Political correctness strikes again, taking out an overenthusiastic basketball announcer. Public behavior includes not only the acts people engage in, but also the language they use. If a community’s laws regulate acts, the unwritten law of PC —...
Launching missiles against another country is nothing short of an act of war. The Constitution gives Congress the sole authority to declare war, not the president. When he ordered a “surgical” bombing strike against Syria in retaliation for...
Although originally an American phenomenon, nativism has become central to the understanding of the contemporary radical right. They arrived by the thousands in the mid-1750s, immigrants from Württemberg, the Palatinate and Switzerland. Often...
Those China tariffs aren’t surprising. What’s bizarre are the people praising Trump’s recklessness and reviving his political fortunes. By slapping tariffs on Chinese imports, Donald Trump has once again proven to be the...
The US Congress should pass a balanced budget, not a phony balanced budget amendment. On April 12, Republicans in the House of Representatives will stage a vote on an amendment to the US Constitution that pretends to balance the federal budget, but...
