While convenient, the practice distances citizens from the financial workings of their government, diluting their sense of participation and oversight.
The Biden administration has reached an agreement to provide up to $6.4 billion in direct funding for Samsung Electronics to develop a computer chip manufacturing and research cluster in Texas.
“Don’t,” President Joe Biden replied when asked for his message to Iran during a press conference Friday afternoon, followed by a lamentable “showdown” glare. It was the second time he’d used the word in an attempt at dramatic understatement in the aftermath of the Oct. 7 attacks on Israel. Vice President Kamala Harris has also […]
In 1945, three years before Israel’s founding, the Arab League passed a boycott of Jewish businesses in Mandatory Palestine. It was a move that hearkened directly to German precedents of the decade before. In 1976, the U.S. Congress passed anti-boycott legislation that made American companies’ participation in such boycotts illegal, under threat of fines up […]
Earlier this month, the organizers of the Emerald City Hoedown in Seattle kicked out a women’s country line dance team because their American flag shirts made some audience members feel “triggered and unsafe.” The incident made me wonder if Fairfax County School Board member Melanie Meren was in the audience. In May 2023, Meren, now […]