by jpitney | Apr 16, 2025 | Civil Rights, Constitution, Due Process
Robert P. George on Twitter: Every single one of us has a profound interest in government at every level strictly observing due process of law. All of us should be deeply concerned by any violation of anyone’s due process rights, whether in criminal or...
by jpitney | Apr 15, 2025 | California Politics, Crime, Transportation
Robert Leiwis at CaMatters: Because California has no centralized court system and records aren’t online, we then traveled to courthouses up and down the state to read through tens of thousands of pages of files. Once we had defendants’ names and other information, we...
by jpitney | Apr 14, 2025 | Public Service, Violence
Lex Harvey, Zoe Sottile and Ali Main, CNN: Pennsylvania State Police have charged a Harrisburg man they say broke into Gov. Josh Shapiro’s residence early Sunday and started a fire while Shapiro and his family were sleeping. Shapiro, his wife Lori, their four...
by jpitney | Apr 13, 2025 | Free Speech, Higher Education
At AEI, Jenna Silber Storey and Benjamin Storey discuss ways of improving viewpoint diversity on college campuses: Short-term: Involve PhDs and other professionals currently working outside academia in research and teaching. Many right-of-center PhDs find more...
by jpitney | Apr 12, 2025 | Journalism, Journalists
Carol Admire at Florida Weekly: Don’t shoot the messenger. For 32 minutes, Tom Marquardt’s colleagues at the Capital Gazette in Annapolis, Maryland, experienced that grim reality in its most harrowing form. Newspapers are accustomed to facing shots of criticism...
by jpitney | Apr 11, 2025 | Congress, House of Representatives
Don Wolfensberger at The Hill: Back in the old days, if the House Rules Committee had four bills before it seeking a special rule for floor consideration, the committee would grant one special rule for each. In modern times, the committee, in order to save on time...
by jpitney | Apr 10, 2025 | Debate, Higher Education
Robert Maranto, Sally Satel, Catherine Salmon, and Lee Jussim at AEI discuss their new book, The Free Inquiry Papers Key Points Free inquiry is essential for democracy, science, and individual justice. Free inquiry in the United States is under threat. Today’s taboos...
by jpitney | Apr 9, 2025 | Economic Policy
Starting to think that in order to unravel this mess, we might need some sort of general agreement on trade and tariffs, perhaps housed under some sort of world trade organization. If we want to work closely with our neighbors, might I suggest some sort of north...
by jpitney | Apr 8, 2025 | Trade
Michael Strain at AEI: If your goal is to reduce the trade deficit, then your goal must also be reducing flows of foreign investment into the United States. When the US consumes and invests more than it produces, it must be running a current account deficit. To...
by jpitney | Apr 7, 2025 | Journalism, Journalists, Violence
Previous posts have discussed threats and actual violence against journalists. Megan Lebowitz at NBC: Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., suggested on X this weekend that journalists would write “less false stories” if violence were still used to handle...
