They Didn’t Read the Bill

by | May 24, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives

Russell Berman at The Atlantic: When Democrats reshaped the American health-insurance system in 2010, Republicans accused them of all manner of legislative foul play: Middle-of-the-night votes. Backroom deals. An enormous, partisan bill jammed through Congress before...

Congress and Presidential Incapacity

by | May 23, 2025 | Biden, Congress, Presidency

Don Wolfensberger at The Hill reflects on the Biden revelations: We know that impeachment is not a valid option, even if Congress had a clue. It only applies to high crimes and misdemeanors. The Constitution’s 25th amendment was designed in part to fill that gap by...

Common Ground

by | May 21, 2025 | Civility, Polarization

A Reagan Library program with Utah Governor Spencer Cox (R) and New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham (D), as they sit in conversation to discuss bi-partisanship, mutual respect, and the value of healthy conflict.  

Fostering Civility on Campus

by | May 18, 2025 | Civility, Higher Education, Uncategorized

Sarah D. Sparks at Education Week: Amid increasingly divisive public discourse, civility has become a sought-after skill for colleges and universities struggling to maintain a rich set of viewpoints on campus, and for employers trying to build diverse workplaces. Now,...

Congressional Dysfunction

by | May 17, 2025 | Uncategorized

Jonah Goldberg at The Dispatch:   I’m happy to concede that our problems have many causes. Still, my answer to the question, “What is one thing you would do to solve—or just improve—American politics and America’s mounting list of crises?” My answer would be,...

“Ceasefire” on C-SPAN

by | May 16, 2025 | Civility

Michael M. Grynbaum at WP: As a young producer at CNN in the 1990s, Sam Feist spent countless hours working on “Crossfire,” one of the first cable news shows to pit partisan pundits against one another. At lunch one day, the co-host Michael Kinsley mused about an...

The Ticking Time Bomb of Debt

by | May 14, 2025 | Budget, Congress, Debt

Congress is getting ready to increase the federal debt. Yuval Levin: Just continuing existing tax policy would drive the federal debt well beyond 200 percent of the size of the economy over the next 30 years, according to the Congressional Budget Office. By that...