by jpitney | Dec 31, 2024 | Bipartisanship, Congress, Reagan
Jill Lawrence at The Bulwark: “Bipartisan work is as basic as the American covenant, E pluribus unum, out of many, one,” Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Georgia Democrat, said recently on NBC’s Meet the Press. In 2022, he ran a memorable campaign ad about his unlikely work...
by jpitney | Dec 30, 2024 | Business, Regulation
In September, Phil Gramm wrote at The Wall Street Journal: Jimmy Carter, who turns 100 on Oct. 1, doesn’t get enough credit for the quarter-century economic boom from 1983 to 2008 and the underlying resilience of the economy since. Without Mr. Carter’s deregulation of...
by jpitney | Dec 29, 2024 | First Amendment, Free Speech, Public Opinion, Youth
Bruce Mehlman: Gen Z’ers – particularly those born since 2000 – are less likely to support free speech rights for groups with controversial views than Boomers and Gen X’ers” per data from the General Social Survey.
by jpitney | Dec 28, 2024 | Appropriations, Congress, Oversight
Kevin D. Williamson at The DIspatch: “Getting spending under control” is only in part about debt and deficits—as important as those factors are. It also is about making sure that the money we do spend, we spend on things that are useful and productive. And that is why...
by jpitney | Dec 27, 2024 | Journalism, Newspapers, Public Opinion
AP-NORC: Many are feeling the need to limit their news consumption, especially political news. Sixty-five percent of adults have felt the need to limit their media consumption about the government and politics due to information overload, fatigue, or similar reasons...
