by jpitney | Mar 12, 2020 | Congress
From the Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress: Nine out of 10 House members don’t agree on much, but they do agree it’s past time to make an array of modernizing changes to the place they work. So the vote was 395-13 on Tuesday to...
by jpitney | Mar 9, 2020 | Economic Policy, Foreign Policy
Clark Packard, Scott Lincicome, Kimberly Clausing, and Mary Lovely at The Bulwark: Returning to the TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership] is the most expeditious way to ensure that U.S. exporters face a level playing field with their competitors in pivotal...
by jpitney | Mar 8, 2020 | Civility, Freedom of Press, Presidency
President Gerald R. Ford, Remarks at the Dedication of the Anderson Independent and Anderson Daily Mail Building in Anderson, South Carolina, October 19, 1974: Now I happen to differ with those who categorize the journalists I know, and others, as a different kind of...
by jpitney | Mar 7, 2020 | Higher Education
The Harvard Crimson reports on a poll of the university’s faculty: An overwhelming majority of faculty members who took the survey broadly characterized their political leanings as “liberal” or “very liberal” — forty-one percent of faculty responded they are...
by jpitney | Mar 7, 2020 | Uncategorized
Hon. David Dreier presents certificates to the winners of the Dreier Roundtable Op-Ed competition (left to right): Cameron Hendrickson, Josie Savaria-Watson, Nandeeni Patel, Amanda Kandasamy, and Talia Bromberg (not pictured: Yara Ismael).. Faculty: Terril Yue Jones,...
