by jpitney | Sep 1, 2025 | California Politics, Civility
Mark Z. Barabak at LAT: Jim Ross has had a long and fruitful career as a Democratic campaign strategist. Among his victories was electing Gavin Newsom as San Francisco mayor. Tom Ross has enjoyed similar success on the Republican side. He counts Kevin McCarthy’s...
by jpitney | Aug 30, 2025 | Constitution, Economic Policy, Judiciary, Madison, Taxes, Trade
Tony Romm and Ana Swanson at NYT: A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that many of President Trump’s most punishing tariffs were illegal, delivering a major setback to Mr. Trump’s agenda that may severely undercut his primary source of leverage in an expanding...
by jpitney | Aug 29, 2025 | Civility, Higher Education
Samuel Abrams at The Hill: We are losing the everyday language that sustains a free society. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression and NORC at the University of Chicago, previously theNational Opinion Research Center, have just given us a rare and...
by jpitney | Aug 28, 2025 | Civility, Congress, House of Representatives
Thomas Beaumont at AP: One of the few Republican U.S. House members making in-person appearances embarked on a town hall tour of his district to meet with constituents Monday, and a civil conversation broke out. Rep. Mark Alford and an audience of about 100 in west...
by jpitney | Aug 27, 2025 | Civic Education, Civility, Public Service
Kyle Mitchell at WOOD-TV A new $12 million initiative launched by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation is looking to expand civic engagement and education. The Ford50 campaign is looking to increase awareness and civility in politics at a time of great division...
by jpitney | Aug 26, 2025 | Foreign Policy, Israel
Eric R. Mandel and CMC alum Betsy Berns Korn at The Jerusalem Post: Anti-Palestinian Racism is coming to America and a campus near you. But what is it, why now, and why is it so dangerous? APR is the latest evolution of anti-Zionism, rebranded in the language of civil...
by jpitney | Aug 25, 2025 | Claremont McKenna College, Higher Education, Race
Jon Shields at The Washington Monthly: A deeper problem than the campus climate, I suspect, is the curriculum itself, particularly in humanistic fields outside of economics and political science. I fear that the courses in many such disciplines are closing,...
by jpitney | Aug 24, 2025 | Disabilities, Trade
Chase DiBenedetto at Mashable: Adaptive products — often “one of a kind” tech — are considered niche, despite their necessity for swaths of people globally. At large, assistive technologies can be in a regulatory limbo for years before they get into the...
by jpitney | Aug 22, 2025 | Journalism, Journalists, Public Opinion
From the Pew Research Center:
