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The celebrated author Ta-Nehisi Coates is not reliable regarding things he’s spent considerable time thinking about here in the U.S., so it’s presumably a mistake to put much stock in his newly formed opinions about matters he barely knows anything about.
He proved as much in an ...
Let’s make a deal. American parents stop harassing schools over library books that deal sympathetically with differences in sexual orientation. And America’s schools stop withholding information about a student’s preference from the parents.
First, the ugly clashes over offerings at ...
I’m worried about my children. Not my biological ones — they’re fine — but my students, whom I think of as my children because I have taught them and counseled them and nurtured them for years.
They are at a time of their lives when they’re trying to figure out the meaning of social ...
While campaigning in New Hampshire, Nikki Haley was asked about the surge of migrants at the border. “When I’m president,” the former Republican governor of South Carolina said, “we’re going to stop catch-and-release, and we’re going to start catch-and-deport.”
No president ...
Every presidential campaign raises nagging questions of various sorts.
With the 2024 election barely more than a year away, one overarching question haunts Democrats: Why the heck isn’t President Joe Biden doing better in the polls?
The fear and the hand-wringing from my friends and ...
In one day of savagery, Hamas brought the world’s oldest hatred into the mainstream. The upwelling of antisemitism around the globe, and especially in the United States, mocks the naivety of those who imagined that the oldest hatred was mostly in the past, that Israel could be a normal ...