Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is a smart and well-trained lawyer. One of his best skills is answering a question in a way that sounds reasonable, but if you are familiar with the legalism he is using, the answer would actually be shocking. The murder of 22-year-old nursing student Laken Riley, allegedly by an illegal […]
As states grapple with education challenges such as making up for COVID-19 lockdown-related learning loss and the expiration of federal pandemic aid, they may want to look at how Florida is getting an impressive return on its public education funding. For other states, Florida provides a model for doing more with less by pushing public […]
The Great Communicator was also a terrific compromiser. What made him so terrific was that he knew the difference between compromising one’s deeply held principles (don’t!) and compromising to achieve significant incremental advancement of those principles (yes, do it!). Those are the key lessons from the latest in a masterful series of books on former […]
President Joe Biden has apparently realized that pitching “Bidenomics” is a loser politically, but his White House forgot to tell its media echo chamber. According to an Issues & Insights report, Biden has “ditched” the term, with the report noting Biden and his White House used the term 59 times last July. By last month, […]
For someone who is supposed to be running the United States government, President Joe Biden doesn’t seem to interact much with those working for him or know what they are doing. A few weeks removed from the Pentagon hiding the physical condition of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin from the president, the former chief of […]
There are election-result deniers on the Right, such as former President Donald Trump. There are election-result deniers on the Left, such as Stacey Abrams. But Kari Lake, GOP Senate candidate for Arizona, is also a two-time election denier (Trump’s 2020 loss and her 2022 Arizona gubernatorial race loss). However, this does not appear to bother […]
A federal appeals panel appeared skeptical Monday of the constitutionality of an Affordable Care Act (ACA) provision requiring insurers to cover specific preventive services. Judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans questioned whether the members of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) have the legal power to...
An overwhelming majority of Americans said they believe in-vitro fertilization treatment (IVF) should be legal, according to a new poll. The poll, released Sunday by CBS News/YouGov, found 86 percent of Americans support keeping IVF legal for women, while 14 percent said they believe it should not be legal. The survey was taken Feb. 28-March...
The Biden administration is ramping up urgency around securing a temporary cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war as it faces its own domestic pressures over President Biden’s handling of the conflict. White House officials have aggressively lobbied for a six-week pause in fighting to allow hostages out and to get more aid into Gaza. Both Biden...