Category: Politics

Before we start, let me say that I am not unaware of the hostility toward President Trump that is said to exist in certain quarters. It is my understanding that the vast majority of people who hold elected office and have a D after their names do not, in fact, like him very much. I […]

Three years after the twin shocks of President Trump’s triumph in the Republican primaries and the narrow win for “Leave” in the Brexit referendum, the evidence has never been stronger that the world has entered an era of anti-liberalism. Later this week, voters across Europe go to the polls to vote in EU parliamentary elections […]

Presidential candidate and California senator Kamala Harris made headlines recently after seeming to tie herself in rhetorical knots over questions about Medicare-for-all. In separate statements Harris first said she supported the elimination of private health insurance, and then that she didn’t. The inconsistency can partly be chalked up to the usual limitations of trying to […]

Over the past two decades, education reform has been a major topic of debate and policymaking, from President Bush’s No Child Left Behind bill to President Obama’s Race to the Top initiative. Reforms have generally followed the pattern of adapting mechanisms from the for-profit business world to “fix” supposedly broken aspects of the public education […]

Maybe the Democratic presidential field has gotten too overcrowded. When former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke announced his candidacy back in March, I suggested there was still plenty of room in the field, even though the list of announced and likely candidates had grown to nearly a dozen individuals. “Bring ’em all on,” I wrote. “The […]

There are plenty of things Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson can do that Theresa May probably can’t. Quote the Aeneid from memory in Latin. Tell an interviewer that if he were banished to a desert island he would spend the rest of his life translating Homer. Insist to another that his £250,000 a year salary […]

The Trump administration unveiled plans recently to send as many as 120,000 troops to Iran if American forces are attacked or if work on a nuclear weapons program is resumed. This stunning revelation, in the absence of any real provocation from Tehran, has justifiably caused great alarm for anyone who doesn’t want to see the […]

Abortion is tragic in the strict sense of the term. It’s an act that pits fundamentally irreconcilable absolute rights against each other — the pregnant woman’s right to determine what happens to her own body without state interference against the right to life of the fetus she carries inside her womb. Anyone who adopts an […]