The American political landscape continues to feel the aftershocks of President Joe Biden’s announcement that he will not seek a second term. Many questions still linger, including about Biden’s health as well as the state of a Trump–Harris electoral contest. One lingering, longer-term question concerns the future relationship between presidential candidates and political parties. For […]
For Minnesotans, the 2020 riots are still fresh in our memories. We watched in horror as our cities burned and a police precinct was turned into a pile of ashes and rubble, all while our so-called leaders sat on their hands. The ensuing crime surge continues to be a daily reminder of the problem created […]
With the Supreme Court recently expressing clear disapproval of many of the Federal Trade Commission‘s operating procedures, Congress must aggressively steer this key regulatory agency back to its original mission of protecting consumers. When we served in Congress, we relied on the FTC’s challenges to artificial monopolies and predatory business activities to conduct our own […]
One of our wisest philosophers (Homer Simpson) described television as “teacher, mother, secret lover.” Reality television belongs to that final classification, a mistress we can’t quite quit yet also will never introduce to our parents. It is ubiquitous as dirt and as dirty as, well, dirt. Critics have mostly treated it like dirt, too. If […]
KHive. Brat. Coconut-pilled. Unburdened by what has been. If you’re a healthy, sane person who doesn’t spend your every waking moment on the internet, the Kamala Harris discourse is bound to be baffling. The public talked relatively little about the vice president after her failed presidential bid segued into a position in the White House. […]
A summer blockbuster is being panned by scientists for not having enough of an agenda? Say no more. Twisters, a stand-alone sequel to the 1996 film Twister (without the s), arrived in theaters earlier this month to much audience acclaim and big box-office numbers. The film, starring Glen Powell from Top Gun: Maverick, is “a […]
In the space of a week, people tried to take out both candidates for the presidency of the United States. On Saturday, July 13, Thomas Matthew Crooks tried and failed to assassinate former President Donald Trump with a bullet at a rally in Pennsylvania. On Sunday, July 21, a statement on President Joe Biden’s X […]
If ever there were an event about which Americans can be justifiably, sincerely, and perpetually proud, it was surely the Apollo 11 moon landing on July 20, 1969. You remember: Neil Armstrong, Tranquility Base, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” — the whole bit. Yet, in a sign of the perversity […]
In 1933, the English poet W.H. Auden told his friend Stephen Spender, “I entirely agree with you about my tendency to National Socialism, and its dangers.” It’s a surprising confession. He’d later travel to Spain to serve in the Republican medical corps, praising the soon-to-be vanquished loyalists in the Marxisant poem “Spain 1937.” He befriended […]
More than four years after the start of COVID-19 and despite millions of dollars in emergency funding, student learning loss is a major problem. New research from NWEA, a nonprofit research organization, shows students going into high school are a full year behind academically, a disappointing but unsurprising development for experts who have been tracking...