by jpitney | Jan 28, 2026 | Civility, Colorado, Judiciary, Law
Michael Karlik at Colorado Politics The Colorado Supreme Court’s Civil Rules Committee overwhelmingly rejected a proposal last week to create an enforceable “civility code” for lawyers and legal paraprofessionals, which would allow judges to quickly impose corrective...
by jpitney | Jan 27, 2026 | Civic Education, civic virtue, Claremont McKenna College, Lincoln
Claremont McKenna College student Dhriti Jagadish writes at Persuasion: On July 10, 1858, Abraham Lincoln reminded Americans that half the country couldn’t trace a connection to the signers of the Declaration of Independence by blood or by soil. That half is now the...
by jpitney | Jan 26, 2026 | Congress, Ethics, Federalist, House of Representatives
Don Wolfensberger: All of the major ethics reforms of the past have succeeded because members realized that their reputations and that of Congress depended on agreeing to credible remedies that transcend the partisan divide. In Federalist 57, James Madison wrote that...
by jpitney | Jan 24, 2026 | Economic Policy, Trade
Katherine Li at Business Insider: The CEO of Amazon, Andy Jassy, told CNBC in an interview with reporter Becky Quick at the World Economic Forum in Davos that vendors are running out of stockpiled goods imported ahead of Trump’s tariffs, and that consumers will...
by jpitney | Jan 22, 2026 | California Politics, Education
Dan Walters: Overall, California’s public school test scores not only fare poorly in comparison to those in other states, but have lost ground in some key areas, as latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress revealed in September. In...
