Last week, the Trump administration crossed a red line in its unprecedented attack on American higher education. In a letter to Columbia University, the administration laid out a series of sweeping changes that the school must take to reverse the […]
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In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has imagined himself as a kind of American monarch or a powerful president needing a third term to save this nation. With Trump, it is always hard to separate the pure flights of fantasy
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Reading Chief Justice John Roberts’ annual end-of-year report on the federal judiciary is a bit unsettling, and not just because of its enumeration of the very real dangers to this country’s long tradition of judicial independence that we now face.
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Very early on Wednesday morning, after a 15-year hiatus, Indiana got back into the execution business. The lethal injection of Joseph Corcoran happened in near-secret, highlighting a worrying trend in the state that seems designed to keep the public in
Indiana executed a man in near-secret this week. It shouldn’t be that way. Read More »
I am an unabashed admirer of President Joe Biden. He has done a remarkably good job for the American people. But I am deeply disappointed by Sunday night’s pardon of his son Hunter. I respect and admire the president’s devotion
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