If there's anything we should have learned from the past three-plus decades, it's the importance of character in our leaders. Now that nothing appears to be disqualifying, it's up to we, the people, to rebuild our national values...
For decades, small business policy has been reactionary, endeavoring only to patch up cracks in the Main Street facade, rather than treat start-ups and mom and pops like the powerful futuristic growth engine they can be and truly are...
The answer to the Bermuda Triangle question of macroeconomics: how mom-and-pops and start-ups created nearly two-thirds of new jobs in our country over the last quarter-century+, yet still employ less than half our workforce...
Ron DeSantis believes he stands in the doorway of Florida schools and other institutions, forbidding indoctrination to pass. We think he projecteth too much...
Our democracy would be hard for any of the Founders to recognize, especially Thomas Jefferson, who believed the only "safe repository" for "ultimate power" was--and is--we, the people, a conviction rooted in his fierce faith in the power of education...
They say sunlight is the best disinfectant; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has been demonstrating, to a concerning degree, that artificial light can and often does have the opposite effect...
There are few words in the English language that provide better fodder for oxymorons than "intelligence." And yet it's never been more important to understand what it is...
Back when civics was central to education, "vote early and often" was a good government slogan. Now we need civics early and often to restore good government once more...
"American democracy will work and reform will prove possible only if obligations join rights at center stage." So writes Richard Haass. We agree, and discuss what they should be...
So many of our current disputes between left and right ultimately come down to differing definitions of just one word: freedom. Which is not surprising because, with apologies to Kris Kristofferson, it means *everything* to lose...
