefit it provides employees. Beginning in 2027, employees are being asked to shoulder more of the cost of their health insurance without gaining ownership of the policy for which they’re paying. Bloomberg isn’t alone. Becker’s Payer Issues reports that 51% of employers are “likely or […]
On the presidential campaign trail in 1908, a man at the front of a crowd hurled a cabbage at Republican candidate William Howard Taft. He missed, despite the fact that Taft, who won the election, was a huge target, weighing around 300 pounds. The soon-to-be president coolly shot back: “I see that one of my […]
A former Virginia Democratic Party finance chair and 2024 DNC delegate was handed a decade behind bars for child sexual abuse material and other child sex abuse allegations.